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I keep seeing this processor come up in conversations, and am genuinely curious. Let's say you were building a machine from scratch, to be used for prosumer content creation and gaming. Right now on pcpartpicker, the total platform price difference between a 5930K / non-ECC DDR4 system and a...

Thanks, everybody. Looks like it's the 5820K with regular DDR4 for me. At least in my usage scenario, maybe all this worrying about Xeons and ECC memory is for nothing. Heck, I've been running a 2500K with the same two sticks of DDR3 for five years, and it's been absolutely rock solid. Thanks...

Hello everyone. I am trying to decide between an E5-1650 v3 and a 5820K for an upcoming workstation build, and would love some advice. Short version: the performance and price difference(s) do not really matter that much to me, nor do the extra PCIe lanes; what matters is stability and...

Many thanks for the helpful replies, Danbuscus25, CTurbo, and mrmez. This is just the info I needed. Looks like I'll be sticking with the 2500K for the time being! I never thought that this processor would be so long-lived, but it's still going very strong.

Hi, everybody. I'm about to move from a 1080p to a 1440p 144 Hz monitor for gaming, and am upgrading my video card to do so (GTX 570 - 980 Ti). I built this machine in 2011, and am wondering whether the CPU (i5-2500K) will be able to keep up. It's running at stock speeds on air at the moment...