Reusing my i7 2600S in new build, yes or no?

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I'm looking into building a mid to high end rig to upgrade my older HP elite I don't really intend to OC so I thought my 2600s should work fine in a new rig and save me some $$. I wanted to make sure that a GTX 970 would not get bottle necked. and what is the best MoBo I can get for this old gal. Or am i better off buying a new processor? I was looking at the i5 series but without OC they seemed to be on par with my i7
 
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Certainly not. Intel Core i7 2600S isn't so powerful that it can handle a 970 as its an second generation Sandy Bridge CPU. Even if it does, games will lag and stutter on it. So I suggest you buying an Intel Core i5 4690k. It is as powerful as an i7 4770k with latest Intel HD Graphics 4600 loaded and its also a fourth generation processor. Good luck bro. :)
 
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smeezekitty, i7 2600S is an 2nd generation CPU loaded with Intel HD Graphics 2000 and based on Sandy Bridge Architecture. And i5 4690k is loaded with Intel HD Graphics 4600 + it's an Haswell processor. So it will help to get better frames per seconds while playing high end games.
 
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Smeezekitty was right, and zbrauny should not listen to you. Yes the i7-2600S has Intel HD Graphics 2000 and an i5 4690k has Intel HD Graphics 4600. The problem is that this makes absolutely no difference and is completely irrelevant. He is planning to use a GTX 970 GPU, and that means he won't be using the iGPU so regardless which he would use, the iGPU being Intel HD Graphics 2000 and Intel HD Graphics 4600 will be disabled. It literally will make no difference at all.

As for Sandy Bridge vs. Haswell, buying a Haswell if he has an i7 Sandy Bridge is a huge waste of money. Ivy Bridge was about 5% faster than Sandy Bridge, and Haswell is all of 3% faster than Ivy Bridge. So that means buying a CPU that would match it clock for clock would give around an 8% performance boost. So if you disable Hyper-threading and compare the i7-2600s at stock speed with an i7-4690k at stock speed, you would see that the i7-4690k is only 10% faster. Then you are completely overlooking hyperthreading which gives about a 30% performance boost, ie, the i7-2600s at stock speed is about 20% faster than the i5-4690k. Which means in order to get the same performance of an i7-2600s out of an i5-4690k you would need to overclock the i5-4690k to at least 4.6Ghz. If you are able to do that, then in some scenarios you would have a faster performance from the i5, but not always.

Long story short, buying an i5-4690k would be the equivalent of trading your 2011 car that gets 40 miles per galleon and has a max speed of 150mph, for a 2013 car that gets 30 miles per galleon and can only drive at a max speed of 120mph. It would be paying money for slower performance. This isn't even paying attention to the fact that the Hasewell CPU has a TDP of 88w and thus consumes more electricity, while the i7-2600S has a TDP of only 65 and thus not only runs cooler but also consumes less electricity.

Do not buy a Hasewell based system if you have a Sandy Bridge i7.
 
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Don't listen to anyone!

In terms of overall gaming performance, the Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz is massively better than the Intel Core i7-2600S 4-Core 2.8GHz when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.

The Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz was released over three years more recently than the Core i7-2600S 4-Core, and so the Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz is likely to have far better levels of support, and will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the Core i7-2600S 4-Core when running the latest games.

Thus, the Intel Core i5 is known as "The Devil's Canyon" in gaming world. :)

Intel Core i5 4690k will handle Assassin's Creed Unity at Ultra without lags but Intel Core i7 2600S will handle it at medium settings at 1280x1024 resolution only.
 
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Another excellent reason not to listen to you, you don't know the clock speed of the CPUs you are talking about.
i7-2600s Max clock speed 3.8Ghz
http://ark.intel.com/products/52215/Intel-Core-i7-2600S-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz
i5-4690k Max clock speed 3.9Ghz
http://ark.intel.com/products/80811/Intel-Core-i5-4690K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

Yes that is using Turbo, but Intel CPUs maintain turbo speeds almost constantly when required, such as when playing games they will be running within 100Mhz of each other. So again if you have hyper-threading disabled then yes the i5-4690k would be a little bit better, just a little. Though most games now days use more than 4 threads, meaning any time 5 or more threads are used, which if you have lots of stuff open in the background on your PC it will be, the i7 gains massive performance improvements over the i5.

You think the i5 will have better support? You do realize that they are both x86-64 CPUs using an architecture that is almost identical to each other? On top of that, as for which one is being used programs have no idea outside of how fast work is done, it treats them the same. No amount of optimization can be done.

That is a member of a series of CPUs Intel named "The Devil's Canyon" which include an i7 also. That i5 isn't known as just "The Devil's Canyon" and it isn't in the gaming world, its in the entire world cause thats what the company that made it named it.
http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/81246/Devils-Canyon

Show me a single source showing the i7-2600s can only run that game on medium with that low of a resolution? Its absolutely insane, and I should probably leave now because nothing makes me more angry than completely and utter lack of intelligence.
 
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Totally wrong, you shouldnt be allowed to post such false information.

I wish the downvote option was working.
 
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Please stop posting, you clearly do not know what you are talking about.

1) Resolution and most graphical settings are irrelevant to CPU, this is all GPU based performance settings.
2) Sandybridge i7s (and i5s) were a huge performance milestone, they can still play next gen games just fine. Improvments since sandybridge have been small and incremental.

Please show us a game that a i7 2600 cannot handle.
 
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Yes this is the part we are wanting you to stop telling people, because you are wrong. The i7-2600s won't have any problems playing games made in 2014 or 2015 on resolutions up to 4k, at least on high settings. The GPU will be the hold back for doing that, not the CPU. If the CPU would be the part holding it back, the i5 would hold it back more than the i7, as new games are moving to use 8-threads to take advantage of the new game systems and 8-thread CPUs.

There is nothing you are saying about computer technology or games that has any validity at all.
 
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In terms of overall gaming performance, the Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz is massively better than the Intel Core i7-2600S 4-Core 2.8GHz when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.
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No, it isn't.
The Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz was released over three years more recently than the Core i7-2600S 4-Core, and so the Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz is likely to have far better levels of support, and will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the Core i7-2600S 4-Core when running the latest games.
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Haswell is only slightly faster than Sandy. And the clock is only 100MHz faster.
A few percent gain at most.
Intel Core i5 4690k will handle Assassin's Creed Unity at Ultra without lags but Intel Core i7 2600S will handle it at medium settings at 1280x1024 resolution only.
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This is wrong. And lowering resolution actually shifts the bottleneck from
the GPU towards the CPU!
 
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