Benchmarks – Overclocked to 4.80 Ghz stable
You want more? OK how about we up the multiplier to 48 to give us a CPU speed of 4.80 GHz! This was the highest stable and reliably boot-able speed we were able to attain in testing. The CPU averaged about 40C/104F doing basic word processing and web browsing.
AIDA64 v1.50.1230
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| CPU Queen – 1st
[2600K] 59980 vs 45325 [2500K] |
CPU PhotoWorxx – 1st
[2600K] 80028 vs 77887[2500K] |
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| CPU ZLib – 1st
[2600K] 372.7 MB/s vs 279.8 MB/s [2500K] |
CPU AES – 1st
[2600K] 557025 vs 585860[2500K] |
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| CPU Hash – 5th
[2600K] 2872 MB/s vs 2779 MB/s [2500K] |
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Still gaining ground in the AIDA64 suite at 4.80 GHz over-clocked! Interestingly the OC 2600K loses ground to the OC 2500K in the CPU AES test.
PCMark Vantage x64
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| How the test was setup to run | Results – 14031 Marks |
The PCMark test shows steady performance increases over stock speed, another successful plus for the i7-2600K. The 2600K overclock to 4.80 GHz gains ~1800 Marks in the PCMark Vantage test suite over stock speed.
PerformanceTest v7.0
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| PassMark Rating – 2885.0
Stock 3.40 GHz = 2297.2 [+25%] 4.0 GHz OC’d = 2621.1 [+10%] |
CPU Rating – 12648.2
Stock 3.40 GHz = 9390.8 [+35%] 4.0 GHz OC’d = 11658.9 [+8%] |
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Detailed CPU comparison to i5 2500K, i7-2600K Stock, i7-2600K OC 4.4 The OC Core i7 2600K is in green |
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The 2600K beats out the competition and continues to show marked performance increases across the board with each step up the over-clock.
SiSoftware Sandra 2011c
The i7-2600K screams in all the Sandra benchmarks with steady increases over stock speed across the board.
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2600k @ 3.6, Turbo booster to 4 gigahertz, Msi P67a-gd65, Corsair Vengence 1600 8 gigs(1.5), Msi gtx 560 ti Frozr 2 overclocked. Very awesome system! Plays everything I throw at it! This system will last for years!