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The Core i5-2500k system in this review is based around the ASRock P67 Extreme4 motherboard, highlighted earlier.
While Intel's reference heatsinks are more than adequate for many users, Noctua sent us several of their NH D14 coolers for this review. This is the best air cooler on the market, bar none. It can cause some issues with the fitting of oversized memory modules however.
No problems mounting on the ASRock P67 Extreme4 motherboard, with enough clearance on the CPU socket for a perfect fitting. I generally mount this cooler in a vertical position to suit a more natural airflow. This obviously depends on the chassis, because if it doesn't have a top mounted fan then this isn't ideal.
Corsair sent us an 8GB kit of their new Vengeance memory which runs at 1600mhz at 9-9-9-24 timings. It remained rock solid throughout our testing, helped in part by the radical heatspreader. It fits under the Noctua NH D14, if used in the outer two channel slots.
System validation is available over here.
Throughout testing, the 2500K temperatures never exceeded 40c under load.
Wow, those are mega processors. have to get me one
Great article and they really are good improvements. poor amd 🙁
These are certainly impressive, especially considering the price points they have achieved, which I certainlyw asnt expecting.
Compared to the last generation they have certainly delivered much faster processors. I wasnt expecting such huge gains
That ASRock fatal1ty board looks stunning doesnt it ? Very impressive overall platform from everyone involved.
Thumbs up from me. waiting in line like everyone else for my chip now 🙂
Those intel boards are really nice designs, they seem to getting better and better as the years and releases continue.
Well I had almost bought a 1100T from AMd, and now I really don’t know what to do 🙁 these are so damn good and the price points are excellent. the 1100T costs around the same as the 2600K and it wont really go past 4.3ghz.
There is a clear reason Intel are market leaders, and this is a good showcase of why.
Excellent, count me in when I get the funds up.
AMD need to answer this with something good in 2011, but I am not sure they can anymore. I remember the good old days of FX processors when they led the way. whatever happened 🙁
not that much faster than the 2010 core cpu’s people who say they are are complete idiots on avg perormance increase is about 10%
Francis, you’re completely wrong, it’s not that much faster at all, it’s anywhere between -5( meaning slower) to +10 as john already stated