>bought a new pc
>dank meme processor
>games are too boring nowadays
>have all of this computing power yet uses it to browse /g/ and facebook only.
What can I do with this fucking processor /g/?
>>54300073
rendering
>>54300073
>Put into pooper
>Reinstall
>Repeat with all componets
>Shitpost with your pro shitposting setup
>>54300073
Sell it and buy a $130 refurb netbook with a bay trail atom and 2 GB RAM.
I run Universe@home, Seti@home, and a couple other distributed computing projects.
Uses my spare CPU cycles and all I pay is the ~$0.30 a day more I pay for electricity.
>>54300073
Do some distributed computing. Avoid Folding@Home, they've gotten rather dickish lately.
>>54300073
buy an oculus rift and enjoy 4k vr porn
>>54300429
Did exactly this and slapped a 750ti in an optiplex 3020. All my needs are met.
Learn FEA and run multiphysics sims
You can mail it to me, for starters.
>>54300073
Overclock it to hell, see how fast you can get it before it dies.
>>54300073
>i7 6700k
>h100i
>2 r9 390
>z170 mobo
>32gb of ram
>corsair rmx 1000watts psu
did i fuck up?
>>54300490
What did they do that was so dickish? I was thinking about using Folding@Home
>>54300073
Do you like PS2 games?
Because you have a high end processor so software rendering and avx2 help you run basically any.
You can also load Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and play around with neural-style.
You can also design circuit boards and auto routing will just breeze by.
You can also fill it with virtual machines.
You can rice Linux and brag.
You can really just do a lot of creative shit instead of wasting time with video games.
You probably wont even have to upgrade till the next big change in computing architecture if you don't really play games.
Really OP, just use your fucking head, it shows with how you spend your money.
>>54300073
Sound like you've just grown out of video games. Sell it and find a new hobby.
Also, please don't ever post again.
>2011
>/g/ falls for the 2500k meme
>Tells every faggot to buy it at almost every price point
>tells people to even skimp on GPU regularly to make sure you get this chip no matter what
>Bully and shout down anyone who challenges this group think
>People to this day are maxing out games requirements
> Bu many never have seen games maxed out except briefly 5 years ago because they paid double what they needed for a CPU but got a mid tier GPU
Its what /g/ does to people.
>>54301884
the 2500k was at a perfect price point even on launch day. You could fit it in an $800 build and still manage a mid range discreet GPU.
The fact it's still able to max out almost every game at 1080p still to this day if you have kept recent on GPU upgrades anyway, just shows how good of a buy the 2500k really was.
Most based CPU intel has released since the Q6600.
compiling
>>54301918
>250 bucks for x3 the CPU power needed for literally years
>On a 800 dollar build
Keep the meme alive
>>54301516
Memest build
>>54301516
Cuck
>>54301958
A $200-300 GPU upgrade a year or two after you bought it and another one last year would have kept you gaming at full 1080p for the past 5 years for under $1500.
>>54301884
I'm still running a 2500K and I have seen literally no reason to upgrade on the horizon.
If I hadn't skimped so hard on my motherboard, and had I actually got around to buying a CPU cooler, I would have never upgraded from my 2500k.
Now that I've made a proper 6700k build, I can't imagine upgrading more than the storage in the next 8 or so years.
>>54302028
>Now that I've made a proper 6700k build, I can't imagine upgrading more than the storage in the next 8 or so years.
I will get a GPU upgrade when Pascal comes out, but this is where I am at as well, and I just got a new 5TB drive the other week, so i'm good on storage for at least 6-12 months.
>>54301995
>Hey person who wants a good mid range gaming PC now!
>get shitter performance now so in YEARS LATER you can get incremental upgrades a bit easier
2500kmeme is love
2500kmeme is life
>>54302011
I believe the only thing wrong with the 2500k now is its under powered for VR.
>>54302108
>>2500kmeme is love
>2500kmeme is life
so what was a better buy at the time then since you seem to have all the answers. And if you say AMD just know I wont even bother to reply.
I have a question for ya'll. I recently got an Asus X540 laptop, as a gift. The cpu is pretty ass. It's a Intel Celeron N3050. Can I upgrade this laptop to a better cpu and what should I upgrade it to, if I can?
>>54301918
>q6600
>based
the q6600 was also a $500 CPU. the real based CPU of the time was the e8400
>>54302135
yeah but if you had a Q6600 you could have held out until just the past year or two, hell there are still a few people using them, though generally OC'd to 3.5Ghz+
>>54302132
very few laptops allow upgrading the CPU, and because of this laptop CPUs tend to be fairly expensive to buy aftermarket. Further, most laptops don't have a BIOS that supports more than one or two CPUs, and on lower end Laptops that only come with 1 CPU SKU, they probably only work with that CPU.
Also, some mobile CPUs are soldered directly to the motherboard.
Basically you're shit out of luck.
>>54300475
>wasting cpu cycles and electricity for 2 of the fakest space projects
Good gooy
>>54302125
What a fucking stupid question.
Any cheap CPU with a mobo bundle on sale at the time over 100$usd or so.
And i3 2100 would fucking work today for just about fucking everything Id bet at or near high settings for fucks sake. You are fucking deluded if you think the the 2500k was for anything but wasting money, Multi GPU setups expect for a very narrow selection of games that ran like shit on everything.
And yes, Often AMD phenom IIs at the time had killer combos because they where so unpopular because of shitty consumer memery, Stores everywhere tried to dump their AMD stock with sweet deals. They consistently had amazing performance for the dollar and never actually had any issues with gaming until you spend many hundreds on SLI setups.
I said AMD, You can stop memeing at me now.
>>54300073
Encode video.
>>54301516
>>54301400
This or CFD
>>54300073
become a tripfag and use it to find the ultimate tripcode.
>>54301794
380 usd to play ps2 games.. ayy lmao.
You buy an modded ps3 for 80$ that plays both ps2 and ps3 games.
LIke one anon already said, install BOINC
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
Subscribe to whatever you feel like it, like CERN.
Folding at Home or Boinc.
Donate your clock cycles to science!
>>54301516
Overkill on the Ram and PSU. The rest is pretty beast.
>>54301516
What a POS. My work stations has 2 x Xeon E5's (32 threads), 512 GB SSD, 2 x 2TB 10k RPM disks in RAID1, some NVIDIA GPU and 128 GB RAM.
>>54302158
That's not true at all. Ex q6600 owner here. When I upgraded to 2500k the performance difference was fucking massive, both gaming and everyday desktop usage, because q6600 single threaded performance is shit. The q6600 was already bottlenecking my shitty mid end 2011 gpu. Also it didn't overclock for shit unless you got quite lucky
>>54305556
what was it clocked at? I had my Q6600 until about 4 months ago.
>>54302135
The Q6600 was as expensive as the i5-6600K is now.
>>54301516
>32gb of ram
You only needed 16gb or 8gb if you don't play games on it shiiiet.
>>54302222
>dual core
You know there are some games that literally won't run on dual core CPUs, right?
>>54307367
there was a reason I didn't reply to him anon, best to just let the stupid to themselves.
>>54300073
>bought a new intel processor
>worse performance in a particular game
what can I really do about this, anons? is there some software magic I can perform, or perhaps a blood sacrifice?
>>54307466
What game
>>54307475
planetside 2
it's CPU intensive and pretty badly optimised, but I'm getting far worse performance than I was getting with the older AMD I was using before
since everything else seems to run fine, there's something not right with planetside
>>54307500
what CPU did you used to have and what CPU do you have now?
Did the GPU or resolution change?
run mty_cl and get a funny tripcode
>>54307518
FX 6300 to i5 6600K
The monitor and GPU have stayed the same, and playing around with the graphics settings seems to have no impact. I can jerk around on ultra or potato, little difference
>>54307530
this is actually one of the only good suggestions ITT
>>54307466
I've had exactly the same sort of problem, there seem to be a few similar stories on various forums, so I'd say just clench your butthole and hope that DBG tear themselves away from construction long enough to do something about the problem
>>54305615
2.4ghz. Highest I could get it was 2.7ghz. I had and unlucky one.
>>54309095
That's almost unbelievably unlucky and makes me suspect you just had a cheap shitty motherboard without voltage control.
Q6600s would hit 3Ghz on a stock cooler for fucks sake.
>>54300073
Bitcoin mining
>>54300073
Compile compilers
>>54300073
Install Gentoo.
>tfw brough a i7 2600k
>tfw will never ever upgrade
feels good
