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Need new cpu!

Follow Question Posted by Zangetsu on Aug 10, 2010

Yesterday my gaming rig decided to die on me and after a couple of hours of tinkering the problem was found. CPU - dead. Luckily nothing else, I may have oveclocked it a bit too much :>. So I need a new one. Please suggest me something for LGA 1156 socket. Mu budget is limited to around $200-220. Thanks!

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2 Immortal on Aug 11, 2010

Level 9 In your budget range I can recommend you Intel i5-655K its retail is 216$ working on 3.2GHz with 4MB Cache.

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3 Zangetsu on Aug 11, 2010

Level 3 It seems nice, but what will the $40 over the i5-650 give me. The specs of the CPUs look identical.

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4 Golfman on Aug 11, 2010

Level 3 I recommend you i5-760, it costs 205$, has 4 cores and 8MB cache....so for what do you think to use the new CPU....this will determine your choice :)

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5 Smoth3r3d on Aug 11, 2010

Level 2 The only difference between the two is that i5-655K has Virtualization and Intel Trusted Execution technology...it definately isn`t worth giving 40$ more for that...so if i were you i`d buy i5-650

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