Is the Intel i7 2600K still the best deal for CPUs right now?

[Josh Burgess]

Hey, guys. I'm thinking about building a new pc soon and looking at parts. It looks like the i7 2600K has the best performance for the price right now. Would you argree?

Does anyone here know if Intel is releasing anything new in the near future that maybe I should wait for?

 

[sprack]

Yes at the moment. Ivy Bridge won't be out till February and that's just a die shrink on Sandy Bridge.

 

[AD Chaos]

From what I've researched, yeah, by far.

The mobos for it don't support as much RAM I think (as with more expensive processors), but @16GB is still very much ok for VSTi work (and last I've heard, some soft and/or hardware was not yet up to the task of efficiently handling +memory?)

BTW DDR3 is supposed to keep on going cheaper at least till year's end (w DDR4 appearing on 2014)

 

[ulverine]

Great CPU. The mobo that I have can hold up to 32GB of ram (I only need 8 in mine, at the moment).

 

[arv_foh]

I put an i5 2500k overclocked to 4.2 GHz in my new hackintosh build and it's pretty goddamn fast

 

[ratsapprentice]

As has already been said, yes.
AFAIK Z68 boards can be used with large amounts of ram.