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welcome back to harbor unboxed for today's video I'm dusting off my old sandy brooch core i7 2670 TX 1080i graphics card to see how well it holds up and all the latest and greatest gaming titles actually more precisely I want to see how much of a step forward the new core i7 87 or ek is when compared to the seven-year-old quad core we know that the 22-ton arcade still has game but for those rockin the old quad core next you could finally be the year they find themselves in need of that long-awaited upgrade the gtx 980ti might be the pinnacle of gaming right now but before you reach at this time next year there's likely going to be something even better and as a result you can expect mid range GPUs to have a little more poke for testing the core i7 2670 dolls on hand each of which has been tested using three different quality presets the focus here will be on the 1080p resolution but we also have some 1440p results as well though of course these are more GPU bound but many of you seem more interested in those results so I have included them recently I compared the fourth generation Core i7 4770k under the same test conditions and found that while still hanging in there remarkably well even with the mighty GTX 10 atti so will the much older second-generation 2600 K proved just as impressive let's jump in the benchmarks to find out shall we first up we have ashes of the singularity see I said it right I bet you weren't expecting that so ahead of the box the 2600 K delivered these same 69 FPS minimum and 77 fps average and that made it a little over 40% slower than the 8700 cave surprisingly overclocking the 2600 K to 4 point 8 gigahertz only placed it on par with the stock 4770k and while that did allow for very playable performance it was still around 30% slower than the 8700 K now increasing the visual quality settings with the extreme preset that didn't really change much here the 2600 K was 28% slower than 87 okay so it's still trailed by a rather significant margin now it's time to get all crazy I feel like they oversold this preset but anyway here we have a mostly GPU bound scenario though even so out of the box the twenty-sixth enrique takes a beating for the average frame rate overclocked performance was boosted by 22 percent 28 fps and now the 2600 K is only 9% slower than the majority of these seventh and eighth generation CPUs then finally the last ashes of the benchmark test was conducted at 1440p and here the margins close up a little more but even so the overclocked 2600 K was still around 6% slower than the more modern Intel processors right so next up we have the battlefield 1 results and boy has the core i7 2618 this one at least when used in the medium quality settings at 1080p with a mighty powerful graphics card under those conditions it does look pretty slow but then it is a 7 year old CPU so keeping that in mind it's actually quite impressive anyway here it was again a roughly 40% slower than the 87 and ok and even when overclocked struggles to match the stock 4770k increasing the visual quality settings with the high preset doesn't really change much the 2600 K is almost 40% slower than the 8700 ok and once overclocked again falls just short of the stock 4770k which is quite a surprising result I have to say even with the ultra quality settings enabled the 2600 K still gets completely trampled here it was 35% slower than the stock 8700 K that's it with both CPU is overclocked a margin is reduced to 22% for the average though I should note the 87 RK is GPU limited for this test the 1% low result is a better indicator of true performance and here the 2600 K was 30% slower it's worth pointing out though that most gtx 980ti earners they're probably not that interested in playing battlefield 1 at such a low resolution 1440p certainly seems more appropriate here we find an even more GPU limit scenario as a result the 2600 K was just 9% sold nearly 700 K when comparing the average frame rate once both CPU is what overclocked of course these are the 1% low results that we probably should focus on in here the 2600 K while still 21% and that's certainly a noteworthy deficit next up we have dawn of war 3 and here this stock 2600 came makes out quite poorly it has to be said dipping below 60 FPS at times interestingly memory speed doesn't appear to have much or any of an impact here and that's not something I would have guessed to be honest evidently a big part of the issue here is the clock speed as the 2600 case saw a very nice 28 percent boost an average frame rate and a 26 percent boost for the 1% low result once overclocked that said though it was still 23% slower than the overclocked 80s seminar okay but that's the closest medium quality test result we've seen yet increasing the visual quality settings with the high preset changed virtually nothing as we see almost the exact same frame rates and as a result the same margins even with the maximum quality settings today well we see almost no difference in frame rate from the medium quality settings we're obviously extremely CPU bound in this title that said though jumping to 1440p where both CPU and GPU bound depending on which configuration you look at even so the overclocked 22-ton RK was still 22 percent sold 97 or okay when comparing the one percent low results but just 14% slower for the average framerate thanks to the 8th gen series being limited by the GTX 1080 Ti Wow here is another title where the stock 2600 K looks painfully slow compared to the more modern processors even the 4770k is world's faster here in fact once again overclocked in the 22-ton arcade a 4.8 gigahertz isn't even enough to see it overtake these stock 4770k this means overclock the 2600 k is 28% slower than the 8700 k increasing the visual quality settings to very high reduce the 28% margin seen previously ever so slightly to 25% then with the ultra quality settings enabled the 87 ROK and its eight generation pals slam into a GPU brick wall as they find themselves locked at an average of 90 FPS these are for to the overclocked 2600 k the opportunity to catch up and now it's just 13% slower of course the margin is reduced even further at 40 40p and now the overclock 2600 k is just three percent slower as the games primarily GPU bound at this point moving on we have dirt 4 and this time overclocking the 2600 cater 4.8 gigahertz was enough to nudge it ahead of the stock 4770k albeit just ahead this meant overclocked it was 27% slower than the overclocked 8700 k interestingly increase in the quality preset sees the overclocked 2600 a full quite some distance behind the stock 4770k and as a result it's near 31 percent slower than the overclocked 8700 K I'm not sure what's gone wrong for the 2600 K here so let's move on to the ultra quality preset to see what we find here we do see a similar situation and although the overclocked 2600 K has managed to close in on the 87 okay that's really only due to the fact that the 8th generation processors have found the limits of the 1080 to I again you'll notice that the 2600 K is still quite a long way behind the 4770k that's really quite an interesting result even at 1440p the overclocked 26 and arcade trails the 4770k by quite a large margin despite nudging closer to a GPU bound 8700 k still the 1% low result for the overclocked 2600 k is surprisingly low here it's still 23% slower than the 4770k and moving right along next up we have f1 2017 and although the 22 enrique does trail behind the pack by quite a large margin it also provided well over 100 FPS at all times so highly playable performance then still if we use f1 2017 as a measuring stick with the medium quality settings the 2016 or k was 23% solid 97 okay and 27 percent slower once both CPUs are overclocked jumping up to the higher quality settings and here we see that once overclocked for 2600 K is able to nudge your head of the 4770k this time still it was 26 percent sold nearly seminary hay when comparing the overclocked results now with the ultra high quality preset enabled the gtx 1080i starts to limit the performance of the 87 or okay and this means overclocked for 2600 k is now just 12% slower then finally increase in the resolution of 1440 p results in a heavy GPU bottleneck now the 2600 K is just 6% solid 8700 K though it does only roughly match the stock 4770k assassin's creed origins buckles the core i7 2600k breaking it down to just 52 FPS at times before we overclock then once overclocked we still see dips as low as 62 FPS and this meant it was around 30% slower than the 87 okay which I should note was till GPU limited even with the medium quality preset enabled interestingly the margin for the 1% lower result grows with the high quality preset enabled now they overclocked 2600 hay is 33% slower and of course the 87 RK is still GPU limited the 2600 case average framerate result is more impressive but that 1% low figure clearly shows the aging quad core struggles with this title even when overclocked now with the ultra high quality settings enabled the overclocked 2600 code trails by a country mile when looking at the 1% low data here it was 31% sold in 87 ok which is still heavily GPU bound I had a shroom when testing the 4770k at the poor minimum FPS performance was down to the use of slower ddr3 memory but limited memory balance doesn't appear to be the issue here when comparing the 2600 k with 1600 and 2133 memory interestingly at 1440p we start to see some separation between the various eighth generation cpus we're looking at the 1% of low result and I have to say that's kind of unexpected although the average frame rates are much the same across the board there is a reasonably large variance in the 1% low figures here the overclocked 2600 K will still 18% sold nearly 700 K though it did match the core i5 8400 like f1 2017 the frame rates are quite high in project cars with the 2600 K though despite that it is still a country mile behind the 8700 K with both CPU is overclocked for 2200 K was 22% slower for the average frame rate and 28% slower after the minimum frame rate overclocked the 2600 K was able to pull the head of the 4770k and although much taller than the overclocked daddy seminar ok looked pretty solid overall now this is peculiar the overclocked 2600 K for the first time testing is able to roughly match the overclocked 4770k honestly I was expecting to see a lot more of this but for whatever reason the overclocked 2600 K has struggled to keep pace with the fourth-generation 4770k the trend continues with the ultra quality settings and here the overclocked 2600 hay is just 16 percent slower nearly 700 K or 20% slower if we look at the 1% data however jumping up to 1440p almost neutralizes the playing field entirely and now the overclocked 2600 K is less than 10% styled now it is 700 K the 2600 K also enjoyed a solid 22% performance boost from the overclock with Rainbow six siege the 2600 K is back to getting absolutely pummeled at high frame rates despite an almost 20% increase in performance once overclocked it was still slightly slower than the stock 4770k and as a result the overclocked 2600 K was 31% slower than the overclocked 8700 K the margin is reduced to 26% with the high-quality preset enabled but even so the 2600 K is really showing its age in this title of course it did maintain well over 100 FPS at all times but in relation to the newer CPUs tested it looked pretty slow as we increase the GPU load the margins continue to close and now the 2600 K is just 17 percent slower nearly 700 K when comparing the average frame rate although it was 22% slower for the minimum frame rate those gaming at 1440p will notice less of a difference between the various CPUs tested that said despite just 6% separating them for the average frame rate the overclocked 2600 K was still 18% slower than 87 okay we're looking at the 1% low results moving on to this second last game tested total war Warhammer - we again finally stopped 2600 K really struggling at least when compared to the modern CPUs dipping down to 100 FPS mapped the 2600 K was 37% solid 87 ok that said though ever clocking really does help the old Sandy Bridge processor boosting the minimum frame rate by 27% making it 20% slower than 87 or hey once again though we see that the 87 RK is limited by the GTX 1080 TI I had expected the higher quality preset to reduce the margin between the 2600 K and the 87 okay but it's done the opposite stop the 2600 K is now 39 percent slower and one overclocked it still trailed the GPU limited 87 okay by a twenty nine percent margin these margins can be seen we're looking at the one percent low data quite shockingly even the ultra quality settings don't allow the 2600 K to catch up and here it's much slower than expected and say there has to be some kind of design or platform limitation here bumping the resolution up to 1440p we finally see the margin close up but even so the overclocked 2,600 K is nowhere near we'd expect it to be still trailing every other CPU tested by an 8% margin the 4770k also uses ddr3 memory albeit higher clock 2400 stuff but still while that might aid the margin we're seeing it really has to be down to IPC improvements wrapping things that we have the Call of Duty World War two results and as usual we'll start with the medium or in this case normal quality settings here the overclock 2600 K is able to edge out the 4770k albeit by slim margin meanwhile we compared to the 87 arcades the overclocked 2700 K was 28% slower when comparing the 1% data again we find that when increasing the quality settings this time in our high the margin actually increases the overclocked 2600 K is now 33 percent slower than the overclocked 87 or gate when comparing the 1 percent low data the margin remains much the same even with the extra quality settings enabled here the overclocked 2600 K was 32 percent slower than the 87 ok even at 1440p we again to see similar margins and here the overclocked 2600 K was 33% slower than the 8700 K so for those seeking maximum frame rates in this fast-paced first-person shooter you're not gonna want a Sandy Bridge processor okay so if you've made it this far well done I'll get some t-shirts made up saying something like I survived 968 benchmark results and if you only just made it well prepare to brace yourself because I've got two more graphs showing the average performance across the 11 games tested so let's check that out before wrapping things up across the 11 games test and if we look at the data from the lowest quality presets tested at 1080p this is what we find they're overclocked 2,600 k was 27% slowly overclocked 87 okay when comparing the average frame rate or I suppose you could say the 87 or okay was 37% faster this is true for both the average frame rate and one percent low result on average the overclocked 2600 K was also only able to match the stock 4770k and was therefore beaten by the stock 7600 okay that said though in games such as battlefield 1 the 2600 case still provided a much better experience when compared to the quad core Core i5 processor for those gaming at what's probably a more realistic resolution the overclocked 2600 okay was just 17 percent slower than the 87 okay when comparing the 1 percent low results and that's still a pretty big margin to be honest especially given how heavily limited the 8700 K was in most of the games the 2600 K was 10 percent so when comparing the average frame repet really it's those 1 percent low results that gamers will notice the most right so if you're a core i7 2618 er what does this mean for you well currently probably not a lot if you're running a graphics card that's equal to or slower than a GTX 1074 now you really don't need to do anything assuming that you've overclocked that sucker to at least 4 point 5 gigahertz at the stock clock speeds the 2600 K will often limit performance of a gtx 1070 or vega 56 graphics card so be aware of that and with the gtx 1060 or an RX 580 for example you'll have no such problem overclocked to the 2600 k averaged a hundred and forty FPS in battlefield one a gtx 1070 well it's good for around a hundred and fifteen FPS with an 8700 K so for the most part you should be okay there Call of Duty World War 2 it's a little closer there the gtx 1070 that's good for a hundred and thirty three FPS on average with the 8700 k the overclocked 2600 k while that man is just 134 FPS with the 1080 TI so you certainly on the edge there with a 2600 K and a 1070 combo if you are playing the latest and greatest tiles on an overclocked 2600 K with the GTX 1080 or better then without question the little old CPU it is restricting performance quite a bit there of course the 2600 K is now a seven-year-old CPU so the fact that it's holding up high-performance GPUs in 2017 probably shouldn't be that surprising I think it's fair to say that Sandy Bridge has fared well over the years now certainly better than any other CPU architecture we've seen before or at least any of that I can recall but we're now at the end of the road the next generation of GPUs will likely see budget mid-range models finding the limits of the 2600 K and at that point it will certainly be worth upgrading still if you're serious about your games and you play titles such as battlefield 1a Call of Duty World War 2 then I strongly suggest you look at upgrading to an eighth gen core processor or maybe 2017 s best value option the horizon 5 1600 speaking of which in the next update I'll finally add some rise in CPUs to these results and on that note I'm going to end this one and get back to some benchmarking I'm your host Steve see you next time