OC3D Best Of 2011 Awards
Introduction and CPU
Published: 30th December 2011 | Source: OC3D | Price: |
Introduction
We review a lot of products during a year here at OC3D, some of them are great, some okay and some less so.
However there are always those bits of hardware that stick in the mind, the ones that really blew our socks off. The ones that, if we were building a rig, we'd be happy to buy. This led to some discussion about which items from each section we'd pick. Not only was this a perfect excuse to pop to the pub and have a heated debate, but we enjoyed it so much we thought we'd share the final list we arrived at.
So without further ado, bring on the fanfare and settle in with the last of your festive nibbles, as we present the Overclock3D Best of 2011. Please remember for a product to be considered for this it had to be RELEASED in 2011 not just available to buy. Please take a look at the following pages for all of the awarded products but TTL has been on the coffee again and made us all a monster video about the awards too!
CPU
Intel Core i7-2600K
Starting with the first decision anyone has to make when building a rig, which socket, and therefore which processor, will be the heart of your system? For us there is only one winner, the Intel Core i7-2600K. Although the Core i7-3960X was ridiculously fast, it is also ridiculously expensive, whereas the 2600K provides all the performance you could ever desire at a very reasonable price. Hyperthreading, great overclocking performance. It's the Daddy.
You can read our review here or watch the video review here.
Most Recent Comments
Looking forward to more of the same next year
I do have one question what about the best memory of the year? Is there just to many variables or was it forgotten
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. Got the drive bay covers and the mesh powered coated blood red. Looks awesome!WOAH that was nearly an hour long!!! ah well best get back to work
@ yassarikhan786
what? i know that, i'm talking about the awards you know............. the original review gave different rewards is all i'm saying.
Oh, sorry about the misunderstanding. Yeh, the awards were different originally.
so gold is saying it came FIRST (it was the best of the bunch in its category)... 'of the best'
and silver came SECOND best
it is a 'round-up' of what happened in 2011
the i7-2600K still is silver on review, but won the 2011 award on its own merit (compared to other releases)
J/K Love the video reviews keep up the great work!!
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