Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s modern foundation
I still run an i7-3770k in my homelab (Ivy Bridge, the successor to Sandy Bridge, but still a relatively shared platform with backwards compat) and despite the fact that it's older than dirt it is still a pretty great processor to this day. Not too long ago it was powering my gaming rig and it held up really well to modern titles at 1080p.<p>The best part is that I got it at a university surplus sale for $60, complete w/ a decent antec case, corsair psu, 16gb of ram and a decent Asus motherboard.