I'm still running a Q6600 + 8GB RAM I bought in 2007. I don't really do gaming, so my perf demands aren't as high as yours. But if you'd told me, in 2007, when

I'm still running a Q6600 + 8GB RAM I bought in 2007. I don't really do gaming, so my perf demands aren't as high as yours. But if you'd told me, in 2007, when I bought that CPU, that it'd still be usable - much less sufficient - 8 years later, I'd have thought you were crazy.