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> the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor > the fastest or second fastest consumer nvidia card > represents the sweet spot in price/performance, savi

> the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor > the fastest or second fastest consumer nvidia card > represents the sweet spot in price/performance, saving money on your axe is a false economy. Care to explain your reasoning? Going with high-end components seems to be the opposite of the sweet spot. A $200 i5-7600 and $250 GTX 1060 are going to be indistinguishable in non-benchmark settings for most workloads when compared to a $700 GTX 1080 and $350 i7-7700k. Or even a $100 AMD A10-7860K and a $200 RX480. I have a hard time believing that reaction times to differences of a few milliseconds or one extra frame being painted actually add up to matter. If they do, why not go with the extreme edition processors and triple SLI 1080s?

willholloway 10y ago
Because developer time is worth much more than the hardware cost delta. There are a number of tasks we do that are compute bottlenecked, how about compressing an archive, or compiling, or transcoding? Even things like apt-get install is faster with a faster processor, and vim plugins can be ridiculous with their lag. It all adds up to hours and days and eventually weeks of your life over time. I don't think the tradeoff of saving $100 or $200 on a chip that will last three years and will be worth more on resale is worth it.