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You know, I had a desktop build of a similar vintage (late 2008) until recently. High quality for the time - C2D E8500 with 8GB of RAM, newer SSD and video card
by ptmcc 9y ago
You know, I had a desktop build of a similar vintage (late 2008) until recently. High quality for the time - C2D E8500 with 8GB of RAM, newer SSD and video card.
I said exactly that, "things haven't changed much since then". It ran well and all, and never overtly irritated me.
But the newest round of affordable mid-high end CPUs is a huge upgrade. Same with SSDs, even compared to ones a few years old. It's one of those things you don't really realize how big the difference is until you use them back to back.
Do it!
- dis-sys 9y agosame here, I still have my Q6600 and I'd bet that 90% applications still run fine. this is very very different from back in the 90s, in those good old days 18 months old PC is basically useless.
- mtanski 9y agoPentium 60 (93) => 100 (94) => 166 (96) => 200 (96). It was cray cray
- 21 9y agoI think you misread parents post. I had a Q9300, and than upgraded to some i7 because I needed more slots on the motherboard. I was very surprised by how much quicker the whole system was, even if I was under the same impression, that in the last years things didn't change a lot. CPUs get faster by around 20% per year, but in 8 years this can get compounded a lot.