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My i7-2600 is still a beast (well, still gong strong anyway). They did the same thing with Meltdown/Spectre fixes.

• NullPrefix 8y ago
  Grandpa, it's time to upgrade.
  • coaxial 8y ago
    Why? Because it's been longer than intel would like since parent gave them money?
    • bhouston 8y ago
      If Intel has made currently processes ultra fast recently that wouldn't be an issue, but the Intel Core i7 2700 is actually not that slow. Roughly comparable, at least within 20%, of other 4 core + 4 HT Intel processors.
  • PostOnce 8y ago
    with an entry-level GPU and slow RAM that works with an i5-2500k, i can play every modern game i have tried on high. Nothing about me opening a text editor, interpreting most code, or compiling the occasional thing require anywhere near that much power. For the overwhelming majority, and i really mean overwhelming, there's really no progress or point to upgrading anything except the gpu in the past 7 years or so in laptops, new stuff uses a LOT less power for the same speed, so there's that I guess.
    • opencl 8y ago
      I upgraded my 2500k last year (to a Ryzen system) and the extra cores are very nice sometimes but honestly the biggest improvement was the fact that I also went from 8GB RAM to 16GB. There were a couple of games that benefited substantially from faster memory (Rise of the Tomb Raider, Fallout 4) but generally not so much the actual CPU performance.
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