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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, in
by 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 agoI 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.