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I'm still rocking the i7 920. It's still running perfectly fine. I throw a new gpu in it every couple of years and have never had performance problems.
by delusional 7y ago
I'm still rocking the i7 920. It's still running perfectly fine. I throw a new gpu in it every couple of years and have never had performance problems.
- forinti 7y agoBest machine in the house is an i3 540 running Ubuntu. I recently upgraded RAM to 12GB. It is perfectly fine for my needs: mostly browsing, some video editing, and coding Perl.
- seabrookmx 7y agoI recently moved from a 920 to an 8700k. The 920 will bottleneck GPUs as slow as a GTX970 in some titles (PUBG, Rage 2 for example). Great chip and still plenty for development/daily use, but IMO past its prime for gaming. I also had to have expansion cards for USB 3.1 and SATA 3 which was annoying. NVMe is out of the question :(
- ScannerBrightly 7y agoGaming, sure, but just throwing an i7 away? Heck, my ham radio PC is a dual core duo.
- seabrookmx 7y agoOh yeah I'm not advocating tossing them. There's lots of opportunities to repurpose a chip like that. I just see lots of people saying things like "still daily driving an abacus!" as if there's been no progress on CPU development in the last 10 years, and that's just false. Progress has _slowed_, but a modern Ryzen or i-Series is quantifiably better than older gear.
- sjwright 7y agoAnd if you use the computer extensively and live in a country where electricity is expensive, you could also be paying for that inefficiency in your utility bill.
- gambiting 7y agoI have a desktop PC in the living room, with an i5-2400 + GTX1050TI - still runs all modern games in high settings at 1080p@60fps. Literally no idea why someone would throw out a 3xxx series CPU at this point, it's all fast enough for daily use.