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It’s arguable whether it keeps up but it offers perfectly fine performance for pretty much whatever most people want to do, including a lot of gaming (with a pr
by runjake 7y ago
It’s arguable whether it keeps up but it offers perfectly fine performance for pretty much whatever most people want to do, including a lot of gaming (with a proper GPU).
It does use considerable more power to do so — a few additional LED bulbs worth.
In general, processor performance has outpaced consumer needs for quite some time and most people could get along fine and performant with this 8 year old processor.
Citation: have and still use one, right next to my blown out 8700k system.
- bingerman 7y agoIndeed, Sandy Bridge i7-2600 is still more than enough for me (no gaming but crunching numbers frequently).
- Matthias247 7y agoProbably one of the best investments in the past decade. I had a 2500K for 6 years and only sold it since I moved and didn't carry the old desktop with me. Performance-wise it was still going strong and left nothing to be desired. Definitely faster than the 2015 Macbook Pro I had been using since then - which is also not that bad as an everyday PC.
- CameronNemo 7y agoCan confirm, I have been using an old processor in my T430 for a couple years and it works great, even when compiling Rust projects. battery life is terrible, though. So I have a Pinebook Pro coming in, hopefully there are no ARM-related headaches but even with some large papercuts I think it will be an improvement for usability.