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I 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 plen
by seabrookmx 7y ago
I 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.