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Per your chart, single-thread performance has been basically flat since 2012. There's also negligible difference between SATA and NVME SSDs for regular desktop
by ahelwer 6y ago
Per your chart, single-thread performance has been basically flat since 2012. There's also negligible difference between SATA and NVME SSDs for regular desktop work (there are many videos demonstrating this).
I have a six-year-old computer (i5-4670k) and there isn't really much tempting me to upgrade. I can even still run contemporary games on high settings at 1440p (after upgrading GPU to a GTX 1060). The only thing that might eventually clinch it is that DDR3 RAM is very expensive at larger sizes, and it would be nice to have 64 or 128 GB for some workloads (requiring upgrading CPU + mobo to support DDR4).