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>I'm actually surprised how incremental the progress was over the last decade I think you're a bit over-exaggerating here as it really depends on what you do w
by ChuckNorris89 6y ago
>I'm actually surprised how incremental the progress was over the last decade
I think you're a bit over-exaggerating here as it really depends on what you do with your PC and where you're coming from.
If you've only been running Intel this whole time and all you do is light workloads then you won't notice much progress since they haven't made much, but if do CPU demanding tasks and were to try a Ryzen 3xxx/4xxx, or better yet, a 5xxx, you'll notice a huge leap forward (if you could find one in stock, that is).
However, your "new" 7700 is a bit old in the tooth now and, despite Intel's lack of major progress, it will still be left in the dust by a newer 10th/11th gen chip.
My old faithful Intel Q6600 still serves my parents just fine after 14 years of age, but I'm not gonna pretend it isn't slow by today's standards on the modern bloated web and with all the electron crap.
- mstipetic 6y agoFor sure, but for let's say gaming purposes a computer that was top of the line 5 or so years ago is still completely fine. I haven't been paying much attention as I was just buying a macbook for the last 10 years, but I remember a time when I was younger and a 2 year old computer was worthless.
- zerocrates 6y agoGaming also has its own different problems and pressures. For one, it's rarely a great move to make something that's far beyond the capabilities of the current-gen consoles since so many things will launch on them also. Even the "Pro" variants of this last generation were about 5 years ago by now. You'd expect as the current console generation actually gets off the ground to start seeing more demanding upper settings, and eventually more demanding minimums.