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I bought a second hand desktop PC during the pandemic because hardware was so hard to get, it had a 4770 CPU in there. I didn't look up the details, I just thou

I bought a second hand desktop PC during the pandemic because hardware was so hard to get, it had a 4770 CPU in there. I didn't look up the details, I just thought cool, 16GB and quad-core with hyperthreading. That should do for some browsing and basic office work. For 95% of the tasks this thing is absolutely fine and I struggle to notice any difference between this and my 2k workstation at work. I threw in an AMD 580 GPU and I've even been playing Horizon Zero Dawn, Death Stranding and Prey and it's been fairly smooth with a mix of high and medium settings. I recently discovered that the 4770 is now 10 year old! it's great that hardware can now last (a lot) longer but a part of me is also sad that we don't have the crazy performance gains that we used to have anymore.

Tade0 3y ago
Recently my relative went and bought an RTX 4070 even though his setup includes an Intel 6770 and a motherboard with 16x PCIe 3.0 lanes, which IIRC can't accept more than one generation newer CPU. Turns out the performance penalty is in the low single digit percentages - if at all.
- magicalhippo 3y ago
  Some 10 years ago, I had a i7-2600k at home and my motherboard died. Of course this happened Saturday after the shops were closed, so had to use some old left-over parts. Didn't have a compatible MB but found an old MB with a dual-core Celeron on it, and 4GB of RAM. So installed that, paired it with my GPU, an AMD HD 4870, and a spare SSD with a fresh copy of Windows 8.1. Even with the limitations of dual-core Celeron and only 4GB of RAM I could play most of my games with quite acceptable framerate. General usage was surprisingly fine thanks to the SSD. Was quite shocked as well to find how usable the whole setup was.
magicalhippo 3y ago
> For 95% of the tasks this thing is absolutely fine At work I got a 4770k too, bought it exactly 10 years ago. Besides adding more RAM so I could run some more VMs and upgrading from a SATA SSD to NVME it's chugging along fine. Most of my time is spent on reading specs, documentation or mails, writing code or queries and similar. Sure build times would probably come down some, but we're not using C++ so build times are like 1-2 minutes tops anyway. Figured it was time this year to upgrade, all the others have swapped out their laptops about 3-4 times in the same period, though it would be more like a preventative measure. We're a Windows shop so at some point I'll have to upgrade from Windows 10...

Tade0 3y ago

Recently my relative went and bought an RTX 4070 even though his setup includes an Intel 6770 and a motherboard with 16x PCIe 3.0 lanes, which IIRC can't accept more than one generation newer CPU. Turns out the performance penalty is in the low single digit percentages - if at all.

magicalhippo 3y ago
Some 10 years ago, I had a i7-2600k at home and my motherboard died. Of course this happened Saturday after the shops were closed, so had to use some old left-over parts. Didn't have a compatible MB but found an old MB with a dual-core Celeron on it, and 4GB of RAM. So installed that, paired it with my GPU, an AMD HD 4870, and a spare SSD with a fresh copy of Windows 8.1. Even with the limitations of dual-core Celeron and only 4GB of RAM I could play most of my games with quite acceptable framerate. General usage was surprisingly fine thanks to the SSD. Was quite shocked as well to find how usable the whole setup was.

magicalhippo 3y ago

> For 95% of the tasks this thing is absolutely fine At work I got a 4770k too, bought it exactly 10 years ago. Besides adding more RAM so I could run some more VMs and upgrading from a SATA SSD to NVME it's chugging along fine. Most of my time is spent on reading specs, documentation or mails, writing code or queries and similar. Sure build times would probably come down some, but we're not using C++ so build times are like 1-2 minutes tops anyway. Figured it was time this year to upgrade, all the others have swapped out their laptops about 3-4 times in the same period, though it would be more like a preventative measure. We're a Windows shop so at some point I'll have to upgrade from Windows 10...