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I'm using an Alder Lake i7 12700K machine now as my daily driver since last year (2022), but before that I was still using my Sandy Bridge i7 2700K machine I pu
by Dalewyn 3y ago
I'm using an Alder Lake i7 12700K machine now as my daily driver since last year (2022), but before that I was still using my Sandy Bridge i7 2700K machine I put together in 2012. That's 10~11 years of active service, and I still use it once in a while as a sub machine with no really noticable deficiencies. That 2700K's still more than powerful enough for most things I can throw at it today.
I also still have a home server running that's built around a Sandy Bridge i3 2100, too. That CPU's overkill, let alone anything newer, for a server that just handles backups and LAN file sharing.
Sandy Bridge was, in my opinion, the turning point when CPU performance finally met and outpaced common user demands for processing power. In generations prior it was commonplace for CPUs (and thus entire machines) to be upgraded every few years, because performance always became insufficient, but since Sandy Bridge it became practical to just keep using it for the better part of a decade if not more.
- windowsrookie 3y agoI'd make the argument that Core 2 Duo was the first 10+ year capable chip. For the avaerage person, A Core 2 Duo system from 2007-2008 could easily be used up to 2018. They are now starting to slow down quite a bit on modern web pages, but certainly still usable. The biggest thing holding them back is video decoding. I have a couple C2D MacBooks and the GPU has no hardware GPU decoding. It's crazy to think 2018 was 5 years ago....
- SomeRndName11 3y agoYep, owned i5 3470 for several years, and it was very fast for me. Bought 12500 only because I needed AVX512 (and it is the best AVX512 around, with FP16).
- ysleepy 3y agoIntel deactivated avx512 in non pre-production. Did you mod your bios, or were you affected as well by this?
- Dalewyn 3y agoIt depends on the specific BIOS, but AVX512 can be used on Alder Lake CPUs if you buy a performance cores only processor or the efficiency cores are all disabled.
- SomeRndName11 3y ago1) You need CPU produced in late 2022, not in 2023. I deliberately checked the date code when was buying the CPU. 2) You need a motherboard with old miccrocode. 3) You need to disable microcode update in your OS, be it Windows or Linux.