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Older hardware isn't always slower hardware. Intel 6950X is unsupported. That's 10 cores at 3.5GHz. It's about 10x faster multicore and 2x faster single-core t

Older hardware isn't always slower hardware. Intel 6950X is unsupported. That's 10 cores at 3.5GHz. It's about 10x faster multicore and 2x faster single-core than a modern, supported Intel Celeron N4500. Moore-style scaling where chips are faster (rather than just denser) ran out a while back. Expensive computers from a decade back beat cheap computers of today. A modern 20-core PC is perhaps 1/10th the CPU cost as compared to when the 6950x came out, but not a lot faster. If that 6950x was maxed out to 128GB RAM and set up with a decent GPU, it can be a very good system. That's among the oldest processors not supported, but many computers with somewhat newer CPUs don't work either due to motherboard / BIOS issues.

caspper69 2y ago
In the same boat with one of my user's 6950x. Ridiculously fast machine over its lifetime, and still doesn't trip on much. Unreal that a 64GB machine with plenty of love to go around is getting the shaft. I could muck about with a TPM module because the mobo has a header, and there are supported chips on the market, but the 8th gen requirement is a dealbreaker. I'm trying to get this user to just go Mac, but it's like pulling teeth. If they insist on a new machine, then maybe I'll make it my BSD box.