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Your experience may be different, but I've never seen a case where a $50 CPU yielded a significant upgrade. The new CPUs tend to change sockets before prices d
by marshray 14y ago
Your experience may be different, but I've never seen a case where a $50 CPU yielded a significant upgrade.
The new CPUs tend to change sockets before prices drop that low. With memory bandwidth being the major bottleneck, a new CPU in the same system never seemed to give more than 10% improvement anyway.
- rdl 14y agoI've done it only when I had a few machines which needed bleeding-edge CPUs (and price didn't matter), and other machines. I'd buy high end and cheap CPUs when putting both systems online, then in a year (assuming the motherboard/socket was still current), I'd put the old high-end CPU into the cheap machine, and buy a new high-end CPU for the important machine.