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It is not just that 'old is good enough', in last years PCs are actually getting worse. I would love to spend money, but there is no stuff to buy. My 7 years o
by qwerta 14y ago
It is not just that 'old is good enough', in last years PCs are actually getting worse. I would love to spend money, but there is no stuff to buy.
My 7 years old laptop has higher display resolutions than anything on the market (except two new laptops). It is also impossible to buy laptop with 4:3 screen ratio.
My 2 years old desktop CPU overclocked at 5GHz is faster than anything on the market, last two CPU generations can not reach such performance.
And some newest SSD generation actually have worse performance characteristics than previous generation.
- fierarul 14y ago>It is not just that 'old is good enough', in last years PCs are actually getting worse. I would love to spend money, but there is no stuff to buy. So true, and it applies to Macs too! Long ago, I was looking forward to a 17" MBP but Apple discontinued it. My 2008 15" MBP has an Intel SSD plus a 2nd large spinning drive (optibay), mate display and a removable battery. Sometimes I wish I could just keep buying spare parts for it forever. Too bad you can't upgrade the CPU too.
- jiggy2011 14y agoMy 2 years old desktop CPU overclocked at 5GHz is faster than anything on the market, last two CPU generations can not reach such performance. That's a fairly extreme overclock! I imagine you must be able to get some impressive results from a modern i7 with the right cooling though? I remember when overclocking was a thing that anybody into PC gaming did for economical reasons, these days it hardly seems worth the effort of fiddling around in the bios menu.
- qwerta 14y agoCooling is regular Antec H2O 920, it fits into case without any problem. It took about 3 hours to assemble and overclock, I just followed manual. It runs 24/7, I do number crunching and Scala developing (slow compiler). Intel does not bother soldering heatsink into chip anymore (saves 50 cents). So newer CPU can not be overclocked without disassembling and replacing some parts. Results are not bad, but in reality it is just 30% speedup.