Re:AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched an...
by dis-sys on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:45PM
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same here, I still have my Q6600 and I'd bet that 90% applications still run fine.
this is very very different from back in the 90s, in those good old days 18 months old PC is basically useless.
Re:AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched an...
by 21 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:59AM
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I think you misread parents post.
I had a Q9300, and than upgraded to some i7 because I needed more slots on the motherboard. I was very surprised by how much quicker the whole system was, even if I was under the same impression, that in the last years things didn't change a lot.
CPUs get faster by around 20% per year, but in 8 years this can get compounded a lot.
I said exactly that, "things haven't changed much since then". It ran well and all, and never overtly irritated me.
But the newest round of affordable mid-high end CPUs is a huge upgrade. Same with SSDs, even compared to ones a few years old. It's one of those things you don't really realize how big the difference is until you use them back to back.
Do it!