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Re:Intel demonstrates a 28-core processor running at 5GHz by balls187 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:23AM (#17238530)
How are you ascertaining that there is no reason to upgrade?

I went from a Nehalem i7 3.20GHz extreme hex core, to a kabylake i7 7700k 4-core, and it's a night and day difference.

In every one of my use cases my 7700k outperforms the older CPU.

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Re:Intel demonstrates a 28-core processor running at 5GHz by WhiteOwlLion on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:36AM (#17238668)
Depends what you are doing and whether the upgrade justifies the cost and productivity gain. I just bought several i5 quad core 3.2Ghz Dell Optiplex 3010 for our church for $35 ea. They run Windows 10 and LibreOffice just fine on a HDD. Now, if I'm crunching for distributed computing, I might want that quad XEON 24-core 1U server off eBay instead. Just depends on your workload and use case.
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