Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
by Keyframe on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:57PM
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I've been thinking of upgrading it to E5-2xxxv2 as well, for years now heh. BUT, I think I'll just let it slide for maybe another half a year or year and retire it altogether. It has been really an amazing run also since 2011 and I am quite positive I could still get maybe few to five years out of it.
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Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
by leptons on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @12:45AM
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The E5-2697v2 scores 227 cpumark points faster than an Apple M1 CPU, for the price of $30 on ebay. It's an easy upgrade that makes the system still quite useful, although it runs quite a bit hotter than the M1. But yeah, it's really at EOL now as it won't run the latest OS - I mean it could, but damn Microsoft for locking my system out. I'd keep it going for 5 more years if Windows 10 seemed viable for that long.