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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by ye on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:08PM (#6606831)
You're just not playing the latest games or doing any intensive computations, or just don't care that you could finish your task 3 times faster than on your 2008 CPU.

What's your framerate in Battlefield 3 on a 64 player map at 1920x1080, high settings? Or Crysis 3?

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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by sejje on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:35PM (#6607021)
You just picked the most expensive calculation you could, more or less, and asked how a general-purpose PC handles it.

A brand new general-purpose PC handles that situation equally well--unplayable.

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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by ye on Thursday October 24, 2013 @08:00PM (#6608934)
No, the most expensive would be a 3-monitor setup at 2560x1440 on ultra settings.
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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by TylerE on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:52PM (#6607129)
That's the thing...most games are still not multi-threaded well, and single threaded performance hasn't gone up more than maybe 20-30%, they just tacked on more cores.
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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by ye on Thursday October 24, 2013 @08:02PM (#6608939)
That's actually not true. Modern high end CPUs are multiple times faster than the CPUs from 2008. The architecture changed too, not just the frequency.
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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by TylerE on Thursday October 24, 2013 @09:37PM (#6609249)
I have an i7 920, purchased in December 2008. Please point out which consumer processors (No $3000 xeons) have "multiple times" greater single threaded performance.
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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by jrpm on Friday October 25, 2013 @12:21AM (#6609740)
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

You can have double speed.

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Re:The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones by ye on Friday October 25, 2013 @09:29AM (#6611433)
i7-4770
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