How often do you buy/ upgrade to new hardware.
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:21 amThere are some guys i know who game a lot and dont bother upgrading to any new chip, just max out the memory with 8 gb ddr2 with a 7950 on a board that runs an athlon x2 or core2duo/ dual core for susbstituting a ps3/xbox360.
In my experience anything 65nm is a dead end--cant get anywhere above 3 ghz stable.
45nm can get you 4 ghz.
32nm matured gets 5 ghz.
My own phenom II 1090t is a workhorse only if i "have" work for it. Wont exchange it, just use it up till it cant do anything anymore OR if smartphones take over(Samsung has plans).
Thought of upgrading to fx-8350 but would rather wait till piledriver is out or whenever am able to buy it dirt cheap.
running a crossfire config with underclocked 6790 radeons which sums up to a gtx 580.
The so called benches of the Radeon 8850 hammers on 7870
and with a lower power draw. Its just on paper though.
Apart from cheaper 240gb and 480gb ssd's which can be a no brainer for non-gamers but ideal for external storage, buying newer hardware or upgrading to every new generation is a waste of money.
Even a full tick-tock which Intel offers every 2.5 years is an utter waste. The 990x extreme edition is doing extremely well.
The best solution would be to skip a gen or maybe 2 to get something if the performance gain is much over 80% of what you have.
A major consideration in buying newer hardware rather than for performance gain is power draw and TDP.
have a nas box with a sempron unlocked to athlon II with 2 cores running at 3.8ghz also doing data recovery that can take days. This system never goes off, just sleeps if it has to wait for me.
The major of the people who buy intel iv-b or amd trinity laptops care only for power consumption, hand in hand with the price.
A 125/130 watt cpu is big joke! compared to what intel i5 3570k/3470 is offering in performance,power and price.
A trinity laptop that i tested sips power in an exotic manner, consuming only for the right apps and heavy games.
In my experience anything 65nm is a dead end--cant get anywhere above 3 ghz stable.
45nm can get you 4 ghz.
32nm matured gets 5 ghz.
My own phenom II 1090t is a workhorse only if i "have" work for it. Wont exchange it, just use it up till it cant do anything anymore OR if smartphones take over(Samsung has plans).
Thought of upgrading to fx-8350 but would rather wait till piledriver is out or whenever am able to buy it dirt cheap.
running a crossfire config with underclocked 6790 radeons which sums up to a gtx 580.
The so called benches of the Radeon 8850 hammers on 7870
and with a lower power draw. Its just on paper though.Apart from cheaper 240gb and 480gb ssd's which can be a no brainer for non-gamers but ideal for external storage, buying newer hardware or upgrading to every new generation is a waste of money.
Even a full tick-tock which Intel offers every 2.5 years is an utter waste. The 990x extreme edition is doing extremely well.
The best solution would be to skip a gen or maybe 2 to get something if the performance gain is much over 80% of what you have.
A major consideration in buying newer hardware rather than for performance gain is power draw and TDP.
have a nas box with a sempron unlocked to athlon II with 2 cores running at 3.8ghz also doing data recovery that can take days. This system never goes off, just sleeps if it has to wait for me.
The major of the people who buy intel iv-b or amd trinity laptops care only for power consumption, hand in hand with the price.
A 125/130 watt cpu is big joke! compared to what intel i5 3570k/3470 is offering in performance,power and price.
A trinity laptop that i tested sips power in an exotic manner, consuming only for the right apps and heavy games.