Shponglefan wrote on 2024-05-20, 15:35:
VivienM wrote on 2024-05-20, 13:35:
Frankly, with the benefit of hindsight, I would argue that 2001 was a bad year for PC buying. If you had a PII/PIII from 1998 or so, you would have had a lot better options in 2002 - Athlon XP, Northwood, GeForce 4, etc. Then you keep that system with a few upgrades until 2006 and Conroe... (and then you keep that Conroe until Sandy/Ivy Bridge, then you... go the dark side with Ryzen, I guess)
No love for Coffee Lake CPUs?
I'm still running an i7-8700k in my "modern" gaming rig. 😁
No love for anything in Intel's 14nm period, really. I don't think there have been any era-defining processors in that time.
I'm still running a i7-7700 non-k in my most modern Windows desktop rig. Bought it because, well, my RAM-starved DDR2 C2Q just couldn't go further, not out of a great sense of excitement for the Kaby Lake architecture. Unfortunately, unlike yours, it landed on the wrong side of Windows 11's arbitrary processor age requirements - it still runs 11 unsupportedly just fine, though. I also have a i5-10500 in a cheap iMac.
And one thing that I have struggled to understand about the modern processors - if you are not a crazy person with 1000+W PSUs, liquid cooling, etc who is pumping 200-300W through them, how... well... do they perform? My guess is that the non-K version with the stock cooler is going to seriously, seriously underperform... but almost no reviewers benchmark those.
I'm cautiously hoping Arrow Lake will be appealing, although to be honest, now that Microsoft is 'enforcing' arbitrary age limits, I'm tempted to wait until Windows 12 before building the next box. Or I admit that I have been very tempted by the dark side lately... some of those new Ryzens seem quite nice.