wrote:Sorry! 🙁
No no I was only joking, you're doing great work - particularly lately with all of the unrest.
Life? Don't talk to me about life.
I think early Core i7 will be quite valued 10-20 years from now. They have Win XP support, native PCI slots and excellent performance for games of that era. Then again, current era hardware was produced in greater quantities, so maybe 30 years.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
Well then when they become cheap like PGA 370/ PGA 478 it will be good.
My 462 machine runs NFS Most Wanted on full max, as only thing is fix on the damn AA that brakes the performance is all good.
It can run also Crysis 1, but on low i think did not test it..
GTA San Andreas i s working really nice on max i think..
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wrote:I think early Core i7 will be quite valued 10-20 years from now. They have Win XP support, native PCI slots and excellent performance for games of that era. Then again, current era hardware was produced in greater quantities, so maybe 30 years.
Then again, i7 era games work on a much wider spectrum of computers than, let's say, early 90's games. You can setup one machine to cover the whole XP era and then another for the Win7/Win10 and this includes pretty much anything released in the past 17 years!
wrote:I think early Core i7 will be quite valued 10-20 years from now. They have Win XP support, native PCI slots and excellent performance for games of that era. Then again, current era hardware was produced in greater quantities, so maybe 30 years.
Go look at how much good LGA 1366 motherboards go for on eBay. Stupid high prices.
And the first gen Core i boards are generally pretty buggy when it comes to USB 3.0 especially. Easier to just disable that crap and install a newer USB 3.0/3.1 card than to deal with the horrible stock ports.
Now if you are talking to low end/Joe consumer stuff... it is just Meh and pretty pointless as the PCIe lanes are very lacking if you actually want to build a fast machine. And the RAM throughput is sad compared to LGA 1366 as well.
socket 1366 is very popular because of the very cheap Xeon option for this board now which gives you 6 cores/12 threads.
@Stilleto about the necro posting: Is it really a bad thing on a forum like Vogons? Especially when it is a technical topic i rather like it that information is added instead of a new topic, so it is all nice and neat in the same place?
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wrote:socket 1366 is very popular because of the very cheap Xeon option for this board now which gives you 6 cores/12 threads.
Yeah, I know. I have a couple servers running dual X5675 CPUs as well as a few 1366 motherboards in storage and I also have a family member I set up with a couple 1366 systems when I got one of motherboards (the other was one of my old boards) and CPUs super cheap.
But those old boards going for $200+ on a regular basis is quite crazy.
