"Soldiering on with its undying attitude, the 2500K consistently out-edged the i3-6100 and in titles such as Overwatch and Total War: Warhammer, the Sandy Bridge quad-core stayed several steps ahead. Considering how heavily the 2500K can be overclocked, those who invested in this processor six years [ago] are probably still grinning today."
You know it's bad when the Dow Jones Industrial Average is outperforming desktop Intel CPUs in annual gains.
I have no reason to change the base system any time soon, or move to a newer intel or amd architecture.
(I really wanted a used e3-1290 v2 but those are still quite pricey, for an old chip)
The price for used Intel chips is ridiculous. I bought a Dell R210 II and was looking to upgrade from the E3-1220v1 to an E3 v2 chip, but the cheapest ones available are still selling for $90+ USD (this is a CPU released 5 years ago).
The retail price of the E3-1220v2 new, in 2012, was $189. Heck, the E3-1220Lv2 was $189 retail and sells today for $150!
5 years later and it hasn't even lost half its value. Insane what stagnation in the CPU market has done to resale prices...
Crazy for such old chips, but then they are still good!
I think this is as far as I can take it though. It'll never be able to boot off an NVMe drive, which I'll definitely grab for my next machine. My XPS 15 has one and there's a subtle but noticeable difference in snappy-ness.