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Don’t Buy a Desktop PC with One of Intel’s Newest Processors

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I liked this quote:

> Intel’s 10th-generation desktop processors are still widely available, and they still perform reasonably well for most tasks, including gaming, professional photo and video editing, 3D modeling, and other tasks that benefit from a lot of processor power.

I could say the same about my Haswell E3-1276 (4th-generation). I play demanding games at 2K or 4K and use some professional apps without skipping a beat. I think Haswell and beyond are sometimes under appreciated in a world where CPUs slowly tick upwards every year. :)

I just started using a PC I built in 2014 again, also with a Haswell processor. Like you say, still pretty snappy.

But honestly I was a bit sad it hadn't become hopelessly obsolete.

Agreed. I'm still on Ivy Bridge(3rd gen) quad-core i7(laptop). Its fast for all my development needs. I put SSD couple of years ago and its quite snappy.

T430 Ivy Bridge (i7-3840QM) checking in - still kills it as a daily development system.

Nice! 3630QM here.

T430s! From 2011. SSD, windows 7, 16 gb ram…still going strong!

when you're developing web based, or at least network based software having 16/32 core/threads like AMD's top consumer chips it becomes pretty darn hard not to have. Once you get used to that power, it's hard to imagine less.

I get it, for everyday use, it doesn't matter, but when your standing up a bunch of docker containers running a bunch of networked apps, it's a game changer.

Yeah the 5950x will run circles around any Haswell based CPU. I suppose for single threaded tasks, it’s still not a massive jump ( although still pretty substantial).

I get that CPUs were moving at a snails pace before but AMD really shook things up with the 3000 and now 5000 series.

I've found single core 5950x performance to be 20-30% faster in my ruby/rails benchmarks, vs my old 4 core Xeon (which had single core turbo at 4ghz).

Very happy with the upgrade

I understand that. It's totally dependent on your needs. If you need to run multiple docker containers or VMs, then you need that power and I get that, I'd need it too in that case.

I'm sorry, you can't just tell me "X is better than Y" without telling me how MUCH better. Google Maps sends me down strange side roads all the time because it thinks it'll save me 10 seconds. I'd prefer to stay on the highway if the difference is miniscule.

I'd honestly wait a year or so for Alder Lake and just get it with DDR5 RAM.

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