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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.

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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.

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!

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