Remember when everybody wouldn't shut the fuck up about this thing for like 8 years?
>>108550496the i7-4790k was far superior and not much newer desu
>>108550514are they sitting on a (B)ig (B)lackwell (C)luster?
>>108550496The 2600K was my daily driver from 2011-23. Awesome CPU. Now I'm on a 14900K.
>>108550496For me it's the i7-920
For me the 3570k at like 4.8 ghz
>>108550496now it's called the 7800X3D and 9800X3D>>108550865>14900kgrim, worst cpu i've ever used, mine didn't last a day before degradation became an issue regularly crashing browser tabs and BSoDing on idle>>108550514yeah until the 9900kek came, fucking ユダ公 couldn't spare a hundred yen per unit to solder the IHS to the damn 4790k because can't have the ゴイム scratch a few hundred megahertz out of the chip for free especially when there won't be a successor until the 9900kek came
>>108550496i'm still daily-driving a 3770K
>>108550496It was 3 Indians that did it. I remember seeing the jannys talking about it in the 4chan leaks from the hack
>>108550496there was a reason why sandybridge was shilled so much. it was actually good. and overclocking was insane. the shittest 2500k could achieve an 800mhz overclock over base clocks. a really good 2500k could achieve 1.3ghz overclock over base. i had my 2500mhz running at 4.2ghz, stable, on a 212 evo in push / pull. it was insane how good sandy was for longevity all thanks to how easily it was to push clocks sky high. out of the box it had strong single threaded performance, ease of overclocking, and surprisingly durability for such strong overclocks.>>108550865for me it was 2500k. now also on a 14900k.
>>108550496How many lanes nigga?
>>108550496because it was that good, they're also still perfectly usable
>>108551775>>108551604
Peak Millennial GPU? I think most of us couldn't afford one, but it was what everyone wanted.
>>108551794I had the 8800 GTS. The standard GT was for the poors. Though I wish I was able to afford the 8800 Ultra back then.
>>108552077Bro... the GTS was less powerful than the GT.
>>1085520778800gts was for the poors2900xt was for the chads
>>108550496hey, that's my CPU
>>108551794>I think most of us couldn't afford oneThis was in the era where GPU's weren't obscenely fucking expensive, especially here in bongland because the exchange rate with the dollar was great so 8800 GTs could be had for like £150. I remember buying an HD 3870 for £130 or so at the time.>>108552077>>108552105The 8800 series was a bit weird since the GT came later on a refreshed die that was such an improvement it made the GTS a bit pointless. I'm not sure why they even bothered with the refreshed GTS variants honestly.
>>108550514TSMTI'm using mine to this day
>>108550496A minor highlight compared to the Pentium 4.
>>108553098The pentium 4 was one of the worst cpus of all time lol
>>108550865I ran a 2600k for a very long time.Honestly it still has enough CPU oofm for most task these days. I still run it as my home server today.I ran my from 11-23 as well. End of windows 7 support for steam, ddr2 and pcie2 forced me off onto my new AMD rig.>>108551649This. Mine over clocked to 4.0gHz on just air. At the time these really was nothing better you could buy. AMD stuff was not competitive then.
>>108553181buying amd back then was a humiliation ritual
>>108553228I was an AMD fan from my first original Athlon, threw to the Athlon 64bit, Athlon X2, and finally my Athlon II X4 635. I switched to an i7-4690k, then an i7-6700k. Now I am back to AMD with my Ryzen 7 5800x.I miss mid 2000's AMD builds, they were comfy.
>>108550496yep now that was a CPU
>>108553140And yet the hype behind it was more than any other. Plus it was easy overclocked to a degree you just can't do with modern chips.
>>108550496It earned the hype, until ryzen
I had one, it was fucking legendary. I literally ended up framing it in my childhood bedroom because I’m from Costa Rica and it was manufactured there during the short time we had a state of the art foundry. Good times.
>>108550496i7 still mogs, even to this day, even an early gen i7
>>108550496I got a del optiplex i5 8500 4 gb ram pc 3200 from the company dumpster after they replaced all pcs. Bought a 3050 and 16gb ram before the crazy hike. 3050 5gb coz this max the psu can take. Could not find any dell oem with more wattageWaiting this year to replace them again so i can get the i5 12500 with 12gb ram
easy 5GHz on airproper soldering solution
2500k/16GiB RAM/GTX 970literally futureproof
>>108550496We still didn't until the last couple of years meant if you machine didn't support AVX/AVX2, it was done for and we crossed that threshold even before COVID when that became 90%+ of games with a modicum of budget and optimization needed at all especially when consoles reset their baseline to Zen 2 minimum. Not only Sandy Bridge but also Ivy Bridge and you needed to go to Haswell to actually keep doing okay with minimum instruction set support. Windows 11 basically has enforced x86-64-v3 so only trolls still push the meme at this point.
>>108554966gaming is not my benchmark for whether or not a computer part is worthwhile
>>108554754that's actually the only non-cringe reason I've ever seen for someone to display gaming hardware
Soon its going to be 5800X3D
>>108551010I ran an i5-3570k from 2012 to 2024.
>>108550496I got the i5-2400 instead because 2500ks were sold out. I ran it for 10 years only upgrading the gpu and maxing out the ram until TPM and safeboot requirements forced me to buy a new am5 system. I still have the core i5 system. Its still usable for day to day tasks like youtube, word and office work. I dont play games anymore because modern games are trash. And the few good ones that I liked like warzone patched me out with tpm 2.0 requirements
>>108557221First time i'm hearing of software using tpm
>>108550496To be fair it is a really good CPU, it's all you need for anything including modern gaming still. Just pair it with a good GPU, like a 3060 or better and you're golden.
>>108550496i used a 2600k up until 2021 or so, gave the pc to a friend and he still uses it to this day to play bf1 and cs2
all of you are assholes, you've always been assholes, fuck you all
>>108550496I'm still using mine after 15 years but it hit a wall with Unreal Engine 5 due to AVX2 and FMA.Guess it's time to upgrade, aside from the whole money thing.Then again, modern games are dog shit.
>>108557289>First time i'm hearing of software using tpmWindows 11 and Cod warzone do. I upgraded to am5 in 2022/23 when I could no longer use windows 7 on my pc. I had a windows 10 partition for work. But used windows 7 as my daily driver until I got patched out
it was kinda assmy first CPU but an 8700k blew it out of the waterthe upgrade from an 8700k to a 295k felt much less significant
>>108551010I used this one from 2012 to 2019. And it was immediately sold when i listed it. Was a good CPU.
PIII 600Lasted me for 8 years. From 1999 until 2007. I only had to retire it when newer video codecs became too demanding for it to handle
I got a 2500k the second it released here and overclocked the fuck out if. It ran at 4.8ghz for 10 years without a single problem. I should have sold it but I just chucked the entire thing in the bin when I put together my new system lol Thanks for asking.
Imagine having run a 386 with 16MHz for a decade until 1998. Would have been borderline impossible to do anything to 1998 standards at least. Using a 2016 CPU in 2026? Lol so what?
>>108560005When I started working at a factory in 2011, they handed me an old Pentium 4 machine. All I needed it for was running AutoCAD 2004 and checking emails. But man, it was pure suffering.If i was given a PC from 2016 for today's work, i probably wouldn't complain.
>>108560079Funnily P4 machines never ever felt fast to me. They always felt strained. Maybe I got that feeling because of the insane heat they produced to do -anything-. Was also the first PCs that spooled up like a jet engine for a second on boot. Icky systems in general.
>>108559931i never throw my computers away because they might get sad
>>108550496It was this and then the 3600.
>>108551010Same one, I ran it for a solid 8 years until 2021. I also never expected to upgrade only once in 14 years. Value.
>>108553140actually not bad but many did not have cooler for 100 watt tdp
>>108550514definitely the "old appliances were the best because they were built solid and to last" processor of the century.
>>108560079this was slav copy autocad and search engine email let me guess
>>108560005kids don't know just how much slower advancements are now, even the decade after what you mentioned; we went from Quake II to Crysis in the following 10 years
>>108550496For me it's the phenom II black edition x4.
>>108562677I remember reading about those outperforming the FX chips and feeling like I got scammed by AMD
>>108551165It was grim for a little bit. I got a full refund from Intel as a check in the mail eventually and then went to buy another from the store. The replacement 14900k has had no issues.
>>108550496Mines sitting in a display case
>>108562677t.
>7800X3D and 9800X3D28 PCIe lanes
>>108562677i had it and it was pretty bad at least for games.
