How fast does hardware need to be before you just say its good enough?
>>108606635If I say "Wow" out loud to myself.
1000Hz with no stutters
>>108606635I don't need hardware, I use pen and paper for everythingYour post was read to me by my grandson, and he transcribed my reply and hit Post
core 2 quad
>>108606635I just upgraded to a 5600X and 9060 XT this winter and I finally feel like I have a PC that's up to modern standards. Always been on 10+ year old low budget hardware before.
>>108606635Do you remember when SSDs were not mandatory for your computer to not crawl? Bloat will eat all hardware you throw at it.
Being able to render my dream movie inside Blender within a timeframe that doesn't involve me becoming a skeleton.
>>108606635they make everything else slower to equalise it anyway. Web was (way) fucking faster on a Core2 XP.>waits half a fucking hour to postfuck this shit.
>>108606635depends on what you're doing, i guess. i'm almost always on my 8-year old thinkpad if i don't need to run games or ai shit on my desktop
>>108606635it's like the encryption race with cryptographic methods except its enshittified bloatware finding new and creative ways to eat exponentially more ram than before. it's neverending apparently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
>>108606635not that fast
>>108606635If no vidya this is enough for me.
Hardware will never be fast enough because shitters will find new horrible ways to make the worst code and have the fucking calculator lag.All progress hardware has made in the last four decades has entirely been negated by shitty software.
>>1086066356k Microled Monitor running at 1000hz with artificial flicker to remove motion blur + a PC that can run everything at that resolution and at those frames flawlessly
>>108607177>motherboard>Hewlett-Packardwtf
>>108606635If it runs everything I need at the time without issue, it's enough. I also don't buy a lot of new games or any of that shit, so I was still using a Windows XP build up until 2021.
>>108606635I built a workstation in 2016 and still use it. Geforce 1080. Added RAM in 2023 (64G total). Can't run the biggest slopfactory models locally. I assume therr are games I can't run but I don't even know which ones those might be. Most games I try run fine on my old GPU.
Dunno. Still running a 2600k and GTX 560 and it all works fine. I guess the only thing to give me pause would be mainsteam piracy moving on from h264 video.
>>108606635I got more slowdown and stutter from bad software than I do bad hardware.
>>108606635It doesn't have to get faster so you can do new things with it or things at increased fidelity that wasn't possible before.It needs to get faster jst so it can keep pace with the enshittification of software.What used to be a plain win32 program taking 2MB of RAM is now a web browser displaying a website pretending to be a program that allocates hundreds of megabytes for textures in the system compositor alone.There IE 8 used to run merrily on 256 MB of RAM, you now need way more than that for every tab. Not only does the browser need to keep 7 differently optimized versions of the same 14MB of React.js slop in RAM, you also need to run 10 different extensions to try to un-enshittify the website and restore functionality that used to be there.Shit's fucked.
hardware would have been fast enough in the 80s already, if programmers weren't lazy and didn't shit unoptimized code
>>108608477>t. wasn't alive in the 90s
>>108606635Never enough because shit software will always make it feel slow.
>>108608643A lot of modern software has gotten so bad that it literally does not matter what hardware it's running on.
>>108606682going from a single core to a quad core was life changing pc experience
>tfw I started PCing with a Pentium 133hz and 16MB RAM>mfw every time we did an upgrade back then we could physically see Windows loading times halve each time >doesn't happen anymoreIt was nice. Seeing the whole system from its core getting faster and your gaming FPS explode.
I don't know, but I always wanted photorealistic games, so that would be the minimum.
>>108606635If it can do everything I want it to do while drawing 50% power from the PSU, then it's good enough, because 50% power draw is the point of maximum efficiency.
holy Fucking plapsex
>>108606704it's still possible on linux without systemd, wayland and pipewire
