| JEMC said: Intel Coffee Lake processor reviews are not up! Here's a roundup of several of them: https://videocardz.com/73089/intel-8th-gen-core-coffee-lake-s-review-roundup |
Some good gains there... I say "good" only because we had gotten used to 0-5% gains each year.
Going from benchmarks I am looking at a 25-35% increase across the spectrum when compared to my 6 year old 3930K, whilst using 30w of power less.
It has made the LGA 2066 Quad and Hex core chips absolutely worthless buys in my opinion.
If you are running Nahelem, Phenom or FX, this is a great chip to upgrade to... Keen to see what next year brings with Ryzen 2 and Ice Lake, we do need some IPC gains.
| VGPolyglot said: The thing is, I'm not very familiar with PCs and building them myself, so I'd be at a total loss if I wanted to build a PC from that era, and would also not know where to get the components at a fair price. |
Well. If you were in Aus, then I would say swap meets, computer recyclers and so on.
But looking for a working Pentium 3 Tualatin or a Duron Applebred at 1.4Ghz or better would be ideal as a base system, then upgrade the GPU's, maybe throw in more Ram... And and whack in an SSD. (Might need an IDE to Sata adapter for some rigs though.)
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