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Pemalite said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Yeah, if you bought a 3820 8 years ago now you're still good today. And it's only slightly weaker than a 10th Gen i5 despite the selling price at the time wasn't much higher than the one of the i5 10600 today ($283 for the 3820, so just $70 less for the non-K version, and a paltry $20 more than a 10600K today). It's biggest drawback today is probably not it's performance, but that it's on a hopelessy outdated platform.

PCI-E 3.0, Sata 3, DDR3 Quad channel, 3930K.

Yeah, but DDR3 is dead by now, meaning any change in Memory would cost you an arm and a leg now, and it has no M.2. Which is what I meant with hopelessly outdated performance, upgrading that PC is, apart from the GPU or some extension card, pretty much impossible by now. And PCI-E 3.0 could soon become another limiting factor for GPUs.

Also, little error from myself: The 3820 is still a 4c/8t, only the 3930K and up are 6c/12t.

It also shows how stagnant the PC CPU market was when AMD was a non-factor. On the GPU side, we're far away from Kepler or GCN 1 GPUs that were probably originally in your build, but on the CPU side, the evolution was so much slower that your chip is still a viable option for both gaming and content creation to this day.