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Mayans were right about the world ending in 2012.
| Will i5-2500k with 8/16GB RAM be someday obsolete?
| For the power draw at the plug it makes sense to upgrade, unless you don't care about that either.
| Also video decoding hardware acceleration with newer formats might be a reason to make the jump
| >>687717
I don't care about your PSU.
If your CPU asks for less power for the same job the electricity bill is lower regardless of your PSU's max rating
| But hey, if it's "good enough" for you, then all's good :o
| >>687724
If you're gonna keep your hardware for 8 years, it might make sense to buy more energy-efficient hardware, depending on how much it runs, I'd have to do the math I guess...
Unless your computer's already off 95% of the time, because well when it's off...
well, it's off i guess •_ゝ•
| >>68770
Consumer space, yes. In enterprise (not prosumer) space, a lot have changed since 2012. As >>687716 said, architectural improvements have been made, allowing processors to be faster with less heat and power draw — which, you know, are important for servers.
I'm using a WAY older hardware than you are (Arrandale-based i3, i.e, the first-gen), and it's fine even for heavy tasks like building programs. I don't see an upgrade as a necessity either.
| Adding to what I said, plenty of things have changed. For instance, if I upgrade to, say, a Ryzen 9 I can get clock speeds and thread counts that were only viable in server-grade processors back in 2012.
Of course things do plateau. No more improvements like the Pentium leap, but I think things are starting to be refined instead of, you know, seeing leaps and bounds. Maturing is fine.
| The big leap is more cores currently, very important in a subset of tasks but lots of things are old and only use one or two threads
The average consumer who only uses a web browser would be fine with a raspberry pi as their daily setup, we've gone past the point that the average consumer needs more power to *function*, sure chrome runs faster on a brand new cpu but why when you can get a pi for $35
| Just because your use case is fine with a old i3 doesn't mean there's been no improvement
| E4600&2gDDR2 reporting in. OP is right. I believe any x86 processor supporting 64 bit instructions or any armv8-a+ with a few hundreds mb of ram will do for general use computer, with use cases like document processing, media playback and web. Though web is becoming more and more retarded every year, vital services are still nice and web2.0esque, hence usable.
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| IMO computer tech has already reached it's peak an will be stagnating for undefined amount of time, like car industry does for over 40 years. On paper there's shitload of innovations every year, but for one who haven't seen product's ad campaign they're unnoticeable. Shit is just too developed to progress any further without serious scientific breakthroughs.
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| Computers after 2012 barely improved. For games - sure but everything else? I'm still using an i3 3rd gen on desktop without any issues nor need to upgrade. I am starting to think that everything made in between 2008 and 2013 will probably last as daily drivers till 2025 if not longer.
If you're into newest vidya in 4k and rendering shit then yeah, getting something newer makes sense but apart from that? No reason at all...
What do you g/u/rls think about it?