5 lost years of progress, will components now wear out instead of becoming obsolete?

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stator wrote: »

Aren't AMD still crap when it comes to Single threaded performance?
Most software still seems to be single threaded and so that's the main factor for me, although 4 cores is a minimum, most of the time you are thrashing one core and the others are doing litt.e

Depends on the program your running. In synthetic benchmarks then yes the Intel CPU may score higher but in real life will you notice the difference?

I went to the R1700 and its great, I leave VM's churning away in the background and my desktop is still lag free.

Rendering 3D files previously I did wonder a few times whether it was still working or had it crashed. Not anymore.

Sometimes a cheaper CPU will run faster than a all singing all dancing wallet busting CPU. Some games the i3's get better framerates than an i7.