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What processor do you use?

What processor do you use?

  • Intel 8th Gen (Coffee Lake)

    Votes: 3,042 11.7%

  • Intel 7th Gen (Kaby Lake)

    Votes: 1,717 6.6%

  • Intel 6th Gen (Skylake)

    Votes: 2,633 10.1%

  • Intel 4th Gen (Haswell)

    Votes: 4,880 18.7%

  • Intel 3rd & 2nd Gen (IVB & SB)

    Votes: 4,408 16.9%

  • AMD Ryzen Gen 2

    Votes: 2,289 8.8%

  • AMD Ryzen

    Votes: 3,975 15.3%

  • AMD Threadripper

    Votes: 605 2.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 2,495 9.6%
  • Total voters
    26,044
  • Poll closed .
2500k.

Unfortunately Kingdom Come is making it cry :laugh:
 
i7-5820K
 
Skylake because base clock overclock on non-k makes me feel like I'm sticking it to the man.
 
I've got a 5820K in main rig, 8700K in another Gaming Rig, 1700X Test Bench, 2700X Lan system, 2400G in an HTPC, and last but not least 6700K in another lan build. :)
 
I've got a i5 6500 in my main rig, i7 4700MQ in my laptop and a i7 2600k in my htpc
 
still run G4400, i need something that not killing my bill especially when i don't need much power:D:D:kookoo:
 
eighty-six-hundred, kay? :D
 
FX8350 here as shown in system specs.
 
FX8350 - Don't play games anymore, latest hobby is photography, touching up photos and compiling videos it has plenty of power. Some photo software is GPU aware too, so it uses 8 cores + GPU and finishes my tasks in no time.
 
suraswami said:
FX8350 - Don't play games anymore, latest hobby is photography, touching up photos and compiling videos it has plenty of power. Some photo software is GPU aware too, so it uses 8 cores + GPU and finishes my tasks in no time.
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Anytime you can use CPU and GPU power together on your tasks, your cooking with gas. I wish that we could do that for all of our workloads

I have a quad SLI setup that I have yet to use.
 
Wow, more than 1/3 of us are still using chips which existed 5 years ago. Indicative of CPU winning the race against software for a lot of us?
 
Just downgraded my Ivy Bridge based system (i5 3570K) to 775 Xeon platform, and it surprised me in a good way, I excepted a bigger performance drop
Hi-end 775 platform is still usable for a lot of tasks, including gaming
 
Wow, really surprised to see the results! I thought it's just a few of us left using Ivy Bridge processors.
I7 4790K @4.7. Overclocked since day one and still going strong.
 
I'm coming up to a decade now on the same CPU, and still don't feel the need to upgrade.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
 
I'm on a X58 based Xeon X5680 currently. Was on an i7-5820k. The performance differences are minimal for what I do most of the time. And game performance differences are within a statistical margin of error.
Fluffmeister said:
I'm coming up to a decade now on the same CPU, and still don't feel the need to upgrade.
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Don't see myself upgrading anytime soon either..
Fluffmeister said:
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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I lean towards laughing.
Fourstaff said:
Wow, more than 1/3 of us are still using chips which existed 5 years ago. Indicative of CPU winning the race against software for a lot of us?
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Exactly.
 
Core i3-4330 here. Planning upgrade to a Ryzen 2600X, only because I need the extra cores (otherwise I'm satisfied with its single thread performance) and to give my current system away to my mom. She still works with a Celeron 847 (Sandy-Bridge, 1.1 Ghz, dual core) laptop, it's only saving grace being 8 GB of DDR3.
 
1950x @4 wont upgarde tell ddr5 or pcie 4.0
 
I use:
1. Intel Core i7 6700K Skylake in the main system,
2. Intel C2D P8700 Penryn 3M (to be replaced with C2D T9900 Penryn as soon as it arrives) in my laptop

I don't use:
3. AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton - dead, keeping it as a souvenir
4. Intel C2D E7400 Wolfdale 3M - in good condition, working, will make a keychain out of it and give it to my young cousin as a gift
5. * Intel Xeon W3530 Bloomfield - waiting to arrive, working, mint condition, will make it keychain-compatible (this one is for me) :D
 
My second PC at home with

Core 2 Xtreme X6800 3.3Ghz
ECS nFORCE 570 SLI-A motherboard (when nVIDIA used to make chipsets :))
8MB of DDR2
EVGA GeForce 960 FTW
Samsung 850 EVO
WIndows 7

It run everything from EVE Online, Dawn of War III, World of Warcraft etc just fine even at max settings. Combined with a SSD this system is surprisingly very responsive.
One of these days I might upgrade to AMD Ryzen 3 2200G but for now it does everything it's suppose to. This processor was an upgrade from Pentium II/ Intel 44B0X board.
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Do I include my gaming laptops too? If so I also have a Kabylake 7700hq, Haswell 4710hq as my main gamers.
 
lexluthermiester said:
I'm on a X58 based Xeon X5680 currently. Was on an i7-5820k. The performance differences are minimal for what I do most of the time. And game performance differences are within a statistical margin of error.

Don't see myself upgrading anytime soon either..

I lean towards laughing.

Exactly.
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People pay a lot of money for old CPU and old board on eBay, upgrading from IVB to CFL made sense for me. It ended up being like $100 out of pocket to upgrade from 3770K and Z77-UD3H to 8600K and Z370 Taichi. It would have been a free upgrade with nothing out of pocket if I went with a i5-8400 and a cheaper motherboard. I am very happy with the 8600K and the Z370 Taichi. Latency seems improved in games and I am on a newer motherboard, once the socket is off shelves for a few years it becomes hard to source replacement motherboards, I also migrated to DDR4 (at a steep cost unfortunately), and have NVME capability.

mcraygsx said:
My second PC at home with

Core 2 Xtreme X6800 3.3Ghz
ECS nFORCE 570 SLI-A motherboard (when nVIDIA used to make chipsets :))
8MB of DDR2
EVGA GeForce 960 FTW
Samsung 850 EVO
WIndows 7

It run everything from EVE Online, Dawn of War III, World of Warcraft etc just fine even at max settings. Combined with a SSD this system is surprisingly very responsive.
One of these days I might upgrade to AMD Ryzen 3 2200G but for now it does everything it's suppose to. This processor was an upgrade from Pentium II/ Intel 44B0X board.
6uroImL.jpg
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That is really impressive.
 
mcraygsx said:
My second PC at home with

Core 2 Xtreme X6800 3.3Ghz
ECS nFORCE 570 SLI-A motherboard (when nVIDIA used to make chipsets :))
8MB of DDR2
EVGA GeForce 960 FTW
Samsung 850 EVO
WIndows 7

It run everything from EVE Online, Dawn of War III, World of Warcraft etc just fine even at max settings. Combined with a SSD this system is surprisingly very responsive.
One of these days I might upgrade to AMD Ryzen 3 2200G but for now it does everything it's suppose to. This processor was an upgrade from Pentium II/ Intel 44B0X board.
6uroImL.jpg
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Wow! Talk about a blast from the past!
 
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