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Anyone still using a 3970x ?
- Thread starter Alisdair
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Im on a 3930k, i've considered an upgrade but in the end went against it. It still does everything i need even now, which is mainly gaming at 1080p ultrawide with the odd encoding now and again. I anticipate swapping the fury out before the 3930k.
I think it's still a very capable CPU.
When CPU's first appeared, each generation was typically twice as fast as the last, and each time you could really see a difference. But as time has gone by the percentage increase of each release has fallen. Having compared loads of PC's it started to get difficult to tell once the performance increase went below 30%. This is when they first started to introduce benchmarks, because it was just no longer possible to tell if a CPU was faster than the previous release. I am absolutely certain that if you bench-marked a current CPU compared to the 3970 you would see a wonderful performance increase, but honestly, depending what you do with your CPU, you are pretty unlikely to actually notice a difference in real life applications. Usually there is far more to be gained by replacing the graphics card, which are still in the golden era of massive increases in performance every new release, but CPU's? No. You can happily give it a few years yet. Unless, of course, you just want ( like many people here ) to keep on the edge all the time.
When CPU's first appeared, each generation was typically twice as fast as the last, and each time you could really see a difference. But as time has gone by the percentage increase of each release has fallen. Having compared loads of PC's it started to get difficult to tell once the performance increase went below 30%. This is when they first started to introduce benchmarks, because it was just no longer possible to tell if a CPU was faster than the previous release. I am absolutely certain that if you bench-marked a current CPU compared to the 3970 you would see a wonderful performance increase, but honestly, depending what you do with your CPU, you are pretty unlikely to actually notice a difference in real life applications. Usually there is far more to be gained by replacing the graphics card, which are still in the golden era of massive increases in performance every new release, but CPU's? No. You can happily give it a few years yet. Unless, of course, you just want ( like many people here ) to keep on the edge all the time.
Still rocking an I7 3930k here too. Doesn't miss a beat and as I don't really benchmark (just game and browsing) it's fine, I care not for e-peen, those days are long behind me. No need for me to have the latest CPU's just for a forum signature.
I just upgraded my i7 3930k to an i9 7900X. Still waiting for the machine to arrive.
I felt that the 3930k was getting a bit slow with video rendering and I needed to get brand new storage and RAM anyway so I thought, sod it, and upgraded the whole machine. Hopefully I won't be disappointed. Upgraded the GPU as well so hopefully games will show an improvement as well.
I felt that the 3930k was getting a bit slow with video rendering and I needed to get brand new storage and RAM anyway so I thought, sod it, and upgraded the whole machine. Hopefully I won't be disappointed. Upgraded the GPU as well so hopefully games will show an improvement as well.
