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Dont know about you, but I'm waiting it out...

Gundog48

Gundog48

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At the moment I am using a AMD Phenom II x6 CPU which does the job perfectly for everything I do and will see me through a good few years, I'm sure this is the case for most users on here. So Sandy Bridge and Bulldozer are/have come out and now everyone is rushing for this technology, which I really don't understand.

I am an obsessive upgrader myself, but I also have money to consider. If I have a CPU now that is not bottlenecking anything why would I buy one of these new cores while the next generation AM4 and DDR4 gear is only a few years away? My CPU will easily last that long without bottlenecking and I'm pretty sure it is the same for most of you i7 people, so I will certainly give this platform a miss and wait for them to be developed and benefit from the faster speeds in a few years with my wallet in tact. Am I the only one who thinks this way?
 
Nah your not the only one thinking it, when i upgraded summer time last year, from a E8400 to my current rig, i did so knowing that new stuff was coming this year, but to me i couldn't be bothered waiting.

Nothing i throw at my Rig on a day to day basis makes it even break a sweat, so like yourself my rig will last a good few years to come, was the reason i upgraded when i did, so it would last that time, before i even have to consider changing.

Ok little additions now and then, still gotta feed that bug lol, but nothing major.
 
Although serial upgraders won't be able to help themselves 'upgrading' to the new platforms comming out, there's no real need to upgrade from current i7, i5, and i3 or Phenom II x4 and x6 when it does the job pretty well with most things.
 
No Gundog, you're not the only one. You hit the nail on the head when you said your cpu does everything you need it to do perfectly. In my opinion if you can say that about your pc then you have no real need to upgrade; unless you must have the latest tech and have plenty of money lying spare to fund it.

My Q6600 still does the job which I require it to do and so I probably won't be making the jump to Sandy Bridge anytime soon either.
 
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