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Vimes said:
For me that has not happened for a long time. Maybe I need to leave it longer before I bother to upgrade..?
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Indeed, I only upgrade when I get more than double CPU performance:

386sx25 -> P60@66 -> P150@187 -> 300A@464 -> [email protected] -> [email protected] -> [email protected].

The i5-2500k @ ~4.5GHz is the first chip I'm considering as a next step, but probably won't bother 'til the autumn when they'll be something a little better.
 
clv101 said:
Indeed, I only upgrade when I get more than double CPU performance:

386sx25 -> P60@66 -> P150@187 -> 300A@464 -> [email protected] -> [email protected] -> [email protected].

The i5-2500k @ ~4.5GHz is the first chip I'm considering as a next step, but probably won't bother 'til the autumn when they'll be something a little better.
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I do agree as I remember the difference between my 386sx25 when I upgraded it to a 486dx2 66. As these Sandy Bridge chips and motherboards have shown to me they represent merely incremental differences from their last offering I can let pass me by knowing that I'll not miss much with what I have got.
 
Vimes said:
I do agree as I remember the difference between my 386sx25 when I upgraded it to a 486dx2 66. As these Sandy Bridge chips and motherboards have shown to me they represent merely incremental differences from their last offering I can let pass me by knowing that I'll not miss much with what I have got.
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This is more due to the fact that daily software hardly stresses any top end chip.
 
Vimes said:
I do agree as I remember the difference between my 386sx25 when I upgraded it to a 486dx2 66. As these Sandy Bridge chips and motherboards have shown to me they represent merely incremental differences from their last offering I can let pass me by knowing that I'll not miss much with what I have got.
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Yeah, never buy the next increment. When you went from the 386sx25 to 486dx2 66, you jumped past the 386dx, the 486sx, the 40 and 50MHz chips. Basically that jump was from June 1988 to June 1993. Yeah, I was surprised when I looked that up. 5 years between that 386 and the 486.

The same five years back from Springfield gives us the Cedar Mill Prescott 3 GHz up to 3.6 GHz. The frist Core 2 Duo E6600 are only 4.5 years old. So yeah, Springfield is a HUGE improvement over the Prescott P4, and to be honest, it's also pretty big improvement over the E6600.
 
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