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Feb 23 2026 05:21am
All that shit about future proof was crap. My 4930k from 2012 is STILL going strong though my 2080ti could use some new thermal paste.

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Feb 23 2026 05:40am
I mean; it's subjective to what you throw at it and use it for.

Six year old 5900X and RTX3070 here ran out of headroom on an ultrawide 1440p monitor. Shit could play just about any game at 1080p in high/ultra settings comfortably in the 100 fps+ range. But the 8gb VRAM limitation really had made most games require tuning, setting adjustments and overall quality changes just to get near 60fps.

Didn't think I'd notice much of a difference going to AM5 - but switching to 7600x with a 5070ti in a proper PCI-5 laned mobo, nvme, ram etc made a world of difference in all measurable ways. Boot times, game fidelity, transfer speeds to and from my 10gBit Nas.

Graphics card alone could have bought the 5900X another four or five years without issue - that thing was a work horse, but I'm not a "light use" user, so I do run into hardware failures (Primarily hard drives) and swapping PSU's to support newer graphics cards - then a case to account for clearance (old case was small form factor) and it becomes a "Well, while I'm here" snowball to committing to a build.
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Feb 25 2026 11:25am
I'm still running x99, old server hardware - I was forced to upgrade from sandy bridge due to avx limitations but was otherwise still happy with the performance.

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