Quote Originally Posted by Jacky View Post
Welcome to yesterday to put it in your own words. There's never much of a point to update from one generation to another if you want cost-effective performance.
thats not true, i upgraded from a cheap athlonxp system to a cheap 754 system and the performance boost was quite noticeable... and going from 939 to c2d was quite a boost as well...

going from p3 to athlon or p4 was a big boost
going from athlon to athlonxp was a minor boost
going from athlon xp to k8 was a big boost
going from k8 to k10 was a minor boost
going from k10 to k10.5 was a minor boost
going from core2 to corei7 was a minor boost

lately the perf boosts by new cpus are smaller and smaller... cause they push for more and more cores which dont help in most scenarios, and most software is now written for mainstream, to run on as many systems as possible, even 5 year old ones... i guess those are the reasons...

Quote Originally Posted by Jacky View Post
It's called "iteration" and "evolution" for a reason. I don't think even the (r)evolutionary conroe release was any different, was there really a sudden need to upgrade from a solid K8 platform? Hardly.
there was a notable performance boost in my experience...
but yes, its not like you ever needed the latest gen cpu to really do something you couldnt do before...

Quote Originally Posted by Chickenfeed View Post
Couldn't agree more. It would cost me well over $1000 to go i7 and other than media encoding, I wouldn't gain much. The fact that there is still no USB3 and SATA III support makes it even more pointless. The only reason I could justify the upgrade for myself is if I was using a quad gpu system as the gains are substantial.
yeah but what will sata3 and usb3 be good for i ask you... running several ssds in raid maybe, but who does that? and will it really make a notable diference?
and usb3... faster external hdds, but do we really need that?