Kaby Lake – one to avoid?

Unless you’re gaming at 4k or doing really heavy duty photo or video editing (or similar) why bother upgrading?

My media PC is a cheap Dell 3050, OK the storage is week but it does everything else I need it to.

My video editing is done in my refurb X220, with an SSD, and that flies along.

How many people actually need a desktop anymore? I could do the video editing on my K1 tablet and I have, it was fiddly but worked fine. Same goes for photos on the rare occasion I edit them.

I know of one desktop purchase purchase in the last 4 years, that was the Legion I go to and that was for security reasons.

Well, my last few purchases have been of the lower powered Intel chips and I’ve not been to impressed. The last desktop I purchased was one using an A10 AMD CPU and that’s my gaming rig – it plays what I need it to play (current game is Factario, which in fairness, is likely to play on something much older!) I’m not planning on updating it this year (though might update the graphics card as at the minute, I’m using the onboard graphics, though as I’m now longer playing Payday or any of the latest releases, that isn’t to much of an issue).

My X220 is about to become my main rig again though – I can tell the difference between that and my low powered Celeron box. But that’s probably a first gen i5 and I can’t tell the difference using a later gen i5 at work. Or I think I can but I believe that’s an SSD thing (i.e. I don’t have one at work and 4GB of RAM is killing the machine!)

Linus tech tips done a video comparing the flagship of each gen going back  10 years and it highlights exponentially shrinking returns of upgrading, and the fact that 2013 chip is much better (hp wise) over the new one.

If you have lipsync issues double click on the title in the top left of the video , this will take you direct to YouTube to view it.

My i7 920 paired with the gtx970, handles all I can chuck at it at 1080p. The only games it struggles with is transport world builder games, that are very CPU heavy. All it is is 1000s of spreadsheets continulously churning, bit the 920 can stuggel once world’s get complex.

But the likes of GTA it’s fine at the medium settings, and GTA there is not alot of different in grafical quality from med to high. There is a big jump from low to medium, that can be stained quite cheaply, but to get that last 5% in eye candy means major investment.

Project racing is also fine so have all my latest titles covered, and the old dog just keeps working. If I games alot I’d replace it as I think it’s a bit of a drinker , but as I go through fits and starts, didn’t hardly game stall this autumn, usuay my resume of year, I didn’t even see a price jump in my electric bill, I’ve seen it go up a thrid when I’m get in the grove.

Every year for the last 3 , iclve said the 920 will be moved to pastures new, bit each December it’s still here.

I recall buying the 920 on its release about 08ish, and a few on the forum said, don’t buy that socket there is no upgrade path. little did they know it was never going to become obselete. :wacko:

FS- we have this same back and forth about Evey 12 months. Lol

I don’t remember meeting?  :unsure:

But yes, 2013. And now 3 ever so seemingly long year of work down the line, when is retirement?

They’re gutting it now. All Engineering schools will be based in Mechanical/Chemical building. Physio will be taking the whole of electronics, apart from one floor where there will be some electronics labs.

You won’t do a specialised degree, it’ll be an Engineering degree with some specialisation, but not much. A waste in my opinion.

I concour. The mix up until my forced year of auto was a good foundation for engineering appreciation of wider concepts now.

The department was reacredited everyyear I was there by the imeche as they kept changing the syllabus that’s why I moved to physics for final year postgrad wooooo physics for life.

So so is the view now on Ka by lake, if you are building new get a 4 thread pentium?