IMO, the performance gains from a faster processor have been in the too
little gain category for a number of years. If old processor X can do an
operation in 1 ms, and the twice as fast processor Y can do the same
operation in 0.5 ms, are you going to notice the difference? Meh.
OTOH, if your 6GB of memory means you are swapping 100 times/sec, going
to 16 GB would eliminate all those swaps. Going to mo' memory is almost
always a winner, and cost effective too.
For the icing on the cake, going full SSD (or maybe one of those new
hybrid jobs from Seagate) would reduce the time to snatch something from
storage from hundreds of milliseconds to under a dozen. Yeah, you would
notice that big time.
The big thing on the horizon is storage class memory; where you won't
need an SSD or rotating memory at all. This will change everything.
bp
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On 9/16/2017 8:02 AM, George Skorup wrote:
So I'm still running on my "vintage" i7-920/X58 system at home. I
don't do a lot of gaming. Maybe BF4 once in a while. Got 6GB of RAM
and a WD SATA3 spinner in it and it's fine for the most part.
Upgrade right now to an i7-7700/Z270 (which is twice as fast as the
920/X58 and uses 1/3 of the power), with 16GB of RAM and an NVMe SSD
on top should fly. Or wait for the i7/i9 X-series and X299 chipset to
mature a bit more. Kinda leaning towards waiting a bit since the the
X-series has much better multi-core performance. 7700 vs 7800X would
be something like 15-20% better, just not sure it's worth it. All of
the extra PCIe lanes w/ the X-series is kinda meh to me since I don't
plan on running more than one PCIe GPU. Plus the 7800X is back up to
using the power of the 920. But quad-core 7700 vs 6-core 7800X w/
better multi-core and upgrade to i9 later.
I'm torn.
