Subj : To Build or Not to Build?
To   : Accession
From : Mortar
Date : Fri May 23 2025 22:36:11

  Re: Intel: Once mighty, now falling?
  By: Accession to tenser on Thu May 22 2025 18:17:24

 > Either way, not a great time to be in the market, and I'm glad
 > I'm currently not. ;)

No law says you have to go for the latest and greatest.  As long as the new CPU is better than the one you have now, you'll likely get better performance.

 > Now you see where my price point was. ~$500 for the whole setup, which
 > included 32gb RAM, and me buying 4 2TB 10k HDDs.

When you say, "whole setup", does that include case, power supply, graphics card, cooling, etc.?  If it does, and you can get it, I wanna know where you got it.

 > At the moment I'm running 3 VMs, with 2 cores and 4gb RAM dedicated for
 > each. I have plenty of RAM and HDD space left over currently.

Then I wouldn't worry about upgrading.  If your system isn't physically failing, and you can do everything you want to do...fugget about it!

 > I do some gaming, yet I don't usually bother with 4k as it all looks the
 > same after 1080p (lol) when FPS is concerned.

Absolutely.  If I can have 60 FPS, I'm a happy camper.

 >...I'm not really interested in the portability or anything, which is why I
 > tick with desktops (and build them myself).

Same here.  I do have a laptop but I use at work, and a Surface I use as a backup in case my desktop goes kaput, otherwise it's desktop all the way.

 > I may end up doing an AMD build next. That probably won't be for another few
 > years, though, as what I have now is still kickin' strong.

And that's all that matters.  If it is gonna be a few years, get ready for a bunch of changes.  Since it's usually years between builds, I have to reacquaint myself to the current tech.

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