What kind of computer does the average CP'er use?

[Mephistopheles Janx]

Originally Posted by Frazod

My system is about six years old now. Did most of the build myself, under the close supervision of my IT buddy, whose instructions I followed to the letter.

3.50 gigahertz Intel Core i7-4770K
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z97-A Rev 1 motherboard
16K RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Still runs great and I haven't had any issues with it. Which is good, because I understand PC components are currently in short supply and ungodly expensive.

Have you given any consideration to overclocking the processor? The CPU we are both using is already the bottleneck for the video card I'm using... and yours has more umph than mine.

I've been able to get to 4.4GHz with complete stability but the fan is SO ****ING LOUD.

I recently had the opportunity to build a new rig (ie, I got hands on a 3070 but let my brother have it) but I decided to hold off. Even if I build a new system based on the 11th gen i9 11900k (I wouldn't... I would build an i5 11600k if I was going to build a modern rig today), I would "only" be getting a performance increase of 41% in a span of 8 years. I was coming from a Core 2 Duo E8400 when I upgraded to the 4770k and that was a 72% performance increase in a span of 5 years.

It just doesn't seem worth it to me to upgrade yet. Perhaps the 12th gen Intel processor is gonna give me that performance bump of 70% I'm looking for. As it stands... my rig can still play any game I throw at it. Even at 3440x1440.