I have an E8400 that just won't die. It's already on its third motherboard and second set of ram modules, video card, and power supply.
Should I retire it or continue to give it life for as long as it continues to work?
>>51910910
Salute it with jizz & bury it in a graveyard.
you must buy some shitty hardware. My e8400 is still running fine OC'd to 3.8ghz on an ASUS motherboard and the original RAM.
>>51910910
my E4500 still "just works", even though it's almost 6 years old. It simply can't be killed.
>>51910910
Keep it until you actually need something better.
They're not supposed to die.
Processors are extremely durable. Older ones especially, with the larger transistors.
These things only die randomly when cosmic rays hit them. Really.
When it comes to age, these things will last decades.
>>51911042
that time is now
duocores struggle with fallout 4
CPU's don't really break that easily.
If you're still fine with it, there's no reason to put it away, as it's still fast enough for everyday browsing.
A new i3 will provide a much more fluid computing experience though.
>>51911054
>gay
>men
>>51911063
this is true, >>51911029 CP here. I use it with an SSD, and it's simply enough for basic tasks, and games up to 2006.
Maybe you should convert that workstation to a server or NAS..
>>51911054
that's funny because Fallout NW struggles with more than two cores.
>>51911005
>>51911029
My OC'd q6600 is nearly 10 years old and still going strong with the original MB and ram (which I added some a few years ago).
>>51911277
Never had a problem with fallout new vegas.
I have my old E8600 / HD4870 system to my brother a few years ago. The motherboard just died this week, got a replacement for £15 and its back in action.
Still a great media consumption box.
>>51910910
They have no moving parts. The odds of failure after a year are pretty slim if you use it within the recommended settings.
As said already, unless you literally fry it, that shit will last longer than you.
>>51910910
New for you, my son: It'll never stop working.
Just replaced my e8500 for modded Xeon x5470 Clocked it to 4Ghz
Feels good.
Can vidya again
Retire it and replace it with a lga771 quadcore Xeon. :)
>>51911926
>Just replaced my e8500 for modded Xeon x5470
>Clocked it to 4Ghz
You did good.
>>51911052
or if they overheat
or if there's too much voltage (which fries it via heat)
or if there's 'dirty power' ie a non consistant voltage... although if that's a problem there's something seriously wrong with your mobo/PSU capacitors
>>51910910
>core2
>diying
Bitch, that shit will outlive you
I sold my core2quad for the same reason, 3 mobos dead and the fag still kicking even with 8 years of extreme OC
>>51910910
>cpu
>die
I dont think you understand how technology works. When your cpu dies, as in anything goes wrong like 1 out of 6 million transistors, your computer wont work anymore.
>>51911331
EVGA 750i with Q6600 B3 here.
Gave it to my stepdad, it's currently running at 2.85GHz though.
>>51910910
Send it to Valhalla with a day of extreme overclocking
>>51910910
I have e6750 that is still in use.
I say keep it until it dies as it should.
>>51912039
Ive tried to kill a processor. I failed. I set the volts to max my mobo can handle and freq to the max that would still post. Ran at well over 90c and shut down it when it got over 105, couldn't even boot to windows. But after i set everything back to stock, it worked fine. So in conclusion its pretty hard to kill a cpu, ive never seen it done. (Outside of mechanical damage)
>>51914639
Since thermal shutdown became a thing is pretty much impossible to get a chip
>>51910910
Every time I get a Core 2 series whether it be the Pentium/Celeron/Duo/Quad variants in the shop, I fix it up, replace the parts as needed and send it back out for many more years of service.
Most of the people don't actually need i5/i7s, most games run fine on i3s, even modern triple AAA titles, one of the reasons the Pentium G3258 was so popular was it was cheap and played anything that didn't require 4 threads.
Everything is GPU accelerated these days so with a decent budget GPU like the 750ti, and maybe a SSD upgrade most of the Core 2 series would be sufficient for most of the normies who watch 1080P videos, and play games.
Most gamers don't actually max-out all their settings and even more of them don't game at 1080P as evident from the Steam hardware surveys. Hell a good chunk of people are playing on slow ass shit laptops with something like a 940M and 1366*768 screen.
A Core 2 Series and a 750ti would beat those laptops easily.
>>51915599
i work in a computer repair shop and I recently had a guy bring in two old ass Dell XPS's that have core 2 quads in them
we replaced the PSUs, hard drives, and GPUs and they ran every single new AAA game we threw at them. Some not well, but still were getting over 20FPS.
>>51916010
With all the new games being console titles it's not hard to slap a decent GPU in a C2D/C2Q box and have a "console killer"
>>51915599
>even modern triple AAA titles
So AAAAAAAAA games?
Jokes aside should I get an i3 4170? I heard it's breddy gud for games but dunno, I feel like I should get an i5 for futureproofing. Been eyeing the 4460 or the 4590, but the 4170's price is so damn tempting
I'm not going to do anything more intensive than gaming, some light photoshopping and making webbums
>>51916439
One of the main reasons I'm considering the i5 is that I'd like to do some emulation too and I hear PS2 emulation requires a pretty beefy CPU
Does emulation benefit from more cores, or is it all about raw clock speed?
![CPU_01[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/hlKSe0w.png "CPU_01[1].png")
>>51916439
The 4170 will do better than the 4130
>>51916511
But I didn't mention the 4130 anywhere
The options are i3 4170 or i5 4460, maybe i5 4590 if I stretch the budget a little bit further
>>51916475
If emulation benefited from more cores they wouldn't recommend Intel over AMD for emulation.
>>51916575
The point is that it will do better than the 4130 and the 4130 gets pretty close to the i5s
>>51911926
How much did that cost you? Can you post a link for the guide?
>>51911108
>CP here
party van incomming
>>51910910
Cpus dont die. They have an incredibly long life span and every time your cpu looks broken it will be the motherboard that's actually broken, just like rams. There are mainly 4 things that break
Motherboards
Gpus
Hdds
And network cards (lightnings fuck them up)
>>51916475
Four cores will be better than two cores in games, maybe not current games but certainly future ones
when emulating, the i5 can turboboost and go from 4 [email protected] ghz or whatever to 2 cores 3.6 ghz which is virtually the same as the i3
>>51910910
>>51911029
I have both an E8500 from my previous main, and an E4500 on a salvaged computer that was going into the thrash, but I brought it home.
In 8 years only the PSU on the salvaged PC died.
What is wrong with you? You live near Tesla's lab?
>>51916682
A decent bios/uefi will allow you to disable the turbo and apply your OC to all cores, rendering your point moot.
>>51917048
None of the CPUs the guy mentioned are overclockable
>>51910910
>Should I retire it or continue to give it life for as long as it continues to work?
Why? If it performs in accordance with your expectations, keep on going. If it doesn't, get something else.
>>51917656
A lot of people think that you have to dump old stuff simply because new stuff exists, even if the old thing still works perfectly fine.
>>51917680
Yeah, I don't really get it. It's not like there's such thing as hardware e-dick anymore since good systems are so cheap now and there's nothing exciting in consumer tech anymore anyway.
I still have my 7 years old E8200 paired with GeForce 9600 GT.
Currently running Windows POSReady 2009, but it's still same old XP which I did already use all the time back then. Should I put Arch on it? Or is there any other loonix distro that is lightweight and just as well documented?
