What's the point of using anything more powerful than an
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What's the point of using anything more powerful than an E8400? You use the GPU or AWS for any serious computation anyway.
You need a stonger CPU for VR.
>>55038456
VR is a toy for kids
>>55038466
Good thing most people on this board are kids then :D
>>55038429
I need it for mi gaems and sweet sweet fps(firstpersonsseconds) anyway :^)
>>55038507
>>55038472
Summer summer, go away.
KYS another day.
>>55038429
Some people like to own the computation devices, for one reason or another.
Privacy, more customizable...
Modern website are so fucking garbage that even a high end 10 year old CPU will suffer.
>>55038429
because an e5450 xeon has 2x the l2 cache
>>55038541
>>55038429
Music software rely pretty much only on CPU and ram. GPU is pretty useless outside of graphic stuff.
>>55038466
Yeah! Real men run Gentoo on their $100 eBay Thinkpads!
>>55041716
They sure as hell don't waste money on useless toys
For basic shit
>browsing, videos, movies
Even a Pentium 4, 2+gb and 256mb card will be ok