Why Some Still Use Last Gen?

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Just curious, was surfing Newegg and reading some reviews on the 1366 990 Extreme. There are still people buying them today even though Sandy/Ivybridge has been out for some time. Why do some still fork over a grand for a last gen processor?
 
JL6speed said:
Just curious, was surfing Newegg and reading some reviews on the 1366 990 Extreme. There are still people buying them today even though Sandy/Ivybridge has been out for some time. Why do some still fork over a grand for a last gen processor?
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I don't know. You can get a Core i7 3930K and a Rampage IV Extreme for that price. So it isn't as if it makes sense to spend that kind of money to drop a faster CPU into an X58 board.
 
JL6speed said:
Just curious, was surfing Newegg and reading some reviews on the 1366 990 Extreme. There are still people buying them today even though Sandy/Ivybridge has been out for some time. Why do some still fork over a grand for a last gen processor?
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I certainly would not do that. However almost 1 year ago I forked out ~$356 for a new i7 970 (eBay price - I assume Intel Retail Edge was in play) even though it was a few generations old.
 
SB and IB were pretty minor upgrades and not really worth the upgrade TBH (plus the new CPUs are boring to OC :D). But, buying a new 990x for full price now seems kind of silly (i'd pick one up for say $300 to play with the unlocked multi and for the extra cores). Unless you break someone elses while you are watching their house...
 
Probably a lot of them are reviews posted now even though they bought it a long time ago. People seem to come back after 2 or 3 years saying "I bought it in 2010 but.."
 
I just upgraded to an i7 860 (from a Phenom II 955BE), it was a cheap upgrade. I usually run a gen or two behind the latest... I hate paying full price for anything :)
 
Yea.... I was just curious to see if there was any particular reasons or advantages to sticking w/ a last gen Extreme processor when you can get similar / faster performance current gen for 1/2-1/3 the price, considering the 990 Extreme still sells for > $1000.
 
Yeah, I thought about going for a 970 or something to get hex core, but the pricing on these 1366 chips are still pretty insane. You're better off going with SB/IB and a mobo for the price of one of those chips.

Still pretty happy with my 920, though. Gonna wait until Haswell to see if it's worth upgrading.
 
sinclair-zx81 said:
I just upgraded to an i7 860 (from a Phenom II 955BE), it was a cheap upgrade. I usually run a gen or two behind the latest... I hate paying full price for anything :)
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still rocking my i7-860 i got about 2 years ago for $150. not a bad deal at all. not ready to upgrade either. maybe next generation i'll get an i3 or i5, i7 is lasting me too long and i have the upgrade itch!
 
Still rocking my Q9550 and GTX 295 and 8Gb 1066 Ram. Havent really came across any games to stress the prowess of my system. OC to 4.0, and gfx oc just alittle too. I actually went through and bought a Sandy Bridge 2600K. It was cheap BNIB. Sold it locally still BNIB, and a good amount of profit. Was going to pick motherboard, ram, and stuff for it. I canned it. Built me a server instead. I really dont make use of too much power on my system, but from a single core celeron, dual core pentium, to a quad core 2 series made a big difference. Got it hand me down aswell. I helped my friend build a i7 960 system, full build. cuz he thought his Q9550 and mobo fried. Found it in the closet. He said I can have it if I can get it to turn on. Built the system with extra parts. Bought some parts here in the buy and sell. Sold off old parts, and actually built another core 2 duo system. Sold that system. Now I am looking to getting Ivy Bridge 3770k, and a GTX 680 in a Small Form Factor Case. Just want a gaming system, to run Hyperspin per my other thread. I wouldnt mine a Sandy Bridge E system, with a GTX 690. But still wouldnt know what to do with that much power. I mean, all the games I play are fighting games. I max it out with my system now. Street X Tekken, Super Street Fighter Arcade Edition. Hmm, well see. Haswell seems entertaining.
 
Still on the X58 chipset myself, rocking with a 980x es cpu, 3 gtx480's, Rampage iii extreme (sold the RIIE, paid extra $70 for the RIIIE), 24GB worth of Mushkin goodness and 11TB worth of data all in an Antec P280 I can't see myself upgrading for a long time, although depending on the workload I will be getting after I graduate, I might go straight to a Dual 8/10 core Xeon platform when I'm working in the industry.

Depending on how ATi's next gen gpu's go, I might build a bitcoin mining rig, since ATi's processing power when it comes to bitcoin mining is at least triple that of nvidia's gpu high end range
 
could be a replacement CPU for a rig they already have alot of money invested in... possibly for work or something
 
MrGuvernment said:
could be a replacement CPU for a rig they already have alot of money invested in... possibly for work or something
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This would be my guess. Despite having worked in state government in the past, it still surprises me how government/business makes spending decisions. It's entirely possible that in some situations an expensive cpu upgrade would be approved or fall under the radar whereas purchasing multiple, better parts would require review which would make it an impossible purchase.
 
I bought a 980X used almost a year ago. I definitely didn't pay retail. I feel no need to upgrade for quite a while.

If my CPU (and nothing else, as unlikely as that is) died tomorrow I definitely wouldn't buy new to replace it. Not sure I'd make the jump to 2011 if everything else still worked.
 
lets see new laptop with third gen i7 or get a 2nd gen i7 from the outlet store for $500 less....humm not a tough choice
 
ekuest said:
still rocking my i7-860 i got about 2 years ago for $150. not a bad deal at all. not ready to upgrade either. maybe next generation i'll get an i3 or i5, i7 is lasting me too long and i have the upgrade itch!
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If I didn't get a screaming deal on my e3 and M4Gene, I'd still be running my x58 rig.
 
Why Some Still Use Last Gen?
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Alright, I know at least one answer to this. There are a whole lot of people out there that are very smart in their own fields, but simply do not want to bother with spending the time to learn about computers. Like their cars, they simply want them to work, and they are willing to spend a lot of money to buy good performing parts, too. I know one such person, and the way he explained it to me, it sort of made sense. Remember, I said 'sort of'. He's a chef. He can work wonders with food. He also works on his car and can do most any fixes on his house, electrical, plumbing, basic carpentry, etc. He learned all this when we were back in our teens and twenties. He also knows the simple basics about putting his computers together, but doesn't want to spend any more time than necessary. He has several computers, all identical. Says it's simpler that way, set up one, and then do them all the same. He has two houses, and surprise surprise, all the appliances are identical. Same breaker box, twin sets of cooking, as well as mechanical tools in both houses. Right now, everything works. But I do remember back when he was running Shuttle boxes, and the capacitors went bad, he went through a lot of trouble to replace one with another identical box even though it was a few years old and took him a while to find one on fleabay. So if you have that kind of person, and they have one computer they like and need or want another, it's not a stretch to think they would make a twin of the one they already have. I think it has something to do with having everything in his own little world exactly the way he wants it. I guess it's probably a little neurotic or something, but then again, it's a big world, so there's probably plenty of people out there like that.
 
KrAzYaZnFLiP808 said:
Still rocking my Q9550 and GTX 295 and 8Gb 1066 Ram. Havent really came across any games to stress the prowess of my system. OC to 4.0, and gfx oc just alittle too. I actually went through and bought a Sandy Bridge 2600K. It was cheap BNIB. Sold it locally still BNIB, and a good amount of profit. Was going to pick motherboard, ram, and stuff for it. I canned it. Built me a server instead. I really dont make use of too much power on my system, but from a single core celeron, dual core pentium, to a quad core 2 series made a big difference. Got it hand me down aswell. I helped my friend build a i7 960 system, full build. cuz he thought his Q9550 and mobo fried. Found it in the closet. He said I can have it if I can get it to turn on. Built the system with extra parts. Bought some parts here in the buy and sell. Sold off old parts, and actually built another core 2 duo system. Sold that system. Now I am looking to getting Ivy Bridge 3770k, and a GTX 680 in a Small Form Factor Case. Just want a gaming system, to run Hyperspin per my other thread. I wouldnt mine a Sandy Bridge E system, with a GTX 690. But still wouldnt know what to do with that much power. I mean, all the games I play are fighting games. I max it out with my system now. Street X Tekken, Super Street Fighter Arcade Edition. Hmm, well see. Haswell seems entertaining.
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Hell, i'm still using a C2D e6600 with a GTX275 and i'm happy. Just haven't had the $$$ to keep dumping into my PC and then realizing that 90% of what I do on it involves surfing the net. What games I do play run fine on my rig at 1080p.
 
KrAzYaZnFLiP808 said:
Still rocking my Q9550 and GTX 295 and 8Gb 1066 Ram.
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Ditto....my current main system is sigged. Video card upgrades, sure...but, the platform is still running strong. I've built newer systems for friends and family, just haven't felt the need to upgrade my main platform.....it ain't broke, don't feel the need to fix it.
 
I still have a 930 as my secondary system with xlme super memory running a 670 ftw . I dont really feel i big diffrence the my enthusist system . I would buy last gen without a problem if price is right
 
DeathPrincess said:
SB and IB were pretty minor upgrades and not really worth the upgrade TBH (plus the new CPUs are boring to OC :D). But, buying a new 990x for full price now seems kind of silly (i'd pick one up for say $300 to play with the unlocked multi and for the extra cores). Unless you break someone elses while you are watching their house...
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Many would argue that they were more than minor upgrades, combining the both the increase in performance at the same clock speed and the increased headroom for overclocking.
 
I'm still running C2Q, but the OP was referring to the ridiculous prices Intel charges new for anything older than their last tick/tock. As an example, I did a e8400 to Q9550 drop-in (used, and sold the dual) when I couldn't be bothered to build a new rig. Newegg was selling new Q9550's for well more than SB 2500k's at the time IIRC.

The equivalent AMD stuff goes dirt cheap when it ages out.
 
Some people dislike change. Conservative.

Some people plan upgrades for years, enjoy getting what was perfect "then."
 
I like how the new modern definition of conservative means "dislikes change" as opposed to what most conservatives define it as "dislikes changes that makes no fucking sense."
 
Many of you are missing the OP's point. He's not saying there's anything wrong with not upgrading to new hardware. He's saying it's stupid to spend obscene amounts of money *NOW* on previous gen equipment.
 
Ruiner said:
I'm still running C2Q, but the OP was referring to the ridiculous prices Intel charges new for anything older than their last tick/tock. As an example, I did a e8400 to Q9550 drop-in (used, and sold the dual) when I couldn't be bothered to build a new rig. Newegg was selling new Q9550's for well more than SB 2500k's at the time IIRC.
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The problem is that once we discontinue a product we are not offering it any more for any price. So you will see companies that still have them in stock and they paid the original price them and in most cases there will still be demand enough for them to original price out of it but it is all up to them.
 
Parja said:
Many of you are missing the OP's point. He's not saying there's anything wrong with not upgrading to new hardware. He's saying it's stupid to spend obscene amounts of money *NOW* on previous gen equipment.
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Who here is arguing against that? Nobody. The only possible exception would be someone who had all the other ancillaries like a mobo and other things and didn't want to change platforms.
 
I'm sitting on my q9550 still...had to downgrade from my i7 for fixing the car. Currently have a p55 board with a i3 in it - once I find a i5 750 I'll be back !
 
I only just upgraded because I got a sick/slick deal. I went from i7 920 to 3770T, the newer processor outperforms my oc'ed old nehalem and has 1/3rd the TDP (45 vs 130) the ambient temperature in my room and my body thank me.
 
KrAzYaZnFLiP808 said:
Still rocking my Q9550 and GTX 295 and 8Gb 1066 Ram. Havent really came across any games to stress the prowess of my system. OC to 4.0, and gfx oc just alittle too.
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Here here! Almost identical specs minus GTX 295 for GTX 260. Solid machine that was built 3 years ago with already 2 year old outdated parts. I'm impressed it has lasted this long with almost no real barriers holding performance down. Can never go back once you go quad and the Core2Quad series isn't a true Quad in the sense it's just two dual core dies slapped together. Holding out for Haswell just for the AVX2/TSX lovin and future instruction proof for a good while. I'm guessing the experience by that upgrade will be mind blowing even though my machine is smooth as butter as it is.
 
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