Bite me Microsoft. You are creating e-waste. I have a perfectly good computer running a 4790k, 32 gigs of RAM, faster than my brand new work laptop, and you're looking to kill it. These excuses are nothing more than bullshit.
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I don't know about anyone else but I've been patiently waiting for the Ryzen 9 7950X3D since the 5800X3D came out. The gaming performance on that chip was so good that it was competitive with more expensive chips at the time, despite being slower for productivity workloads. My 4790k is starting to show it's age when playing games like Rimworld and Elden Ring.
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I have an old 4790k running OPNSense. Old gaming rigs make amazing 40gig routers.
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I'm actually using a Hackintosh! Mavericks is my favorite operating system, but there's no question that modern CPUs are superior to older and slower ones. OS X releases won't boot on Intel platforms newer than what existed at the time of their introduction. Someone with deep knowledge of XNU could fix this with a custom kernel and/or runtime patches, but I'm not that person. When I decided to downgrade to Mavericks, my initial plan was to use a type 1 hypervisor with GPU passthrough for close-to-bare-metal performance on modern Intel platforms. Unfortunately, I have never been able make GPU passthrough work under Mavericks. I tried two different Mavericks-compatible graphics cards, a GTX 780 6GB and a GTX 780 Ti. In both cases, passthrough works fine in High Sierra, but not in the older releases I wanted to run. Then I discovered that in 2017, a developer named Bronya had released a custom Mavericks kernel with Ryzen compatibility, to little fanfare. I ran down to microcenter and bought the just-released 16-core Ryzen 3950x, and went about building what would probably have been the most powerful Mavericks machine on the planet. It worked , but only when graphics acceleration was disabled. My GTX 780 Ti froze after logging in. My GTX 780 displayed a beautiful desktop in full resolution, but the entire machine slowed to a crawl when it was in use. Opening new Finder windows took upwards of 60 seconds, perhaps related to a cryptic message that kept appearing in the console: "k…
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This is my primary use case too. I've started using my phone with steam link and an xbox controller to play some of the bigger single player titles I've been sitting on for the past few years (such as Horizon Zero Dawn, Witcher 3, and Cyberpunk 2077). My 4790k is long in the tooth but it can lock 30 fps in any game. Coupled with a 3070 I can stream 1080p30 at max graphics settings on any of these games and I don't need to buy another computer to do it.