Intel Core i7 6700K

> Is it worth to keep your old CPU? I just "re-cycle" them. Bought a 7700X two years ago. My 3600X went to my wife. Previous machine (forgot which one it was but some Intel CPU) went to my mother-in-law. Machine three machines before that, my trusty old Core i7-6700K from 2015 (I think 2015): it's now a little Proxmox server at home. I'll probably buy a 9900X or something now: don't want to wait late 2026/2027 for Zen 6 to come out. 7700X shall go to the wife, 3600X to the kid. My machines typically work for a very long time: I carefully pick the components and assemble them myself and then test them. Usually when I pull the plug for the final time, it's still working fine. But yet I like to be not too far behind: my 7700X from 2022 is okay. But I'll still upgrade. Doesn't mean it's not worth keeping: I'll keep it, just not for me.

> TSMC is dominant in technology AND volume. It chip shortage would be massive. Redesigning everything that has a TSMC chip in it to use something else would be a massive undertaking. That's true and yet I'd say that's not my problem? The market will be fine. If anything that means more software work for me. New opportunities will arise. People won't buy a new phone every year for a while (which is objectively a good thing!). The M series MacBooks are so good now there's virtually no reason to upgrade to M2 or M3 if you have the M1 (like in my case). I fully expect to use this computer for the next decade. My desktop PC is basically unchanged since I built it in 2016 (+1 extra SSD I've added after, but that was it). The i7-6700K in there is still chugging happily along. Apple have more than $100 billion of cash at hand. They will be fine no matter what happens. It's not like they didn't change chips before :)

For sure. I moved from setup with an i7-6700k and a gtx 1070 to one with a 5900x and an rx 6900xt, and in games the upgrade wasn't really as strong as you might expect. Code compilation, hashing, rendering were all markedly faster though. That old PC became a perfectly serviceable hand me down after 5 years of service, and I hope to get another 5 out of this rig. Pretty cool that we're seeing longevity and some progress at the same time.

I'm still getting by with a 6700k and 32 Gb DDR4. Upgraded with a recent AMD GPU it's a surprisingly capable gaming rig.

> I see a number 4770 and 4790 still doing the job they were bought for. I expect the same for 12th gen when they're 13yo. Not so for anything between 4th and 12th. What do you mean? My Core i7-6700K is still running strong on its Asus Z-170A mobo (TFA mention a Z370-A, mine's a bit older but was one of the first mobo to offer a M.2 NVMe slot). It even runs very modern games just fine on whatever not-so-powerful GPU that's in it: it's the PC my daughter uses to play (I did put PoP OS! and Steam on it but I'll swap to another distro if needed). I switched to an AMD 3700X and then to an AMD7700X but I don't see anything wrong with my 6th gen Core i7.

It makes economic sense. A lot of my gaming happens on GeForce Now. At home, I am still rocking a plain old GTX 1080 with an i7 6700k, it's still kicking ass a decade later and plays most of what I throw at it, and I have an M-Series MBP for work, though it's capable of running plenty modern titles on Ultra. My Steam Deck absorbs the majority of my local gaming, however, even though I have to run games at lower spec. It's just an extremely convenient device and I dock it to my projector, which I run at 1080p@240Hz anyway because I prefer it over 4K@60Hz. For things the deck can't handle though, GeForce Now rocks. If the Steam Machine doesn't become too expensive, I might snag one and a Steam Frame headset as well, and that will probably have me set through any impending breakdown in the supply chain for at least a decade. I'll probably be rocking this GTX 1080 until 2040, the way things are going.

The scam knows no limit. Make sure Windows 10 isn't updated anymore and then make sure Windows 11 isn't supported "because the hardware is too old", forcing people to buy new computers. As a sidenote for whatever reason I tried to install Windows 11 on an AMD 3700X (don't remember why exactly I did that as I typically don't run Windows). The AMD 3700X came out in mid 2019. Windows 11 refused to install for the hardware wasn't supported: I don't know if it was the mobo, the CPU, a configuration in the mobo... Really no clue. All I know is not only it failed but it failed without telling what wasn't supported . On a computer that was not even four years old. Meanwhile my wife is happily using Ubuntu on my old sixth gen Core i7 6700K from... 2015 (first Asus mobo that had a NVMe M.2 PCIe slot so in eight years I basically just upgraded the NVMe SSD to a more recent one). I agree with the other poster: it's an opportunity to have "old" computers and just install whatever Linux distro on them. All that "normies" need is a browser: I switched my 67 years old mother-in-law to Linux. If she can use Linux, nearly anyone can.

I used my i7 920 from 2007 till 2016 with only the GPU changed from 4870x2 to R9 280. The reason I changed is intermittent problem with booting because of RAM not being detected. I am still using the replacement till now an i7 6700K with 32GB RAM and SSD and I feel I wont be changing it for a while since it is fast for it needs to do.

It is irrelevant because it is not wide-spread. AVX-512 is much nicer to program than nay previous Intel's vector instructions. It will be relevant if programmer could assume, that 50% of her auditory has CPU with AVX-512. If I want to play with it (as programmer who is interested in DSP on generic-purpose hardware) I need to rent special cloud instance for very non-hobby-friendly price. Additionally, benchamrks (of algorithms, not hardware) at shared instance is never good idea. I have old (but fast enough for most my tasks) i7-6700K at my desk now, and I've hoped to upgrade it to something with full AVX-512, but alas. What is cheapest way to have local AVX-512 capable system (I know about exotic, low-power i3-8121U, lets ignore it)? Unless developers will be able to buy reasonable-priced (think: current i5/i7 non-extreme prices, middle-level MoBo, not low-end, but not gaming or server one) system, AVX-512 will be completely irrelevant. Yes, GPUGP is affordable now (or not? Prices for video cards are insane!), but not all tasks goes well with GPUGP, where transaction cost is insane (memory is slow, but PCIe is much slower and has much larger latency). Update: And no, I don't need any "effective" cores at my desktop, thank you. I'm not sure, I need it on my laptop, either, but I'm pretty sure about my desktop.