I think running any modern CPU in "we've got to come #1 in benchmarks" TDP settings is stupid, actually.
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I think running any modern CPU in "we've got to come #1 in benchmarks" TDP settings is stupid, actually.
I would go as far as to say that running any modern CPU is stupid, actually, for most people. everyone has already heard me say it a thousand times, but Joe Schmoe can still get by just fine on an 8-10 year old i5.
that said I am still pretty excited about how good the crummy low-end processors are getting these days
seconded, my tower that i built in 2016 with an i5-6000 something or other has survived into it's 8th year of use has always exceeded my expectations and desires for a home gaming desktop and i have no plans to upgrade any time soon
Microsoft has done a lot of horrible things, but i think officially dropping support for a ton of very capable CPUs that are less than a decade old in Windows 11 is one of the worst. yeah, you can work around it, but the vast majority of people don't know that and are just going to throw money at a new machine they really don't need (and there's always the risk of MS introducing some new bullshit that requires a modern CPU)
I was going to make a comment about how newer software is starting to drop support for stuff lacking newer AVX instructions, and I think if someone is buying a new CPU for a primary system then it's worth looking a bit newer. This is starting to happen in the *nix space too, but as with most things there the backwards compatibility will remain for many many years, usually past the point where the hardware is performant.
In the case of Microsoft, they have shared interest to encourage hardware refreshes, so of course they have to find weird arbitrary reasons to antiquate a perfectly good PC. With every bit of news that has come out of 11, I'd argue it's probably a feature for one's PC not to support it. "Disable TPM in bios to prevent W11 upgrade" just straight up sounds like Good Advice at this point.