[acqq]

> I have a 2500k i5 in my old desktop.

> Its incredible how the x86 world really hasn't had any huge performance bumps and how a Q1 2011 CPU is still competitive.

Actually you can have twice as fast desktop CPU today than your 2500k, and not for some number crunching you'll maybe never need (even though it's the most important thing for others) but for such common tasks like compiling the code:

http://techreport.com/r.x/skylake/legacy1-qtbench.gif

Not bad at all for the times when the hardware speedups are getting harder.

But it's good that even the newest games don't expect only the latest CPU.

[venomsnake]

Where is the doubled single core performance? We have more cores now, but they are almost as fast as 3-4 years ago.

[creshal]

> Actually you can have twice as fast desktop CPU today than your 2500k

Alternatively, you can overclock the 2500K to absurd levels (33% or more seems the norm, even on air cooling), which negates most of the advantage of newer models.