Quote Originally Posted by kpxgq View Post
really?

im still on my "ancient" core2duo and i still dont find it slow for anything. i play all the latest games at the highest settings with no slowdown. all my work programs run with no lag (i do professional production work with adobe software), id say my SSD gave the biggest performance boost if anything. the only time i want a faster cpu is when im encoding video which about 3-5% of the time.

i think that since the core 1 duos's that we hit a software plateau where we dont need faster hardware anymore... all my previous cpu's (celeron 333, tbird 1ghz, tbred 1.4, venice 3000, x2 4200, etc)... ive steadily felt a need to upgrade but not this time around
Fair enough. From my PPro200, to my PIII550, to a T-Bird 1.4GHz, to an Athlon X2 to my current Core2Quad, I've felt distinct and obvious needs for upgrading.

All that being said, I still feel I should update about every 2nd generation of CPU's these days. (that would be every 2nd "tock" I guess .) That's 4 years between upgrades, which isn't bad. Especially because I do much more video encoding than I once did before. I'm interested in the new chips dedicated hardware accelerated video transcoding. I'm looking forward to a re-write of several software applications to take advantage of that.

And again, all of that being said, my next upgrade is to a larger SSD for several systems, which means I won't have money for a platform upgrade until this time next year or so. Which means I'll probably catch it during a Tick cycle, instead of a Tock.