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Gamers desert Intel in droves, as Steam share plummets from 81% to 55.6% in just five years (www.club386.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 53 points 10 months ago (6 children)

They really segmented that market in the worst possible way, 2 cores and 4 cores only, possibility to use vms or overclock, and so on. Add windoze eating up every +5%/year.

Remember buying the 2600(maybe X) and it was soo fast.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    The 2600k was exceptionally good and was relevant well past the normal upgrade timeframes.

    Really it only got left behind because of its 4C/8T limit as everything started supporting lots of threads instead of just a couple, and just being a 2nd Generation i7.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Coincidentally, that’s the exact cpu I use in my server! And it runs pretty damn well.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Really it only got left behind because of its 4C/8T limit as everything started supporting lots of threads instead of just a couple, and just being a 2nd Generation i7.

    Past me made the accidentally more financially prudent move of opting for the i7-4790k over the i5-4690k which ultimately lasted me nearly a decade. At the time the advice was of course "4 cores is all you need, don't waste the money on an i7" but those 4 extra threads made all the difference in the longevity of that PC

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