Several years ago I built a mid range system with q9550 and 560ti. Looking to upgrade with same budget in mind at present I came to surprise finding that unlike in those days where more performance for the same price was to be had after few years there is little to nothing to gain at the moment. The current equivalent for the same price would be 750gtx which looking at passmark benchmark has close to same score and i5 4460 which is little pricier than what I got the 9550 for taking that into account gives me 1.3 times the performance. Only change I can see at present is that flagship performance and prices have increased tremondously. Is with newer methods (which has resulted in higher performing hardware) hardware manufacturing not become cheaper anymore or has the industry simply become greedy since one no longer need top end hardware to run games decently?
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good I'm not the only one. I was looking to upgrade my aging 955 black and HD6970 to something new around what I paid for these, and there was no real benefit in upgrading. I just decided to overclock the old girl. the only increase I have seen is in power requirements. the 955 black is a power hungry chip, and so is the 6970, but they still perform admirably, triply admirably considering thier age. I just decided to use the money to build a low power NAS.
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Newer generations are basically a 10 to 20% increase in performance yet similar prices to back then. It's either the dollar going up or just the manufacturers getting grredy, a little bit of both I would say. Look at AMD their whole 300 series are just a 200 rebrand, not that nvidia is any better, nor intels skylake when compared to the 2 year old haswell.
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my 955 will be turning 7 this year, so at 10% increase per year I should expect 170% performance increase, not the 15-20 over the 7 years. For Example:when I got the 955 a processor from 7 years earlire was an athlon 1300Mhz. in that 7 year period we went from 1Ghz processors to multicore post 3ghz processors. We will not see performance/price increases like that again I am afraid. Intel has relegated AMD to the bargain and increases trickle out like it is the 80's again. competition is good.
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