Time To Upgrade, Part 2: Picking The Parts To Replace

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By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
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After looking at whether or not it makes sense to replace a PC built back in 2007 with a more modern machine, we decided to examine three component upgrade options—graphics, storage, and the motherboard/CPU/RAM platform—separately.

Scenario 1 Results: Application Benchmarks

We saw these results in the first article, in which we executed a full component exchange. Since most application benchmarks are CPU-dependent, the results are similar. Depending on the application, the Core i7-based system from 2010 falls somewhere between a little faster and twice as fast.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos