Oh man fix it up! I used to put one leg over the other and one day I sudenly stopped being able to move my right foot. Turns out I ruptured a nerve. Was a few months till I could move my foot again! That was one hell of a weird trip to the urgencies, the doctor thought I was having a stroke, I was inside all types of machines for a few hours till they figured it out!

I actually downloaded the software and ran it in my windows 11 dev drive, and it seems overclocking the CPU is quite the impact, netting me over 2000 points extra! To be fair i don’t know the reference speed at all, as i’ve had it overclocked since day one ! When i get a newer system i plan on overclocking, but from what i’ve been seeing overclocking a newer CPU doesn’t net as much juice as these old boys can do! That single core performance uplift should probably impact php/javascript quite a lot for my daily work, i will compare it when i finally pull the upgrade trigger!

It’s mostly single player platformer games and web development really (and tv shows with the SVP player project to watch with frame generation) maybe that’s why the system I still so much usable !

I have been seeing some benchmarks, and in some games the difference is quite big. The thing is I play mostly platformer games, and at this resolution the CPU and GPU seem quite in sync. The latest platformer I’ve been playing is Sonic Frontiers, and with some game mods to unlock higher quality graphics I’ve been getting solid 60 (game is capped) with no stuttering.

I do agree, trying it out is not the same as using it for a week though! I will eye out the AM5 platform, especially now that the motherboards are coming down in price, and will decide by next CPU gen!

It really is a tiny little trooper. I do mostly web development work, virtual machine based simulations before real world implementations and play some platformer games, and aside from the ocasional “ok 10 virtual machines is a bit too much” moments it chugs along great, before on Windows 10 LTSC and now since 1 and a half years ago on Debian with KDE (Steam Proton is really great!). I really have been saving, and I got to say, this PC has payed for itself almost 100 times over by now !