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		TylerE on Aug 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PC obsolescence is obsolete Yep, seems pretty accurate to me. In fact, my home system is pretty much identical to their hypothetical 2008 i7-920 system. I have made a couple of upgrades over the years (Replaced the original Radeon 4870x2 with a GeForce 560 about 9 months ago when the ATI card died, recently upgraded from the original 6GB of RAM to 24GB. Looking at what's other there now there's nothing that makes sense to upgrade to.

dman on Aug 21, 2012 [–]

Raytraced games probably come closest to what would cause people to upgrade. But even Intel seems to be backing away from raytraced games off late.

sp332 on Aug 21, 2012 | [–]

Intel backed off because its futuristic hardware platform was too futuristic to make a good GPU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)

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