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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The hardware isn't the latest and fastest...
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Don't... get... me... started.
Last year, I built this Skylake desktop box, with a GTX 1070. Then it fell out of use for a year because of circumstances and me working on my laptop 100% of the time. Now I resurrect it, and what do I see? After almost 10 years of creepingly slow upgrades (up to and including Kaby Lake, the 7700K CPU), the new series will have two extra cores (6 instead of 4), and a 4.7 GHz boost instead of 4.2. So yes, after having worked with a Core2Quad for 8 years and not feeling the need to upgrade until last year (when Kaby Lake wasn't even out), NOW they introduce a CPU that is more than 50% faster than the last generation. Blergh.
Do I *need* it? Nah. Not really. This Skylake box has 32GB of RAM, and the GTX 1070 is fast enough to run any game I have... for most games except The Witcher 2 and 3, it probably doesn't even need to wake up and turn its fan on.
On the other hand, CPU-Z says my mainboard has "Revision 37", and the board has had 15 (!) BIOS/UEFI updates since it was released in November 2015. I shudder to think of the problems I might have had when I had tried to build this system in 2015. Normally, I do wait about a year after the release of new boards and CPU's before I buy a new system. Maybe that's the reason why I mostly don't have weird hardware or driver problems.