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Originally Posted by thegreatsquare 
My Q9450 is really going to make it all the way to Broadwell, there is no stopping it now unless it just up and dies. I was hoping for four years when I bought it, but six? ...fine with me. Even if new consoles arrive sometime in 2013, it can't effect enough games quickly enough to make too big a difference for the amount of months that should be left till Broadwell arrives.
Thank you makers of six year old consoles.
Broadwell (& DDR4) ...or Bust!

My Q9450 is really going to make it all the way to Broadwell, there is no stopping it now unless it just up and dies. I was hoping for four years when I bought it, but six? ...fine with me. Even if new consoles arrive sometime in 2013, it can't effect enough games quickly enough to make too big a difference for the amount of months that should be left till Broadwell arrives.
Thank you makers of six year old consoles.
Broadwell (& DDR4) ...or Bust!
In your case, no, but for someone running 2-3 GPUs at a high resolution then the the Q9450 could already be hurting framerate, and will do so even more with whatever high-end GPUs are out in 2014.
Edited by lordikon - 3/5/12 at 12:00pm









because it is still cheaper since no-one really produces graphene on a grand scale for the purpose of making CPUs yet.


