How come gamers use decade old CPUs in 2016?

If it still works why wouldn't they?

>>56063480
They clearly don't if they can't run modern software.

>>56063458
Intel backdoor.
https://stallman.org/intel.html

Whoever wrote that note needs to go back to middle school.

"Seriously badly". What in the fuck..

>>56063494
If you don't have any use of the said modern softwares?

>>56063494
>Implying modern software is worth the use

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Frankly its more of a developer issue , one can figure out if the instruction extensions are supported via the CPUID instruction.
So if its not supported they can implement the same operations via normal single 32 bit float instructions or older SIMD extensions that happen to be supported.
And its not even a complex check , however the state would need to be compared every time the code block would be executed and the fact that matrix arithmetic's are time critical might hurt performance , however modern branch prediction will make sure that after 4 or so guesses the pipeline gets prefetched correctly every time , or one could use global function pointers that get set after the check for nearly(practically) no performance penalty.
So yeah , those instructions are not a part of the normal x86 instruction set and must be treated as such.

And to answer the OP's question they can still throw a punch as long as high end i7 and xeon tier workloads are not needed.
I would get an SSD since most time is spent fetching the data from the harddrive. get a mid end GPU and play older games from '04 to '07
since modern games are shit anyway.
Personally i run a celeron n2540 , i used to run some AMD-k something at 2 Ghz ,2 cores with some dedicated laptop GPU which is 2 times more powerfull than the igpu that the celeron has and now i cant run some games i used to run as a reference

>>56063458
>playing nu males scam
I tried a free GoG copy and it really is just a boring, worthless game

>>56063494
Who are you to say a 10 years old CPU instruction set is not modern?