Poorfag going to uni here. Are Sandy Bridge Era processors

hahaha no

you need at least latest xeons and 2x them too with dual processor mobo, retard. that MIGHT be just and just enough for your stuff

>>56174855
Yes, CPUs stopped getting faster since sandy bridge (just more energy efficient)

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>>56174855
Definitely (and maybe a bit trivially) yes. I'm still using an Ivy Bridge laptop, and I'm typing this on a Sandy Bridge desktop, even. Sandy Bridge was really the last great leap in IPC. Also there is little that most would need to be spending gobs of money in order to eek a minor bit of extra performance from the newer CPUs.
That reminds me, I need to get my old laptops on ebay at some point lol.

>>56174855
>Will be doing standard stuff like essay writing and some physics programming in mathematica.

Word processing and Mathematica? You're totally fine. You could do that fine even on Atom chips. Fuck off and earn that degree and have a happy life, mate. Good luck!

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>>56175086
Thanks

>>56174855
sandy bridge best bridge, didn't you know?

>>56174855
I'm still using a core 2 duo notebook and core 2 desktop without any issues.

>>56175086
What a swell lad :D

I really envy those that have bought sandy bridge processors back in 2011.

Isn't Phenom II still good for regular desktop tasks?

>>56174855
If you already own (or can buy for cheap) a SB CPU, go for it. If you are buying new, get Skylake.

SB is still perfectly fine for everything. It will bottleneck stuff like the GTX 1080, but only slightly.

i5 2500k is still faster than any amd cpu

>>56176124
You can get them pretty cheap nowadays when retards are switching to Skylake.

I have been using sandy bridge since it came out, it's fine.

i7-2600k owner here

Bought brand new back in 2011 and still running strong.

I have a i5-2500k that I got in early 2012, and it's working really good. The only thing that sucks is that at the time, I had no idea what MB I should get, so I got a cheap one that wont let me overclock the CPU.