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>several years ago
>Shopping to build my first desktop
>Do some research, get my parts
>I7 860, HD5770, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, etc
>Get bagged on for buying Overkill parts
>"No need for an i7 anon, programs barely use even 2 cores, yet alone 8"
>"8GB ram is overkill, you won't need more than 4"
>Blah blah blah
>Mfw they've all upgraded from their dual core "value" i5/i3/c2d while my i7 is still competent enough for modem video games, video and image editing, and just normie web browsing shit.
tl;dr buy the best you can because newer software makes your older hardware age better. Only upgrades I've done are adding an ssd and an r9 380x.
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tfw to intelligent too listen to /g/
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>>61531354
>spending £500 every 3 years is better than £1000 every 6 years anon.
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>>61531376
Don't listen to the adults, go for more cores. My CPU is still relevant thanks to software now taking advantage of those extra threads that it has.
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>>61531354
>tfw I bought a quad core AMD with 4 gigs of RAM and it still runs just fucking fine
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>had i9-920, 6 GB RAM, 1TB HDD for 4 years
>move to i7-2600K, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 3 TB HDD
>Difference is like night and day
Might want to at least give an SSD a shot.
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>>61531354
>860
>5770
>"overkill"
pppffttthahahahah.
come back when you have a 980x and 12gb ram and a 295, poorfag
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>new rig 2012
>2500k
>8gb ram
>128gb crucial m4
>2tb hdd
> amd 7950
Still relevant 5 years later.
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