Anecdotally I know several people whose 'main' desktop PCs are now right around 3 years old. Mostly stuff from one or two intel generations prior to the introduction of the Ryzen 1xxx series several years ago. After going through all of the reviews for the Ryzen 3xxx (3700, 3800X, etc) and X570 chipset motherboards, they've upgraded and are really pleased with the performance.
It's fun seeing something that can chew through kdenlive video editing of 2160p, 60fps video and encode a project into HEVC like a hot knife going through butter.
The only problem is that such increases in speed are really only needed either for gamers or a small subset of people who work with graphics/engineering/video.
Lots of other uses for an 8-core desktop workstation... Lots of guest VMs inside virtualbox, a host operating system such as Qubes which is a xen hypervisor, etc. Not just gaming and very cpu intensive things like 2160p60 video encoding.
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Anecdotally I know several people whose 'main' desktop PCs are now right around 3 years old. Mostly stuff from one or two intel generations prior to the introduction of the Ryzen 1xxx series several years ago. After going through all of the reviews for the Ryzen 3xxx (3700, 3800X, etc) and X570 chipset motherboards, they've upgraded and are really pleased with the performance.
It's fun seeing something that can chew through kdenlive video editing of 2160p, 60fps video and encode a project into HEVC like a hot knife going through butter.
The only problem is that such increases in speed are really only needed either for gamers or a small subset of people who work with graphics/engineering/video.
Lots of other uses for an 8-core desktop workstation... Lots of guest VMs inside virtualbox, a host operating system such as Qubes which is a xen hypervisor, etc. Not just gaming and very cpu intensive things like 2160p60 video encoding.
then you can get a 3200g which has 4 fast cores and a decent gpu for $99! its amazing.