I am on 5600X and seeing so many deals here thinking is it time to upgrade?
I am on 5600X and seeing so many deals here but not at all thinking that its time to upgrade..
Decide your usage if you really need to upgrade or if its just the itch due to ongoing deals. I will be keeping my existing setup for another 3yrs or more.
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but why? what are you not able to do exactly with 5600X?
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I’m on 3600. I’ll only probably upgrade if I get a sweet deal for a 5700x3d. If not, I’ll make it last until possible. Remember, if you upgrade on am4 to a high end cpu, chances are you’ll additionally need to spend more fot a good cpu cooler in case you use a low end one / stock cooler
I just upgraded from AM2 to AM4 bro, relax. 
I really don’t need high end PC but seeing many deals got FOMO, The only valid reason I could think of an upgrade is running local AI model faster (though I use them once in couple of months). Secondly I like to keep products in warranty and sell at decent price before warranty expires (warranty products get better sale value). Currently this setup is around 2 years old so most probably will upgrade in next 8~10 months (lets hope not).
P.S. The post was totally inspired by current deals in Flipkart thread, I was actually thinking to upgrade my 1.5yr old 3060Ti as well 
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That’s a a slippery slope to becoming a full time reseller in the long term. 
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Its been already a long term bro (doing this for more than 15yrs now) even If I try to become reseller there is no time for such activities now.
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Same here man. Not even thinking about upgrading from my 5600X and don’t see any need to honestly. Performs like a champ still in gaming and video editing through DaVinci Resolve. 
If no problem has arisen then continue with 5600x or else upgrade to another AM4 CPU or AM5 setup.
I upgraded from 5600x to 7600 because a lot of red event errors were showing in event viewer and my games began crashing while doing normal browsing or excel sheets nothing used to happen though simple errors show up in event viewer.
After I researched in reddit and www it showed that several others also got similar errors where AMD and MS did not give updates to rectify these errors.
I already sold my 5600x to another TE member 2 months ago.
Same here.. i have no issues. Perfectly happy with the setup and performance
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Windows 11 and latest win10 builds are trash anyways when you compare with windows 10 iot LTSC 21h2, its perfect for my needs. Didnt came across anything where its not viable yet..
Mine was Windows 11 24H2 and it began to give problems like I said above and while I was in Windows 10 it was somewhat better before.
Is there any task on your regular PC usage that has completely bogged down?
The upgrade itch is often a strong one, but really, it should not be allowed to overpower you!
Make a true list of tasks where you’re actually impeded by this CPU, and if those are actually 25% of your PC usage time, then make upgrade options.
Do classify if the issue is ST or MT performance, as ST would most probably require a full platform upgrade. MT options are many more.
which deals btw
I install windows 11 back n forth and always find myself come back to win10 iot LTSC 21h2.. there’s nothing better for me there. other than fancy darkmode and lower 0.1% fps in games.. in my 5600 gaming pc.
Also i have a gaming laptop too it has 5600h where in some games i faced microstutter on win11 and delay on loading system apps like file manager.
Furthermore my intel n100 mini pc sips more power on idle about 2-3 watts difference at 5 watts, also runs slower. Where in win10 iot LTSC, minimum idle gets 3.1 watts and on average 3.5watts
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Shit man why then MS is stopping active support to Windows 10?
I think they have mutual relationship with hardware manufacturers and it was a push to sell newer pc/laptops as normally pc and laptop lasts very long, so profits were stagnant. So thats maybe one of the reason.
Other one will be push more telemetry and data collection baked deep into os. Even gaslighting users to store screenshots of all events through recall. We are just numbers in their eyes.
Why the push inferior product with a fancy skin is beyond me. Every other “features” could’ve been also be baked into win10. i know improvement is good but planned obselution is not.
Forget about pc and windows for moment let me tell you bro. I have a tablet, it’s redmi pad, where it came with a minimal version of miui version 13, android version 12. It has 4gb ram and 128gb storage. The os is separate than mobile phone miui, more lightweight.
Then update came, i did to hyperos and android 13. It has so much heavier my tablet became unusable, it cant hold a second app in memory and poor battery life. Where before i was multitasking 3 apps back n forth. I had to manually flash the older version again from pc adb tool. With this older version i have no issue whatsoever.
I have no issues with updates as long as companies are good towards consumers. For example, samsung updates are good and solid.
Yes it’s seems to be hand in glove program or campaign for hardware vendors and software developers like MS and others.
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