intel messed up by scamming their base with the almost same CPU's for at least a decade.pair that with the fact that you cant upgrade your cpu because their new gens have different pins or some other bullcrap
as is, my i-79700f has no upgrade path at all if i wanted to do it in a near future. while AMD allows most of their chips to have an upgrade path to them.
I have an i7-2600k that still works very well for many basic needs after ten years.
All I wanted to do was re-purpose an old expensive system into a beefy pfSense/OPNsense box for my home network.
Because of Intel's socket games the only new motherboards I have access to are old shitty ones that never sold. Otherwise for the "good ones" people wanting $300+ for used or in a few cases $500+ for an unopened item that was left in the back room somewhere.
the only problem that i see with older platforms is that some chips are missing new instructions and stuff but other than that yeah you can still do some gaming and computing with these old chips
>some chips are missing new instructions
Yes I've had that happen in the past when loading up an old Pentium 3 system with Win XP for specific use cases.
Which is why I was planning to let this system basically set in the corner managing my home network and hosting a VPN. I figured even an older i7 with 24GB of ram and a SATA 6ghz SSD could do that pretty well. Just replace the faulty Gigabyte mobo and drop in a newer larger SSD for $60 and it would be fine.
I'm having a good laugh right now because I just found some new Chinese boards for decent prices for this socket. I'm pricing systems out for future projects and a possible start up right now. So a few of my old systems & servers are going to get rebuilt.
One of the boards won't say if its ITX or mATX in size. If it had 4 dimm slots instead of two I'd order it right now. Some of the old Intel boards still have LPT ports on the back.
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