@demi that e5-1650v3 i mentioned was running on an X99 chipset (although on a really really really really jank motherboard from china that i think used a reclaimed chipset and the BIOS was definitely from another board)
@demi i believe (but check before you buy!) anything in that era that's LGA 1155(?) will work because that's when intel didn't begin locking xeons down to their old chipsets and stuff.
@demi honestly this was true before ryzen came out and even intel CPUs in the ryzen era now. that might just be because i've only used them in mobile devices, and the variation between those old intel CPUs is INSANE. the laptop i used when i was 15 had an i7-4200M in it and that's still faster now than my surface pro with the i7-8250U (although i believe that's a case of wattage and something about the surface is just Wrong)
@demi i did not share the same love for my boy. i upgraded it from an i5-3570K to the E5-1230v2 and the only noticable thing that was better was cemu performance in breath of the wild emulation 😭, the year after i got a motherboard for christmas and bought the e5-1650v3 for myself. THAT thing was fucking funny, overclocked to 4.8ghz on 2 cores, rest at 4.6ghz, grew 150w, made my legs sweat everytime i used it. fucking amazing time.
@demi i was about to make a comment about running some ancient hardware and then i read E3-1270V2 and i used to game on one from the same generation (E3-1230 V2) and then i realised that it still applies because that CPU is like 13 years old , all in all great setup keep up the good work my brain is fried keep up the great work oomf
