Christmas came a little early. My new Core I3 upgrade / downgrade arrived today. The reason I say downgrade lol is because my old processor is an I5 (2nd generation), but the new tenth generation I3 is the same number of cores (4) and way faster clock speed. So a new I3 is better than an old I5, IOW. Plus the older sims, at least, don’t use more than 4 cores and don’t do hyper threading anyway. So I’m looking forward to that.
its amazing that a ‘downgrade’ can be faster than the old higher cpu’s lol- amazing what tech goes into these ever improving computers- and the prices- we paid over $3000 for our first computer and by today’s standards it was a real dog- today i can pick up a computer that is many times faster, larger HD, faster ram, etc etc- for way way less money- Tech-wise, it’s a good time now to be alive lol- i just wish we had waited a few years before jumping into computers- coulda saved a ton of money- and had far better machines-