Moore's law is dead dead, for real.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Moore's law is dead dead, for real. My PC is five years old, and current generation CPUs aren't even twice as fast on any of the leading benchmarks. I built it to last, spending a bit more than seemed reasonable for all the components, because I don't like the disruption of switching to a new machine. But, it's probably the longest I've ever had the same primary computer in my life, and I'm surprised to find I probably ought to wait a bit longer, so the improvement is even noticeable.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

I should note I upgraded the GPU three years ago, not because I had any performance problems, but because AI was becoming a thing at work (computer vision and object detection, not chatbots) and Nvidia dominates in AI and I had an ATI (or AMD?) before. So, that's probably contributing to my general lack of urgency when it comes to building a new machine. Also, I rarely play games that need a lot of performance, so nothing ever reminds me my computer is approaching ancient.