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CPU or GPU first? The eternal question, for code compiling

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  1. Vik Ekström
    @vike21

    Classic dilemma. I have some money saved and I can either replace my older i5 or upgrade my GPU. I mainly use the PC for code compiling. Everyone online has strong opinions, but most are about different use cases. If uve been in a similar spot, what did you do? Im leaning one way but would like some outside perspective. Which upgrade gave you teh bigger improvement for your actual use, and do you regret teh order you did it in?? what am i doing wrong??

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  2. Nadia Iqbal
    @nadia_quartz

    ahh classic measure first. watch GPU utilization in your actual workload with a monitoring overlay. if the GPU sits well below full use while one or more CPU threads are maxed, the CPU is limiting u. good luck man!

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  3. Viktor Kaur
    @viktor.kaur

    i come back to this thread every week just for the drama

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  5. Basil Jensen
    @bjensen
    in reply to @ubanerjee

    yeahhh for better battery life, look at what the software actually uses. some workloads scale with core count, others deepnd more on single-thread speed... benchmarks of ur exact app matter more than general rankings. lmk how it goes

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  6. Vik Ekström
    @vike21
    in reply to @bjensen

    @bjensen dude did teh drop-in upgrade after a BIOS udpate.. xD much smoother for code compiling... best value upgrade Ive done.

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