Stepping down

[Dirk Broer]

I have retired all junk myself long ago and now have come to the point where I consider my Core2 Quad inefficient due to its relatively high tdp and non-crunching IGP.
It will be replaced, together with the i3-2100, by an Ivy Bridge i7-3770 model (plain, K, T or S) that can handle just as much threads as the C2Q and the i3 together and can crunch on its Intel HD 4000 IGP as well.
As I can keep using the mobo of the i3, it is just saving for that i7 and after that I am saving on electricity as I am using one system less.

But I am afraid I have to cut into the number of AMD systems too, as I can't afford to keep running all four of them.
Candidate one to be 'retired' is the A6-3500, having only three cores and the weakest IGP of the four. I have already promised it to my son, so it will be in good hands.

With the prices for electricity and ASIC systems what they are here, I have not gone into bit- or litecoin mining and so have no wallet either.