I have some difficulty in imagining that EUR200 would be big obstacle to prevent an upgrade and keep hanging on to obsolete hardware. Maybe even the i7 should be recycled as it’s to old and more modern hardware would pay for itself through a lower electricity bill. I just kept using it out of habit, and had no good reason to spend money on an upgrade. The speed difference does make it more comfortable to work with the i7 and it made me realize I kept hanging on to the old DualCore far too long.
It was also adequate for KiCad (Olinuxino A64 was getting a bit slow, but I do not make PCB’s of that complexity) and I was looking into buying more modern hardware when someone gave the i7 to me. My previous PC was a DualCore E6600 which was 12 year old when the power supply died. These days you can get a much more modern second hand PC for less then EUR200 or even a complete laptop including a windoze license if you want it. I’m running linux happily on an i7 860 which is a 10 year old pc I got for free, and it has plenty of power to run any application I have.
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