I had a wonderful i5-2500, a procesor launched at 2011. And it has been working great until now. My motherboard has died and looks like I cannot find a replacement for that socket (1155), only refurbished **** and some H61 that doesn't works with my cpu.
So I have decided to replace the motherboard and the cpu. I'm looking for its natural replacement, the i5-6500, but looking at the specifications looks like is not much better than the one I had: http://ark.intel.com/compare/88184,52209
So how is that possible, in 5 years the only achievement is a higher bus speed, a slighty lower power consumption that I don't really care about, and support for 64Gb of RAM instead of 32GB (I have 8 so I don't care about this either)? And then the clock speed of the new processor is also lower than the old one?
So I have decided to replace the motherboard and the cpu. I'm looking for its natural replacement, the i5-6500, but looking at the specifications looks like is not much better than the one I had: http://ark.intel.com/compare/88184,52209
So how is that possible, in 5 years the only achievement is a higher bus speed, a slighty lower power consumption that I don't really care about, and support for 64Gb of RAM instead of 32GB (I have 8 so I don't care about this either)? And then the clock speed of the new processor is also lower than the old one?