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I've had the same first generation i7 for 6 or 7 years. I've never been tempted to upgrade. This mobo+CPU has outlived 3-4 cycles of other parts.
Serious question, how often do you guys upgrade your CPU/mobo? What theories do you have behind it? When upgrade time comes around I can never justify it. It feels to me like buying the best at the time and forgetting it for 5+ years is a viable CPU solution unlike most other parts.
>>55424372
Personally i upgrade when i feel the need to upgrade. If i notice some of my parts start choking then its a time for upgrade. Definately going to skip a few more generations with my 4790k. if i really need more juice i can OC back to 4.9GHz at 1.35V which will boost me up pretty nicely again. So far i have no need to OC past from stock turbo.
>>55424372
>how often do you guys upgrade your CPU/mobo?
When I need to. I don't play games, so it's a matter on performance of daily activities and some number crunching I do.
>>55424372
ok some might look at me weird but I don't really have anything to do besides my job and playing soccer so I upgrade my PC in one way or another every few months.
>inb4 richfag
Not really since I can sell the old stuff and components aren't really that prcey anymore are they?
>>55424456
This is fine, some people have the time for that. I'm just thinking from a lazy consumer standpoint, how often does one actually need to upgrade CPU? It feels like CPUs that were top end 6 years ago are still able to handle everything now as good as most computers people are buying.
>>55424372
im still running my i7 920,planning to upgrade to those 6-core lga 1366 xeons,they overclock well and are on par in single core performance with low end skylake i5:s when overclocked to 4-ish Ghz
AMD Phenom 955 still goin strong here
I think this year i'll probably do a Mobo/CPU upgrade to somadat Intel swag cause i've never not been AMD. Does this fuck with genuine windows copies? It is really annoying to call microsoft each time I change a piece of hardware.
>>55424372
wait for zen
>>55424885
Changing motherboards caused me allllllllll kinds of fucking problems on Windows 10 .
>Windows 10
>>55424372
Every 5 years on average it looks like. I upgraded from a Pentium MMX from 1996 to a Pentium 4 in 2001 to an Athlon 64 in 2005. Then, in 2009, to an i5 750. Which I use today. I have a Haswell Xeon and I might be upgrading to that just for the hell of it, so that makes it 7 years for this i5 750.
>>55424372
Idk. At this pace, it will take a long time before i upgrade from my i5 3450.
>>55424372
Just went from i7 950 to 6700k. Satisfying
>>55424372
Still using core2quad desktop and core2duo laptop for everything
I tend to buy used parts or inexpensive parts. I put newer parts in my main machines and older parts in less important machines.
Desktop 1 cpu/mobo - 3 years old
Desktop 2 cpu/mobo - 7 years old
Laptop cpu/mobo - 6 years old
HTPC cpu - 6 years old
HTPC mobo - 2 years old
In storage Desktop cpu/mobo - 9 years old
i will use 2500k for lels until it won't run firefox
so i got 6-7 months
