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Agree. In most cases, especially where (a side amount of) productivity is concerned (and not just gaming), the parts these days are very capable of lasting well beyond 5 years and likely into 10+ years (certainly with just the occasional GPU refresh). My i7 4930k X79 system certainly would have lasted well beyond 10 years had the motherboard not died from a manufacturing defect that finally revealed itself and took the motherboard and system with it, and the secondary rig of i5 3570-non-k Z77 is retiring only because it is no longer able to keep up due to the AI stuff needing more than a quad core CPU from 12+ years ago to run smoothly. Those are some legs on parts from more than a decade ago, which parts today I am sure will be able to replicate easily.if you are upgrading from a 3700x and whatever card you are using atm then it will seem like a huge leap in performance. I am more than sure you will be happy with it for many years.