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At what point does my 4790k need upgrading?

Soldato
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I've had a 4790k @4.5 ghz in my machie that I bought 2nd hand in early 2015 when it was already a few years old.

I see all these new chips like Coffeelake, i9, Ryzen... but am never tempted as would need a change of motherboard and I expect RAM too. No current games seem to max our CPU load so not sure when the CPU bottleneck will happen with my 2080Ti. Maybe other than in benchmarking like Timespy where I scored 11,858, GPU score 15,957, CPU score 4,829

Are some of these newer consumer chips designed with productivity in mind? I don't imagine they would be sold as enterprise chips for data center VM hosts but could be wrong
 
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