How often do you upgrade your CPU and Motherboard

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I was thinking about the uplift from 7xxx series Ryzen to 9xxx series which does not appear to be worth it for gamers yet. but for 5xxxx series owners it might be worth it.

Then I was also thinking how often do people upgrade, each and every time Intel/AMD release or every other or only as and when your system stops doing what you want in a timely fashion.

I have a 5800x/X570 system with 32 GB 3600 DDR4 and for the games I play I am OK, so its been 3 years now.

How about you guys ?

 

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I tend to upgrade when I start to see performance take a hit or something fails that forces me to upgrade.

I had an I7 950 which I was happy with for years but the motherboard\CPU was giving me random BSODs and no matter what I did I could not resolve it so in 2019 I upgraded to an I7 9700k which I am still running to this day.

Recently I have had the itch to upgrade but to be honest its still a good system to use and another reason to upgrade was to turn it in to a plex server as I have been testing it on this system for a few months now without an issue.

I would say most people may upgrade every 5/6 years for gamers, sometimes longer if you are happy to turn down settings instead but there is people out there that upgrade every gen regardless as they like the new shiny shiny tech\release hype

Every 5 years I would agree

 

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4-5 years something like that. Sometimes I just get the itch i.e. 5800x3d to 7800x3d no real reason to upgrade just wanted something new (and with extended platform support) obviously wasn't expecting the 9xxx series to be a disappointment...

If your upgrading from 5xxx series it might be a good upgrade but from a 7xxx system it doesn’t look worth it yer

 

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I always thought every 5 years so if you are on a 5xxx series the 9xxx series might work out well if you wait too see if these issues are resolved. Those on 7xxx series be happy