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How often do you upgrade your CPU and Motherboard

I've got a 7900x which I got when AM5 released, I'll probably be upgrading cpus every new gen tbh, waiting for the 9800x3d to get back in stock
 
HighlandeR said:
Every 5-7 years at this point. But I gotta change and reduce it, if you leave it that long the tech just gets left behind in other areas.
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Just pulled the Black Friday trigger to find out how much behind I've been. i5-8400 => i5-14600K should be a nice boost!

My problem was justifying the £700 platform cost for CPU+MB+DDR5

I was hanging on for the Core 200s on mid-range B8xx MBs, but currently there's lack of good reviews and the £300+ for Z890 itx boards
The 9800x3d just seems overpriced for my use case. I compile more than I game.
The 9700x was really tempting but I'd also need a new CPU waterblock

The 14600K is last gen, but at only £450 it feels like a more reasonable cost.

Maybe I need to get an early AM6 next time, to get some MB re-use at least???
 
AlSki said:
Just pulled the Black Friday trigger to find out how much behind I've been. i5-8400 => i5-14600K should be a nice boost!

My problem was justifying the £700 platform cost for CPU+MB+DDR5

I was hanging on for the Core 200s on mid-range B8xx MBs, but currently there's lack of good reviews and the £300+ for Z890 itx boards
The 9800x3d just seems overpriced for my use case. I compile more than I game.
The 9700x was really tempting but I'd also need a new CPU waterblock

The 14600K is last gen, but at only £450 it feels like a more reasonable cost.

Maybe I need to get an early AM6 next time, to get some MB re-use at least???
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That should be a major improvement you probably would not need to upgrade again for another few years, I did consider waiting till next year for the AM6 but its that old saying around here of there being something around the corner that is always better.

If you can sell off your older gear it sort of makes sense to upgrade also or at least helps the wallet.
 
Think I might build a new rig in the new year.

Current
3700x
16gb RAM
500gb SATA SSD
1660ti

Thinking maybe this
9800x3d (wait and see what the 9900x3d brings)
48gb RAM
1TB m.2 pcie4
4070ti super (or similar)
 
I went from 4670k, to 8700k, to 5700x last year and I've just got a 9800X3D. So usually 4-5 years except my dalliance last year. I won't go from upper end to midrange again that's for sure.
 
well for me gpu prices have slowed down any upgrades (apart from recently ditching the HDD's). The most demanding thing I use a pc for is gaming, and the GPU does the biggest impact for that. Its crazy seeing the prices now, cant think what the 50's series will be.
 
Every 10+ Years here (now) for a full refresh (usually because something has died or you need a genuine upgrade to do stuff), it used to be a much shorter time frame. But from around 2012, the CPU and RAM had advanced in capacity and performance enough where they can last 10 years with just a GPU refresh in between (assuming you obtained a 6-Core back in 2012).

X79 system was retired two years ago after the motherboard developed a critical fault from an undiagnosed manufacturing fault and took the whole system with it. And now the Z77 system is also getting replaced, so I can do AI work more efficienctly as well as have parts to perform tests and diagnostics in case the primary rig runs into any issues.
 
I usually upgrade the motherboard once or twice a year, not because I need to but mostly boredom in may case(pun not intended lol)
 
My history so far:

Athlon XP 2600+ 2 years
Core 2 E6400 2 years
Core 2 Q9400 3 years
I5 2500K 3 years
I5 4690K 4 years (my dad needed an upgrade so he had the previous CPU/mobo)
I7 8700K 3 years
R7 5800X a few months
R9 5900X 18 months (sold the 5800 to my brother as I fancied some more tinkering and did some non-gaming stuff for a while which benefitted from the extra cores)
5800X3D

I'm still very happy with the X3D and can see it lasting a couple more years.

I used to upgrade just for the fun of it, but in the case of the 2500K it brought tangible gains, and the 8700K was necessary as performance was hampered badly by 4c/4t in Battlefield 1 so the boost was very noticeable. Now I'm happy to keep going until I notice the system struggle from a CPU bottleneck (and the X3D certainly helped with smoothness straight from the off).
 
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