What's your CPU upgrade cycle?

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In my younger days I used to always want the latest and greatest as long as I could afford it but. But these days I'm tending to stick with my cpu hardware for longer and so do a lot of people that I know. With amd making this much easier to do given the easier upgrade path available with AM4/5, I was just wondering what the general upgrade cycle for some of you guys is for your cpu needs.

I guess the reason was I was just watching this video and it got me thinking about my future upgrade plans:

AMD IS KILLING INTEL WITH THIS DECISION!!!

AMD wants to stay on AM5 for as long as they can and they are currently sticking by their 2025+ statement. The platform is expected to receive a major update...

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And by the end of the video, I'd reached the conclusion that I'm probably going to just go for the last iteration in each platform before the switch to a new one, as I'm thinking this is probably going to be a three to 4 year cycle which most cpus at least for my usage which is primarily gaming and a little bit of light photo/video editing should see me quite comfortably in terms of performance.

So are you a latest and greatest kind of person or one who likes to hold on and get the most out of their hardware for as long as they can resist the upgrade urge?

 

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Yeah it seems to be as long as you go for at least a mid-tier CPU, they tend to last and perform very well for the most part.

I'll probably upgrade when the last iteration of AM5 is released and then upgrade again when the last iteration of AM6 or whatever Intel has at the time. It is interesting to see people's habits though

 

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It different these days as back in the day you had to upgrade almost every year to keep up with the games

Lol the days before hardware T&L!!

I think the first PC I ever built for myself was with a Celeron 300A...

Now, that was a cracking CPU!!

 

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Pentium III/Athlon/Athlon XP era, I upgraded many times a year, trying different boards, CPUs and platforms to overclock as high as possible. We were still mainly CPU bound.

Pentium 4 into Athlon 64 era, I upgraded yearly, ish. Maybe 18 months outside edge.

As soon as Core 2 Quad hit, I pretty much stuck with a platform for 18-24 months, going from X38 to X58 to X79, X99 and finally X299X.

I’ve not upgraded yet from my 10980XE, though just about getting the urge to now, maybe.

HEDT is now monumentally stupid in its pricing so I’ve very little desire to go HEDT from either Intel or AMD.

Agreed, which is why I admire what AMD have done with AM4 and 5 in terms of their upgrade road map where you just need to drop in a new CPU if you want a nice performance jump which could even be generational.

X99 5820K was my last CPU before moving to my current setup and it was a really nice boost but definitely the last time I would be going with HEDT platforms.

 

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I'm hoping that AMD continue the trend with supporting multiple generations of CPU on a single platform as they have over the past few years it really adds a whole new value aspect to going with them especially considering how good their performance is generally speaking.