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What's your CPU upgrade cycle?

Modern CPU's are so powerful these days, that I suspect that I will stick with my I5-12600k for a couple more years yet.
Used to (like a lot of other "enthusiasts") pretty much upgrade every other generation.
 
Pentium D 945 > Q6600 > 2600k > 2600x

Really need to upgrade but cant decided on 5800x3d or spending extra and doing a full refresh for 7800x3d
 
I'm currently running an i9-9900K but have just bought a bundle with an i5-12600 and it is pretty much as capable, so I'm not sure about any upgrades in the near future.

I'll probably wait until the 13th series processors come down in price a bit and buy a 13700K or 13900K as the MB supports those.
 
held onto a phenom II 955 for far to long, somehting like 8 years or more then went to a i5 6600k then a ryzen 3600 and sitting on a ryzen 5700x at the moment with 32 gig 3600 and a radeon 7800xt, think i will sit on this config for quite a while.

my upgrades have speeded up in recent years but i see no reason to upgrade my cpu for a long time yet :)
 
2500k (Decade) - 2600 (3 years) - 5700X (18 months so far)

I'll be riding AM4 for as long as possible I'm hoping for another 3 years at least, hopefully 5.
 
I usually start thinking about upgrading when I hit a noticeable CPU bottleneck in a game I'm playing. And then it's look for the best bang for buck at the time.

No cycle really.
 
2500k to Ryzen 1600 & now a 5600. So not very often. I'm still using 1st gen am4 mobo though & I'll probably refresh the whole system when the next gen releases.
 
phatboy said:
The struggle is real!

Im currently on 5000 Ryzen and its perfect for everything........but my powers are weak and 7 is calling!
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I know this feeling.

I am currently using an I7 9700K at stock with 32GB of DDR4 ram.

Over the last week or so I have been tempted to sell my mobo\cpu\ram and upgrade to Intel 14th gen or the AMD 7800X3D.

I really do not need too but just fancy something new as its been 4 years or so now
 
I stick with what I have until an upgrade could offer me at least 50% more real-world performance for my typical usage before I'll even consider an upgrade. Even then, it has to be for "sensible" money.

I'm currently running an overclocked AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and AMD Radeon 5700XT with the OS on a PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD and 32GB of DDR4-3600 RAM on an MSI X570 mobo, so upgrade time for any component is still some way off yet.
 
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9900K for 3 years then 7950X since last year- will probably be my last significant upgrade as also has RTX4090 so cant see much improvements in next 5 or so years, by then I think I will be too old to even worry about it
 
I'm on a ryzen 5800X, and just about resisted the urge to upgrade to a 7950X(3D) by telling myself that I haven't yet had any real issues with any games and although an upgrade might be nice for hobby video editing purposes I'm still perfectly able to do everything I want to.

I'm probably going to buy one of the next generation of CPUs though.
 
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Can't remember what I had before it but from memory Q6600 > 4770k > 5950x > 14900k. That jump from the 4770k to the 5950x was huge.
 
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About every 3-5 years I think.

Intel P120mhz -> Celeron 333a -> Pentium 3 733mhz -> Pentium 4 2.4ghz Northwood -> E2160 @2.66ghz -> E4400 @3ghz -> Q6600 @3.2ghz -> i5 750 @4ghz -> i7 920 @4ghz -> Xeon X5650 @4ghz -> i7 6800k -> Ryzen 3700x -> Ryzen 5800x
 
486
Amd k6-2 333
Amd k6-2 550
Core 2 duo
Core 2 quad
4820k
10850k current - will keep another 2 years or so then upgrade.
 
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CPU gets upgraded whenever it gets too slow for the games that I play. Recently upgraded from a 3600 to a 5800x mostly for the extra cores for Football Manager but it's been a surprisingly good upgrade in other games too, especially CP 2077. :)
 
Just bought a 7800X3D as a placeholder. I'm hoping for 2-3 slot-in upgrades over the next few years. It'll be fun to just upgrade the CPU rather than the whole darned system.
 
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