Every generation? Every other? Every 4?

Debating on going from a 10700k to something 15th gen.

  • Itikar@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I recently went from an i5-3330k to an i7-12700k. The jump was noticeable to say the least.

  • Kamewalker@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I upgrade hhen new RAM is released (DDR4 -> DDR5), I had an i5 from the sixth generation. Upgraded to an i7 of the fourteenth gen.

  • HackedVirus@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    3-5 generations, usually around the time my GPU is vastly overpowered for my cpu and I feel it’s time to claim that extra performance lol

  • DreadWeaper@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I went from 7800x to 13700k and felt like that was as long as I could possibly wait. So give or take 5-6 years.

  • antithesis85@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    As others have said, when there’s something you want/need to do and the CPU is no longer either enough to do it or too unreasonably slow to handle it efficiently.

    In my case, the last time was [technically] from a Celeron J3455 in a mini-PC to an i5-9400 in a full-blown desktop. But if we’re talking about the old actual desktop that the new desktop replaced, it was actually from Coppermine-128 straight to Coffee Lake Refresh.

    For the things I do, the CFL-R is still perfectly fine, and for those things where it isn’t, I have an A770 in the rig now. Maybe Nova Lake will convince me to build a new setup.

  • _Dreamss@alien.topBEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Every 3 to 4 generations I believe. Personally went from 4460 to 8500 to 13500

  • Spyder123r@alien.topBEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    i7 4790k to i7 7700k to i9 12900K just last year. So am moving to 15th or 16th gen or probably 17th gen in the next few years.

    Only reason I upgraded to 12900k was because Windows 11 do not support 7th gen and below and in the upcoming update for Windows 12.