When I built my i7-3770K system last year (checks - wow almost exactly a year, time flies at my age)... Anyway when I built it I promised myself I wouldn't do a serious upgrade for ten years. 16GB RAM and a solid ASUS mb should make it at least usable for that length of time.
I just cannot afford to keep up with these new sockets every couple of years for a start...
*grumbles and wanders off to potting shed*
I just cannot afford to keep up with these new sockets every couple of years for a start...
*grumbles and wanders off to potting shed*
), and I was looking at doing what I usually do - buying new mobo etc. for my PC and shifting my old mobo etc. over to her rig. And then I looked at benchmarks, and the performance improvements in game offered by the current generation of processors are just pitifully small. Out of game, my PC eats for breakfast anything I throw at it (granted, I don't do any video work). I'm less inclined than ever to keep chasing upgrades.