I bought my 3930K in June of 2012! Holy crap!

[moonbogg]

I just found the receipt in my email and its just over 4 years old. I can't remember having many PC parts that long. Only a set of speakers I think, which I still have. Jesus, that's crazy. I have spent thousands on other PC stuff, but never felt temped to buy another platform. This has never happened before. I still don't care very much about getting another CPU. Maybe Skylake-E if its worth it.
If I get something like an 8 core Skylake-E, that CPU will probably last until the technology experiences a fundamental shift to something way different. CPU's have basically reached maturity for what they are. They are basically dead to me. Can you imagine how long an 8 core, overclocked Skylake would remain capable and relevant? 10+ years easy. Easy. Easy. Easy.
Anyone else not care much about CPU's? Find yourself using your money for other stuff? Any chance of upgrading any time soon?

 

[Einzige]

It seems like tech is slowing down these days... Oh wait, smartphones. I take that back.

Well desktops are at least. But then again that is illusory. Remember SNES to n64 era? 3d was a big deal--it was a major change. Then on to ps2 and Xbox we had our first taste of halfway decent 3d graphics which was major as well

However, these days the next gen just seems... More detailed. Shiney. More open worldish.

All that power is being used to simply allow more to go on at once... To add fine details like hair (hair works). It's not as noticeable.

That's this era I suppose.

 

[jimbob200521]

I'm still "only" rocking a quad core i7 OC'd to 4.2ghz and since I don't do anything that intensive other than the occasional video game or short video, I think my next biggest change will be to Windows 10.

 

[krumme]

Win 10 is ok. Dont know how different to w7 it is but a change to the better for sure.

 

[Timmah!]

I have been thinking over this recently, when i contemplated buying 6850k, which should be about 1,5x faster as my current 980x. I bought 980x in May 2010. So 1,5 speed-up in 6 years, and thats only because i compare 980x at the clocks i am running (3,8GHz) with clocks i would want 6850k to run, if possible (4,3-4,5Ghz).

Anyway, before 980x, from 2000 to 2010 i had Duron 700MHz, Athlon64 3200+ Venice and C2D E8400 (still have that one in my older back-up rig, it was awesome, 3,6 GHz out of the box, unlike singlecore Athlon it could run Supreme Commander)... the Duron was getting about 60 points in CPU Mark 99, presumably only single threaded benchmark. 980x got 600 points. So we got 10x speed-up per core, multiplied by 6, technically 60x faster CPU. In 10 years. Now i got 1,5x faster in 6. Granted Duron was not the fastest CPU in 2000, nor is 6850k now...but even if i got 6950x, it would only be about 2x as fast as 980x, still nowhere near 60x.

Despite all that, i dont regret anything and i am happy i got 6850k. Hopefully it will OC well.

 

[Painman]

I'm still "only" rocking a quad core i7 OC'd to 4.2ghz and since I don't do anything that intensive other than the occasional video game or short video, I think my next biggest change will be to Windows 10.

Unless you have a compelling need for particular Win10 features, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

I apparently, unintentionally agreed to the update, ran it for 6 months give or take, and reverted to Windows 7 upon purchasing an SSD.

Back on topic... I bought my i5 and mobo on 3/29/2012. Still running it @ stock nearly 4 1/2 years later.

Now that I've moved my visuals up to 1440p, I'm finally feeling the itch to OC my stuff again.

 

[jimbob200521]

Unless you have a compelling need for particular Win10 features, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

I apparently, unintentionally agreed to the update, ran it for 6 months give or take, and reverted to Windows 7 upon purchasing an SSD.

Back on topic... I bought my i5 and mobo on 3/29/2012. Still running it @ stock nearly 4 1/2 years later.

Now that I've moved my visuals up to 1440p, I'm finally feeling the itch to OC my stuff again.

I actually had no intent to upgrade to Windows 10 (Direct X 12 be damned) but was building a system for a friend and they wanted Windows 10. So naturally, I installed it as well as drivers, software, etc. I found myself as I worked on actually kinda liking it, short of a few very minor annoyances. By the time the system was done, I caught myself wishing I hadn't missed that annoying nagging free upgrade to Windows 10 notification on my main PC. Without getting into a full blown personal review, I found it to be a very efficiently functioning modern OS. The system I built, btw, was a C2Q system with 4gb of RAM. No joke, Windows 10 ran more smoothly on that system than Windows 7 did. Guess you live and learn.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I bought my current 2600K in September of 2011. :|

 

[simas]

January 2011 from Microcenter along the first motherboards that supported SB (and 2 months later had to be recalled due to bug). Still running 2600K not over clocked , looking for time when upgrading would make sense. Not interested in another quad, unhappy with what seems to be crazy MB prices for some Intel chipsets. Future will come

 

[moonbogg]

January 2011 from Microcenter along the first motherboards that supported SB (and 2 months later had to be recalled due to bug). Still running 2600K not over clocked , looking for time when upgrading would make sense. Not interested in another quad, unhappy with what seems to be crazy MB prices for some Intel chipsets. Future will come

I did the same. Bought 2600k the instant it was available online. Replaced it with 3930k later, so I've been on Sandy since the very start as well. I like upgrades, but every time I get some spending money together I can't bring myself to spend it on a platform. Hell, I decided on a full blown water cooling set up instead of getting a new platform. I was more interested in cooling than a new CPU. When my favorite games still stay over 100fps, then a new CPU is about as boring a purchase as I could make. I might as well pretend like I have a new CPU in my case, because even if there really was I wouldn't know the difference unless benchmarking.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Moonbogg, you rock.

 

[escrow4]

Moonbogg, you rock.

Think of the money you would have saved with a single 3930K system back in 2012 as opposed to buying all that slow junk inbetwixt then and now.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Point taken.

Though, I really don't like to pay more than $100 for a CPU. Something psychological, I guess.

 

[ehume]

My wife runs a Dell from 2008. A while ago I rejuvenated it with an SSD. She likes it fine.

I ran an i7 875K from the spring of 2010. When I got an i7 4770k, I passed the 875k to my daughter. She loves it. She turned down a 6700k to keep it. such is progress.

I run Win 10 on my (former Win 8) laptop and my (former 8.1) testing machine, so I thought it would be OK. I carefully waited to July, then I did a free "upgrade" of my Win7 box to Win 10. Within the month I was back to Win7.

Win 10 is a work in progress. MS fired most (all?) of their in-house beta-testers so some things get missed. Their UI (try importing photos from a memory card, for example) sucks. It will take some time to get their UI to match Win 7's UI, since they are starting from a base of Win 8, not Win7.

In most ways it is a retrogression. If you have Win7 working well on a system, there is no reason to "improve" it with Win 10.

 

[mnewsham]

After my i7 laptop 6990m GPU died on me (~$700 replacement part at the time) I went back to use a C2Q Q6600/8GB DDR2 I had lying around, with an SSD and a GTX9800 it wasn't half bad. But this 5820k will be a solid platform for a good long time for me I think. And Microcenter had it for $310 at the time so can't complain.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

I think it'll be a long time until I upgrade anything of mine. It'll be a tough sell unless new parts are cheap. Especially since I use my PC for work there's nothing 8 threads can't tackle.

 

[Arachnotronic]

I just found the receipt in my email and its just over 4 years old. I can't remember having many PC parts that long. Only a set of speakers I think, which I still have. Jesus, that's crazy. I have spent thousands on other PC stuff, but never felt temped to buy another platform. This has never happened before. I still don't care very much about getting another CPU. Maybe Skylake-E if its worth it.
If I get something like an 8 core Skylake-E, that CPU will probably last until the technology experiences a fundamental shift to something way different. CPU's have basically reached maturity for what they are. They are basically dead to me. Can you imagine how long an 8 core, overclocked Skylake would remain capable and relevant? 10+ years easy. Easy. Easy. Easy.
Anyone else not care much about CPU's? Find yourself using your money for other stuff? Any chance of upgrading any time soon?

This is exactly why people shouldn't cheap out on the CPU/platform. Buy something good and it'll last for years.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I pulled the string for Skylake 6700K parts, a delid with replacement CLU and a binned chip. I figure it was about time: 5 years since I moved up to new technology; 2 years since I built my last workstation SB workstation and 2 years since I built an IB-K system for my brother.

Why? Why!? Curiosity. A desire to keep up. An annual budget plan for computer parts, and a no-interest-for-one-year on the payback.

A friend wants me to pack up my 2600K and send it UPS. He'll pay what I ask, with shipping.

But these old skt-1155 systems still have a lot of potential, just like the OP with his SB-E system.

This is the third or fourth generation hence Sandy Bridge, so an upgrade and sell-off or hand-me-down seems in order.

 

[CFP]

I'm still rocking a 3570k from 2012 and probably won't upgrade it for a few years yet.

 

[NavJitsU4]

Last week I upgraded from my Q6600/GTX660/8GBDDR2 to i54790/r9 290/16gb.

I game almost every weekend, and the OC'd Q6600 lasted me from 2007 to 2016! I originally had a 8800gt in it, upgrade to the gtx660 2 years ago. It played everything at 1080 up until recently (new doom, gt5 etc it just couldn't handle).

 

[cytg111]

It is unreal is it not? I was peggning sandybridge as the first 10-year rig back then, however with coffeelake and maybe zen, a regular quad might begin to feel the envy. Your hex on the other hand problary IS worthy of a whole decade.

 

[cytg111]

Last week I upgraded from my Q6600/GTX660/8GBDDR2 to i54790/r9 290/16gb.

I game almost every weekend, and the OC'd Q6600 lasted me from 2007 to 2016! I originally had a 8800gt in it, upgrade to the gtx660 2 years ago. It played everything at 1080 up until recently (new doom, gt5 etc it just couldn't handle).

Holy moley, thats value for money. I retired a Q9450 not long ago.. I am a fps'er so i need my frames but other than that it was doing everything just fine.

 

[Burpo]

I have a Win7 x64 system that BSOD's.

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