Why do you upgrade your CPU yearly/biennially (if you do it)?

[spectatorx]

I admit with my posts i derailed the thread a bit so.. on topic:
Personally i do upgrade once or twice per ram generation. At end of last year i upgraded from am3 to am4, to be specific from fx-6300 (which was temporary downgrade from fx-8320) and 16GB (2x8GB) 1333MHz to ryzen 7 2700x and 32GB (2x16GB) 3000MHz. Next such huge upgrade i will do to am5 with ddr5 as my current build will serve me well until that 2021-2022 when am5 and ddr5 will be released.

Until then for sure i will replace my current gpu which is r9 380 4GB, i'm aiming for top navi, rx5800 or 5900 series or whatever they will call it, definitely rx5700 is boring as hell and pointless to me. Maybe i will also add another 32GB of ram just because i can. Ryzen 3 line up looks extremely interesting but my 2700x will be sufficient enough for me for really long time so if i will upgrade cpu on am4 it will be ryzen 3 or ryzen 3 refresh and not because of pure need but only in situation when i will have too much free cash on account.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Because the poll is wishful thinking but your thread has real dollars to it. You can do the same thing with new cars or new kitchen appliances.

Plus the poll gets hit by drive-by watchers and lurkers, and typical randoms, this threads just the usuallyt on Tpu, Enthusiasts.

 

[TheMadDutchDude]

I have since the Sandy Bridge days, purely from a reviewers perspective. I've always had to have the latest chip to get motherboard samples.

 

[Animalpak]

Im still on Z97 chipset with the 4790k that i overclocked to the maximum i can 4.7 Ghz, because many new CPU's are coming out and they are better but still not by much.

GPU's are now like 1 year lifetime and they become "obsolete" way more faster than the past.

 

[birdie]

Because the poll is wishful thinking but your thread has real dollars to it. You can do the same thing with new cars or new kitchen appliances.

Guess it should have been worded differently to see who's really going to upgrade.

 

[Grog6]

I got my first PC in 1988, a 8088-1, with a turbo button to run 11MHz.

I bought a 386DX system in 1992, I can't remember which board it was.

In 94, I bought a 486DX2 system. This was VL bus. This was the DOOM era.

In 95, I bought a 486DX4 system. This was also VL bus.
I upgraded this first to a 486DX2-100, then a DX4-120 AMD.
Then I found out the DX4-120 would run 50MHz FSB, with the multiplier lowered to run the core at 100MHz.
L2 Cache was on the MB, lol.
The last processor in this mobo was a pentium Overdrive; it had a built in heatsink and fan.

There was a series of Pentium processors, from 66MHz to 133MHz.

This era was the Duke Nukem3d, Quake, and Quake 2 games; with HL mixed in somewhere.

I bought a new mobo for the P54C MMX version, as it had a separate core/bus voltage setting. They started at 90, and went to 233.
IDT made a 333MHz processor for that mobo, and that was the last one for that mobo.
This would have been the board that fist saw the TNT card.

In 1999, I bought a Socket 7 K6III-450 system. (Abit) This board saw a bunch of video cards, starting with a TNT2.

In early 2002, I bought an Athlon 1700+ system. (Abit) This one gor a V7700 video capture card, and was a TV pc for a long time.

In early 2003, I bought a P4 2.4GHz Rambus system. (Abit)

In 2004 I bought a Athlon XP-M 2500+ DDR system. (Abit)

In about 2005, I bought a Pentium D 820 system. (Asus) This one got the 7800GTX, and Windows XPx64.

In about 2008, I bought a Core2 Duo system. (Asus) This was the first system I played Crysis on. This one got a HD4870.

In late 2009, I bought an i7-920 system. (Asus) Crysis was better. This got a HD5870.

in 2011, I bought an x79 i7-3930k system. I'm still using it. (Asus) Crysis wars came out about here. This got a HD7970, got another one added in 2013, and in 2017 got a RX480.

Man, looking at it, I spent a lot of cash on these; but less than a NV 2080ti sli setup.


Also in 2011, I bought a dual Xeon server mobo for $139, and made it a game server for hosing DNF, Crysis Wars, and FEAR games. It still rocks, but I rarely use it, except for video editing; the SCSI drives sound like a jet idling, lol.

Gaming for our team died off in about 2014-2015, when gamespy shut down; most folks went to consoles.

There hasn't been a reason to upgrade anything other than video cards since, as the Core2, i7-920 and x79 systems will play anything out, pretty much.
The core2 struggles with DOOM (2016) but it runs everything else.

I'm hoping I can pick up a next-gen Threadripper setup, and keep it for another 10 years.

 

[Hotobu]

Guess it should have been worded differently to see who's really going to upgrade.

Gah! you beat me to it. The wording is kind of ambiguous. I'm most interested in the 3900X, but I'm also happy with my 1600.

As for the current thread it looks like I may be on a staggered path. The only "heavy lifting" I do on my computer is gaming. Currently I have a 1080TI, and I am waiting for the next top end card. When that drops I'm really hoping I can put a Zen 3 into my X370 (If not I'll settle for the 3900X) and hope to hold on to that for 5+ years upgrading my graphics card every other generation.

 

[erixx]

Of course, if you're well-off (e.g. a European or American)

Hm? You never heard of Japanese, Taiwanese, Thais... Dubaitees, Chinese, etc? You won't see as many "Americans''-we should start saying USA'ers- or Europeans as Chinese, boy, in the top of the top shops in Florence. They're on a spending spree!

 

[Mac2580]

I prefer to keep CPU's for as long as possible. Things like USB speed arent really something i care about which helps.

 

[StrayKAT]

Hm? You never heard of Japanese, Taiwanese, Thais... Dubaitees, Chinese, etc? You won't see as many "Americans''-we should start saying USA'ers- or Europeans as Chinese, boy, in the top of the top shops in Florence. They're on a spending spree!

I don't think the average Thais count. I'm half-Thai. My family there thinks the US is Disneyland or something. Heh. While it's a nice country and people are happy, business hasn't quite boomed there like in other places. But some Asians are definitely well off. I know quite a few hapas like myself (halfies) across the globe, and some, tbh, made me feel pretty insecure when I was younger. Many Hong Kong kids and Singapore kids are like the equivalent of "blueblood" WASPs in the US. I'm not criticizing them or jealous or anything. It's just a little intimidating how put together and wealthy they are.. and think nothing of it.

 

[phill]

I tend to buy hardware not because I need or have to update, but because I enjoy buying hardware. I've a collection, I'd like to keep it going..

I tend to use newer hardware for WCG or FAH which is at least putting it to some good use so I'm happy that I can make the most of what hardware I do have here.. That said, only some of it gets used and whilst that is a shame, when I do eventually move, I'll be sure to make use of more of it

As below in my sig too

 

[biffzinker]

I enjoy buying hardware. I've a collection, I'd like to keep it going..

Between you and @HUSKIE it almost seems like your in a competition.

 

[R-T-B]

Enjoyment. I couldn't care less what others think (If I did I'd learn cable management...), so it isn't a status thing, it's a tinkering self indulgence thing.

 

[Mac2580]

Enjoyment. I couldn't care less what others think (If I did I'd learn cable management...), so it isn't a status thing, it's a tinkering self indulgence thing.

This is very true, spent hours trying to get Fifa 19 to run smoothly on my Phenom 840 last week with no luck. Computers tend to bore me when everything works nicely. I guess its because I spent countless hours doing the same growing up. I remember spending a few months savings on NFS Underground which ran at 5-10 fps on my Pentium 3.
1998-2005 Pentium 3 Unknown Card
2005-2009 Pentium 5 2.4Ghz Nvidia 5500
2009-2012 Core 2 duo E2160 then E5700 (First Assemby) Nvidia 6600
2012-2016 Core 2 Quad Q9400 AMD R7 260x
2016-Present - Im working now, anything I want
7700k, R5 1600x and Phenom 940/840 (The DDR3 model)

 

[Melvis]

I went from skt 462, to 939, to AM3, to AM3+ to AM4 (Main PC) so on average every 5yrs, I could of made it longer honestly with my FX 8350 system and upgraded this yr to AM4 but I got a great deal on the parts so I jumped onto it and im glad I did and I can see myself been on this platform till 2025 at least with the options in CPU upgrades I will have in the next 2yrs. AM4 will be the longest living socket for me for sure, very wise move to have made!

My 2700X is fine for now and I will upgrade it to a 16core when I feel the need to do so.

AM3 to AM3+ was Motherboard only not CPU, CPU upgrade came later

 

[metalfiber]

My upgrade cycle was Pentium 4 northwood with HT, I5 2500K , I7 4770K, and I7 8700k. The next one will be sooner rather than later. I'll see when ice lake comes out who will have the best CPU for gaming AMD or Intel. I don't do brands i do gaming. I did make a mistake with the Pentium 4 Northwood because AMD had them beat by a mile back then but it was my first build.

 

[Mac2580]

My upgrade cycle was Pentium 4 northwood with HT, I5 2500K , I7 4770K, and I7 8700k. The next one will be sooner rather than later. I'll see when ice lake comes out who will have the best CPU for gaming AMD or Intel. I don't do brands i do gaming. I did make a mistake with the Pentium 4 Northwood because AMD had them beat by a mile back then but it was my first build.

Yeah I agree but I will admit Im bias towards Intel. The only reason being that this Phenom does not perform as well as my Q9400 used to. GTA V ran at 40-50FPS, im getting 30FPS. Fifa 17 lags as well the Intel was smooth. Ram and GFX are exactly the same. All benchmarks show the Phenom as being better but real world testing tells a different story.

 

[Crackong]

Going to replace my Ryzen 1800x with a 3700x, then put the 1800x in my office machine for server hosting.
I did the same thing in 2017 replacing my core i5 gaming rig with the 1800x build , then the i5 rig became the family PC.

 

[AhokZYashA]

the last system i built before this 6600k is using Core 2 Duo E7400,
and it lasts for almost 9 years, actually, the system is still running

the only parts i change every 3-4 years is the GPU, and the hard drive

 

[Vayra86]

The reason why I started this topic is because in the recent poll about Ryzen 3 absolute most people said they were interested in new CPUs and less than 15% said they wouldn't upgrade yet. According to this topic everything is the opposite which is kinda confusing:

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Are people lying or what?

Yes, its the internet.

 

[phill]

Between you and @HUSKIE it almost seems like your in a competition.

No competition that I know of but I do enjoy seeing Huskie's posts of him buying hardware I just wish I had more time with the hardware I buy so that I could actually do something with it

On a side note maybe if we don't already, we could have a collection thread or something.. But I think the hardware buying thread does that already in a way

 

[JustAnEngineer]

I upgrade frequently mostly for the bragging rights, but also because I like new technology. I follow a "trickle-down" theory of PC upgrades: I get a new PC, and my old one goes to a family member. Sometimes, their old one then goes to another family member. So, I didn't really replace that still-serviceable Core i7-6700K with a new i7-9700K... I actually replaced an ancient Core2Quad Q9300.

P.S.: I'm already contemplating a Zen 2 build in the second half of this year to replace a very serviceable Core i7-8700K, which will replace an ancient A8-3850.