How To Know When It's Time To Upgrade Your CPU

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[alexgottmituns]

Thank you for this vid. I upgraded from my 7 year old 5930K to a 10700KF this year and haven't looked back.

[Vladx]

You upgrade once a certain swearing threshold is crossed and you’re very tempted to punch your monitor.

[relevantusername]

When you can no longer play your fully modded Skyrim. It's time to upgrade.

[YoutubeWatcher]

I feel like my 3700x was the best bang for the buck out of anything I got. It runs so amazingly well and it was like 400$ Cad.

[MrDaniyalAh]

I'm so early that Intel is still making 4core flagship CPUs.

[rangersmith]

It's similar to knowing when it's time to upgrade your phone. When you seem to spend more time waiting for things to happen than you spend telling them to happen, it's time. This machine runs a 6850K, a couple of generations later that that 3930K, and I've had it since launch. It's not high-end anymore, and it's not my main gamer (that's a 3900X), but the X99 platform still has advantages over any Ryzen chip, like 40 PCIe lanes. If you need the lanes.

[powtmow]

I'm upgrading from my old and rusty i7 960 to an i7 10700. Should be night and day.

[highlanderknight]

Still using an i7 4790k (OC'd to 4.6 on all cores). I am happy with it, but I do want a new system and have not been able to get the AMD 5900x so far and I refuse to pay scalper prices.

[jakeabcabc]

3930k was my old computer. I went from that to the ryzen 2700x, then upgraded only the CPU on the 2700x to the 5950x. I plan on using the 5950x for 10 years if possible. :-) The 3930k computer still works fine, and I keep it going so I can play borderlands 3, 2 player, with my brother. The old computer is using a geforce 1060 6gig, and the new one is using a 1080 ti. Was going to upgrade it to 3080, but with the market now, I've decided just to wait 2 years for the next generation of Video cards.

[ZeroHourProductions]

Yeah, I ended up going from a 5820K, to a 9900K that I then de-lidded because... intel might say that the chip was designed to run 90C all the time, but I started with Socket A, where you got instability if it even hit 57C. :P
Honestly, it's kind of nuts how much more palpable the upgrade was, despite UserBenchmark and some sites insisting it's "only" 30% improvement. But keep in mind, I went from a Q6600, to the 5820K. and now the 9900K. The wife now has my 5820K build, because she went from a Phenom II 1090T, to it, to get by until finances make it possible to upgrade her to something more current.

[lk]

For me, it's when I'm faced with something that makes me go "well, this is not ideal" when I try to run at the settings I want. I knew the writing was on the wall for my 2700x and 1080ti with Control and 2077, so I upgraded from that and sold the old PC to someone who needed a machine for actual work.

[eclipsegst]

You wait till all the threads peg out at 100% on the latest game, and adding a bit extra RAM doesn't solve the problem... right? lol

[akashshaw]

After watching his videos ...It makes me feel more poor

[jedpratte]

The deal was end of last year when I snagged my 10850k for sub $450. I wanted to go 5900x but makes zero sense paying the scalper price.

[dcabral]

Somehow, I think that recommending an upgrade to someone because the hardware today is 100 times better, feels more like telling someone to keep up with the Joneses. I have a 4770k, and although I would love an upgrade, I don't see a practical reason to do so. That computer is still quite decent for the games that I play and has become a reliable work-at-home workstation. Also, considering the present hardware shortage of everything, it truly does not hurt to simply wait.

[MattMachine]

I just upgraded this year from the 3770 to a 10700kf. I think I still could have gotten a couple years out of that old chip, but it was time to upgrade, mainly because I needed a GPU upgrade and the only way to acquire one easier was to buy a prebuilt system.

[northerngaming]

Still rocking an i7-5820k, still going strong.

Haven't honestly felt like I've needed an upgrade for what I do so I've been holding out for first gen AM5 so I can buy in with a good upgrade path from there.

[ElecTricKTitaN]

Always find your video insightful.
Thanks for the content.
Always learning.

[Cspacecat]

I'm still using my 3930K in the living room as a server. I recently upgraded to windows 10 in an MVME PCI-e card. It's still working just fine. When it dies, I have a 6700k processor, RAM and motherboard to replace it with.

[silvertree]

My kids are rocking my old Phenom X4 9750, 8gb of ddr2, and HD 6770, vanilla Minecraft at 720p gets 30fps. But yeah it's really showing it age, hopefully I can keep them on it until the shortages settle down.