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by Nition 3061 days ago
In the 90s five years made a huge difference and some people still have that mindset. In the 2010s five years is nothing. I kept my last desktop PC for seven years with only an SSD upgrade and it was still running new games on medium graphics settings. In seven years the new CPU had not quite doubled in performance vs. the old one[1].

[1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=838&cmp[]=256...