[witheld]

I can’t see myself needing a CPU upgrade for a long time. I used Ivy Bridge for a decade, and my Ryzen is far far more powerful.

Right now the only compute upgrade I need is a GPU and I think that applies to a lot of people.

[zamadatix]

That era marked the lowest level of competition in CPU performance and it really showed in terms of how relatively lame an upgrade with the leader of the time (Intel) was. With AMD's products being competitive and ARM CPUs no longer being relegated to smartphone class performance there is real competition again. Given that and the historical tendency that software grows to use the available hardware I wouldn't bank on every CPU upgrade lasting as long as they did in that period.

But damn if it hasn't been hard to get a good deal on a GPU these last couple of years...