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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...