why do you lads upgrade your cpus so often? >using a 3570k

I'd say if your CPU has core 2 in its name, or is earlier than that, it is probably time to upgrade your CPU. If you're still using fucking Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge, you're probably fine.

>>60940378
People are still happy with their OCed 2500k and 2600ks. Only real reason to upgrade if if you really need extra cores for things like video encoding.

I don't because CPU upgrades are a pain.

CPUs are a meme. You could probably still use a dual core and be fine.

If you are on Nehalem or older you should upgrade. Newer than that, no.

Threads have show a lot of nehelam era people upgrading to ryzen. That was the time when you could get a quad core for ~£140.

Clockspeed is only one measurement of a CPU's power, and not even particularly useful.
For 99.9% of users (inc. gaymers), however, CPU should just werk.

I only upgrade my CPU when I build a whole new computer

>>60940378
what is that glue-filled monstrosity

>>60940555
that's a boy

>>60940378
A Zen2 8 core would be a viable upgrade for you. I'm a 6600k corelet myself and we're doing alright for another 2 or 3 years even with sandy bridge. You're a gaymer so you won't need the amazing Zen multitasking - who would've guessed? I'm also unsure how the X years old CPU vs Zen is a viable argument when skylake only improved ipc by maybe 10% over ivy bridge. Intel didn't move forward either.

>>60940378
Whats his name?

>>60940378
Why not?

The only reason I wanna upgrade is muh VT-d

Still rocking an i5 760

Only now thinking about upgrading and that's only due to the amount of heat its dumping out, not to a lack of performance.

I have an i5-4460 and games that use all of its cores shit the bed when anything happens in the background while games that use only one core shit the bed all the time. I guess if you have an i7-XXXK, you're set for years to come.