I’m jumping from Ivy Bridge to Alder Lake at present… so jumping 9 generations?

every year because I want to have the newest hardware.

six generations is a good time.

I seem to average every 6-7 years since I started building myself. Phenom ii x4 965 in 2010, i7 7700k in 2017, and I’m looking to upgrade to either a 12900k or 7800 x3d next month.

I went from i5 7500 to i5 8600K to 9700K to 9900K to 12600K to 14700K. So whenever the fancy takes me.

When it can no longer maintain over 60 fps in a game I am playing. Usually works out to every 6 years or so

Went from a 2009 Xeon to a 12100F and the difference in fps is enourmous.

When the new model gives me at least twice performance per buck. If I don’t see double the values on those benchmark scores I am not moved.

I don’t have a schedule. I had a 3770K for a while and was good, although I could see it a getting a bit slower with some workloads. I upgraded to an 9900K which was pretty good to this day, however I needed to upgrade my Proxmox server with more RAM (which was running on that 3770K).

I got an 14900K and moved the 9900K to Proxmox. I don’t see ugprading for the forseeable future, unless a new need arises or a newer technology that I definitely need arrives.

Every couple of years but I really enjoy building and tinkering with PCs. I also trickle down my old parts to family builds.

I upgrade hhen new RAM is released (DDR4 -> DDR5), I had an i5 from the sixth generation. Upgraded to an i7 of the fourteenth gen.

I upgraded from the first I5 to the last I5 😂 (1st gen to 14th gen)