Heh, Intel do certainly know how to make a good chip, I'm still a generation behind you again with a 9 year old Core2Quad (2 years of it's life have been spent running WoW for me, sad times) which has never had too much issues handling the majority of games, Considering its age (it was costly before) but it definitely shoots holes through every "you gotta upgrade a gaming PC every 15 minutes" argument that I read.
There are always those who will want the newest tech just because every PC gamecase seems to put the i7 on there as recommended now just because well, I guess and it frees them of someone having a PC setup poorly and not getting the most out of their older chipset. Still tho, gives the mistaken illusion that you can't have a great time with semi older pieces inside your beast.
One tech from the last couple of years (or moreso popular and cheaper in the last few years) is a good SSD, just from a quality of life, PC starting up in single digit figures of seconds, applications jumping at you before you click on them, if you spend a lot of time on a PC (even if it isn't gaming) you are literally wasting time out of your short life if you have your OS and programs on an old magnetic HDD imo, SSD will literally save you hours of waiting from your lifetime! And yeah... they're getting so cheap now that everyone should consider getting at least an OS sized one, at the very least. 240gb ones do not break into triple figures anymore.
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