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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Probably. The 3 things I hate upgrading are motherboards, power supplies and cases. There's so many components you need to deal with that it's very time consuming so I certainly liked the idea of only needing to upgrade the CPU. It basically became similar to upgrading the GPU in many ways since removing the cooler and putting a new CPU in place takes like 5 minutes (including getting into the case and such) where as doing the rest can take hours.

So it is kind of lame that we probably will be going back to 2-3 gen cycle on AMD. But I think AMD is leaving AM4 in a good place where you really don't need anything more for gaming until the PS6/Series XI comes out.

I feel like that's been the irksome part about upgrading desktops, especially for me, because I still need to work on my cable management. There's nothing more annoying than having to take out the mobo, all the other parts and then cables, then having to connect everything back together with a new mobo correctly, then finding out I didn't connect everything proper (this is why I don't bother with cable management until everything works as intended). 

Putting in a new CPU is the part I get shaky about though, the pins bending is nightmare fuel to me, but it is pretty much like swapping in a new GPU. The easiest parts for me to replace have to be the GPU, RAM, drives and fans (fans are probably my fave part, because their cable management is easy.

Yea even after all these years of not bending pins, it still makes me essh. Like we all know there are ways to make putting the CPU into the socket easily, idk why we still have to deal with the usual nonsense.

Like look at how easy it is to install Epyc/Threadripper CPUs:

Granted that's LGA and AMD currently has Pins but Intel should have at least been able to come up with something. But alas, us consumers get the consumer treatment I suppose...

Also you say fan cable management is easy but my RGB fan cable management has been hellish. Those come with the fan cable, the rgb cable which then connects to a fan/rgb controller that needs its own sata cable, mobo usb cable, argb cable and pwn cable which connects to the motherboard. There really should be an easy way for that as well but alas...