Not if you picked the right platform. AM4 serves me well since 2017, all the way from ryzen 1700 and 16gigs of ram to 5700X3D and 32Gigs now. Same motherboard - and I expect it to serve me for another 5 years
Things move forward. I’m with a 5900X, it was one of the best CPUs to buy 4-5 years ago (it’s still doing well for me), but recently, just out of curiosity I found out that a current laptop CPU beats it by a solid 15-20% in single thread performance.
I’m still angry at myself that I didn’t upgrade to AM5 before the current crisis - mainly because 32 gigs of RAM aren’t cutting it for me any more (and it didn’t make sense to pour money into the old platform).
Upgrading each year seems pointless, but once every 3-4 years is I think reasonable.
That’ll save money but I don’t think it nullifies parts being expensive. My GPU is now legacy (1050Ti) because I didn’t upgrade it when I did my 2019 AM4 build (sale prices were great). Ryzen seems like it’s more expensive now due to its success.
With how prices are I’ll probably keep using these parts until I stop using a computer.
Not if you picked the right platform. AM4 serves me well since 2017, all the way from ryzen 1700 and 16gigs of ram to 5700X3D and 32Gigs now. Same motherboard - and I expect it to serve me for another 5 years
Things move forward. I’m with a 5900X, it was one of the best CPUs to buy 4-5 years ago (it’s still doing well for me), but recently, just out of curiosity I found out that a current laptop CPU beats it by a solid 15-20% in single thread performance.
I’m still angry at myself that I didn’t upgrade to AM5 before the current crisis - mainly because 32 gigs of RAM aren’t cutting it for me any more (and it didn’t make sense to pour money into the old platform).
Upgrading each year seems pointless, but once every 3-4 years is I think reasonable.
That’ll save money but I don’t think it nullifies parts being expensive. My GPU is now legacy (1050Ti) because I didn’t upgrade it when I did my 2019 AM4 build (sale prices were great). Ryzen seems like it’s more expensive now due to its success.
With how prices are I’ll probably keep using these parts until I stop using a computer.