The number of gamers who upgrade yearly is fairly small, and the number who upgrade their base platform (CPU + mobo) yearly is even smaller. I would be very su

The number of gamers who upgrade yearly is fairly small, and the number who upgrade their base platform (CPU + mobo) yearly is even smaller. I would be very surprised if there were more than a million in the latter category. As for datacenters and compute farms, the large ones are upgrading portions of their systems yearly, if not expanding on top of that.