I finally upgraded my home machine this year, up from an i7 4770k, ~7 year old processor. The memory was starting to fail, and I figured it was finally due. I

I finally upgraded my home machine this year, up from an i7 4770k, ~7 year old processor. The memory was starting to fail, and I figured it was finally due. I've replaced the GPU a couple of times, and upgraded storage but that's about it. It's a nice boost for certain workloads that thread well, but it's not a huge boost for single threaded workloads except for certain specialised stuff where there are newer instructions to take advantage of. Contrast that to a roughly comparable time frame: 486sx 60Mhz -> Athlon 1Ghz. Short of a major revolution, I expect this CPU/Memory will last me just as long.