That depends a little. For every day use - since the first SSD I've not really had problems. For games - I'm not usually one to chase fresh AAA titles, so eit

That depends a little. For every day use - since the first SSD I've not really had problems. For games - I'm not usually one to chase fresh AAA titles, so either my 2008ish Core 2 Duo or my 2012 i5. That were 4 years and then I only upgraded in 2019 after 7 years, while still using the machine mostly for games. Work is a whole different thing though. From 2013-2017 I had an i7 (laptop), which was kinda fine as I was "only" doing Java, Python, ops stuff etc - so a huge SSD and a lot of RAM were more important. End of 2017 I started doing mostly C++ and they gave me an i5 laptop, I hated every minute of it because of the compile times. Now I'm not doing so much C++ and now an i5 is fine again.