> Anybody else finding that the need for upgrades slowed down dramatically? It's kinda random for me: at some point I used a Core i7 6th-gen (6700 then replace

> Anybody else finding that the need for upgrades slowed down dramatically? It's kinda random for me: at some point I used a Core i7 6th-gen (6700 then replaced the 6700 with a 6700K: long story) for seven years, something insane like that. Then got a 3700X, upgraded after a year or so to a 7700X and I'm now seriously considering the 9700X (for the lower TDP and +12% on single-core perfs and maybe, at long last, some ECC). But then I did put a process in place: when I buy a new machine, my wife gets my old one (so she now has the 3700X) and my mother-in-law gets the old-old one (so she's got the 6700K atm). Basically: I feel good about upgrading my machine because everybody gets a faster machine when I upgrade. I'll probably add my daughter into the mix too.