Hit 10,000 hours on my main rig and it forced a full rebuild

I've been running the same i7-4790k system since 2015. Last week the counter on my uptime tracker hit exactly 10,000 hours of gaming and rendering. That number made me stop and think - a decade of daily use on that poor chip. I finally caved and bought a Ryzen 7600 setup plus new DDR5 sticks. The difference in boot times alone is insane, like 45 seconds down to 12. Has anyone else had a specific milestone make them finally upgrade?

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schmidt.grant2d ago

That "45 seconds down to 12" for boot times really hits home. I did a similar jump from an old Haswell chip to a Ryzen 5600 a couple years back, and the first time I sat down to use it I actually thought something was broken because it booted so fast. It's funny how we just get used to waiting around for our machines to catch up, then a simple upgrade changes everything about how you interact with the thing.

cameron_chen632d ago

Did you notice a big jump in how stable your framerates are during games or is it more the snappy feel of the whole system? I'm curious cause I ran a 4690k until last year and the real killer for me wasn't boot times but how everything got choppy and stuttery in newer games no matter what settings I used.