One of the reasons I began building my own PCs was the(what I soon found out to be) the false promise of upgradeability. Whether it was Intel or AMD based, each new generation of CPU usually required at a minimum a new motherboard. Then there was the RAM. Even today, we have seen RAM go from DDR to DDR4 in a relatively short time. The same can be said for the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), which I will just refer to as the video card. From VGA to PCI-e the video card standards changed so often. Bringing a new meaning to planned obsolescence. I would gladly spend my hard earned dollars for that fractional increase in processing speed. Well that was then and this is now. Guess what I haven’t changed. I’m still willing to pay for the fastest processor and graphics. Except, now I can actually upgrade my PC. The time between significant changes to CPUs and GPUs is getting longer and longer. As long as the CPU socket (basically being able to reuse the motherboard) remains the same, an Intel or AMD CPU can be upgraded. The same can be said of the GPU and to a lesser extent RAM. Oh I still got sucked into the Intel Skylake hype and had to buy everything (except for the video card that could have been reused) new.
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