This will be long, and I'm sorry, but I have been spending a lot of time similarly catching up, and two things really hit me. 1) I, like a lot of people based on sigs, built a Haswell rig I was happy with and have remained happy with. 2) The number of fumbles that put Intel where it is today is really staggering and totally unexpected given where we all thought we'd be.
To me, one of the hard turns that made all those LGA1150 chips a dead-end for many is that changing meant moving to an incompatible socket and also to new RAM, RAM which at the time was crazy expensive. I know when I built my rig, DDR4 was just on the horizon, and looked pointless and pricey. I've never been one to upgrade to new rigs often, but I was used to slowly creeping up the ladder when the time struck. And from a processor and Mobo standpoint I just haven't needed to, I've upgraded RAM and video but haven't even thought about the rest, until now.
And after looking things over, I'm much more interested in replacing my mobo and upgrading my CPU . . . to something higher up the Haswell chain.
That said, my AMD RX 470 is definitely holding me back, even on the older games I have time to bother playing.
To me, one of the hard turns that made all those LGA1150 chips a dead-end for many is that changing meant moving to an incompatible socket and also to new RAM, RAM which at the time was crazy expensive. I know when I built my rig, DDR4 was just on the horizon, and looked pointless and pricey. I've never been one to upgrade to new rigs often, but I was used to slowly creeping up the ladder when the time struck. And from a processor and Mobo standpoint I just haven't needed to, I've upgraded RAM and video but haven't even thought about the rest, until now.
And after looking things over, I'm much more interested in replacing my mobo and upgrading my CPU . . . to something higher up the Haswell chain.
That said, my AMD RX 470 is definitely holding me back, even on the older games I have time to bother playing.