Neapolitan6th
[H]ard|Gawd
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If I had known Ryzen would come out... Haha. Jumped on with a 6800k myself.At some point, it becomes more cost-effective to just get a new board and new stuff. I know someone who still has an AM2+ board from 2008, recently got the most powerful Phenom II X6 CPU for it, 16GB of DDR2, an SSD, and a 1050 Ti, and it's basically a modern gaming PC for not-too-demanding games. But honestly, if he'd just gotten the cheapest H310 motherboard and a Pentium dual-core, it would have performed better and supported all the new features and an upgrade path to a 9900K. So at some point, money is better spent on upgrading your whole platform haha.
To think you can jump on AM4 with a $50 200GE and a $90 ITX motherboard. And later upgrade to some yet to be announced 8, 12, maybe 16 core part.
I'm in the same boat as you. I don't really need the upgrade, but I sure wish there was a frugal upgrade path here.