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how many more years does an i7-4790 have before its irrelevancy?
| 10+ years tbh
| lmao i'm still using mine too, oc'd to 4.6.
| I mean irrelevance is a long time, you're probably going to want an upgrade before that
If you're doing media creation, like encoding and stuff a processer with more cores would likely help, less down time is more creative time and all that
| If you don't actually use any CPU intense tasks then you're probably fine for idk 5-10 years before browsing the web and watching video feels sluggish I'd guess assuming it's fine right now
| As long as you watch your temps and make sure it has some good thermal paste, it should last at least another 5 years depending on what you're using it for. I would be more concerned about your motherboard kicking the bucket first though, espeicially if you've OC'd your cpu.
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| it works fine for my everyday use and media creation work at the moment, but how soon might it be before I'll be forced to upgrade to a new processor?