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Yeah, that's kind of how I did it. I had an E8400 overclocked to 4.05 GHz in a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P and "everyone" on Overclock.net wanted to see me get one of the new Core i5 or i7 CPUs when they came out. At the time, my only feeling was that it didn't seem worth it because my system was major overkill for me at the time (and it still would be).
When Sandy Bridge came out, a point was reached where a bunch of people convinced me to upgrade to it instead of simply upgrading to a Q9550 or a Q9650 (and overclocking it as high as possible). I felt that it was worth it because it sounded to me like Sandy Bridge is better than the first generation which made me want it even more.
When Ivy Bridge came out, I just looked the other way because it doesn't seem like a big enough performance increase to justify the cost and physical labor of upgrading. I'm even feeling the same about Haswell even though it's 2 generations after what I have, just like how Sandy Bridge was 2 generations after the Core2 series. Perhaps I'll upgrade when Broadwell comes out. It might be fun to have that big of an upgrade.
The next time I'd upgrade after Broadwell, I'll be getting an AMD CPU because it sounds to me like it's a guarantee that they'll continue making socketed CPUs long after Intel is done doing it. So Intel will probably lose a large amount of customers. Of course, we're probably the minority of their customers so they probably couldn't care less.
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