Nothing very compelling to upgrade to from either Intel or AMD?

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Is it just me or are the latest offering from Intel and AMD really bland? Neither have released must have processors lately.

There isn't the same urgency to upgrade to Core i7/i5 (Haswell) from older processors like there were to the Core 2 (Core), to the Phenom II (K8), or to the original Core i7/i5 (Nehalem).

I still have the original Nehalem based Core i7 processor and neither Intel or AMD has released anything new that would make me rush out to buy.
 
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The past few years have been quite stagnant in terms of CPU performance. A big part of this is due to Intel switching most of its R&D efforts to power efficiency and improving their integrated graphics to make their chips more appealing for low powered laptops and tablets, as that is what most users are buying now. It also doesn't help that AMD fell flat on their face with Bulldozer, released an improved version of the arch with Piledriver that at least didn't get outperformed by Phenom IIs, and then basically gave up on the high end market and now make low powered APUs for laptops and low end desktop systems. As such, Intel doesn't have much reason to make any major improvements to their CPUs performance wise, as AMD is no longer...
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The past few years have been quite stagnant in terms of CPU performance. A big part of this is due to Intel switching most of its R&D efforts to power efficiency and improving their integrated graphics to make their chips more appealing for low powered laptops and tablets, as that is what most users are buying now. It also doesn't help that AMD fell flat on their face with Bulldozer, released an improved version of the arch with Piledriver that at least didn't get outperformed by Phenom IIs, and then basically gave up on the high end market and now make low powered APUs for laptops and low end desktop systems. As such, Intel doesn't have much reason to make any major improvements to their CPUs performance wise, as AMD is no longer competing in the high performance space.

We are also starting to hit the point where the laws of physics start to interfere with CPU performance gains, we don't have much further until we can't shrink the die anymore, and at that point there isn't much to be done to improve performance aside from adding more cores and hoping software developers write their programs to take advantage of that.

I'm in a similar position to you as I have a first gen Core i5 and don't have a big reason to upgrade right now unless I wanted some newer chipset features like 6Gbps SATA or native USB 3.0 support. I'm probably going to sit on my current system until Skylake hits and we start to see mainstream DDR4, and maybe some mainstream 6 core CPUs from Intel (hopefully)
 
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I would think that with Intel moving so slowly, AMD would be more compel to compete in the high end.

If AMD right now gets started with a new microarchitecture that is design to have high IPC, lower TDP, and lower lock speed, it might have something that compete in the same league as Intel has, in a three years time.

I am probably going to stay with my current system until motherboard dies (and if I can't find a replacement for a cheap price) unless Intel releases, like you said, mainstream 6 core processors. With Intel dragging its feet, I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
 
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