I7 4790k longevity?

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How long will the i7 be able to run games well, don't care about ultra btw. And how long will it last for both school/college work and general home/office use?
Is the i7 a good processor in this regard and will it stand strong over time?
And yes, am overclocking, that why I got the K series cpu.
Would like to know your thoughts and opinions
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This is a very hard question to answer, but I would say you can roughly expect the CPU to stay relevant and fast for about up to five years for gaming, probably more with overclocking. Just look at the first generation i7's and even older Core 2 Duos like that guy mentioned. Some people are still using them to play new AAA titles fine. I'll definitely stay relevant longer than GPU cards due to the nature of gaming.

Even the slowest laptop Pentium can handle general use perfectly these days. I'm typing this response up on my crappy Dual-Core Pentium laptop from 2009 and it runs smoothly for this sort of thing, even while driving two displays (the laptop display and the external monitor). The system requirements of stuff like word...
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This is a very hard question to answer, but I would say you can roughly expect the CPU to stay relevant and fast for about up to five years for gaming, probably more with overclocking. Just look at the first generation i7's and even older Core 2 Duos like that guy mentioned. Some people are still using them to play new AAA titles fine. I'll definitely stay relevant longer than GPU cards due to the nature of gaming.

Even the slowest laptop Pentium can handle general use perfectly these days. I'm typing this response up on my crappy Dual-Core Pentium laptop from 2009 and it runs smoothly for this sort of thing, even while driving two displays (the laptop display and the external monitor). The system requirements of stuff like word processing is plateauing from what I can see (hey, what more features can you really add into a digital typewriter?). Expect probably 20 years with that i7 and beyond. But almost no one keeps a computer around that long, especially an enthusiast.
 
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Thanks. I also have a crappy 2009 pentium laptop: Inspiron 1750 with Pentoum T440 and 2GB. The performance sucks and it is a total pain in the backside with Windows 7. Maybe cos urs is better than mine, I dunno. Maybe it's the RAM.
 
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Oh really? I have the 15 inch model, the Inspiron 1545. It has a Pentium T4500 processor which is just about 100 MHz faster than yours, the T4400. But I did upgrade it to 4 GB of RAM two years ago. That's your problem. 2GB won't cut it these days. Google Chrome takes up a ton of RAM. 4GB is now like the functional minimum, and 8GB has become the standard offering in almost all laptop models.
 
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Thanks, that's why I am planning to build my own i7 desktop with 8GB of ram to increase my productivity level. My laptop just won't cut it. It acts like it wants to do its own thing and chokes itself when I only have a few tabs in chrome or IE 11. Probably due to the RAM like you mentioned
 
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I can testify to that. One of the desktops in my house has an AMD Sempron 140 (2.7 GHz) single core CPU (one of the cheapest CPUs they sell) and 2 GB of DDR2 RAM. Runs a version of Linux no problem with a good amount of windows and processes open on such little processing power. Linux excels at using very little RAM for the OS (like Windows did until Vista came around), only about 250 MB. With Windows 7 nowadays, it takes 1.3 GB just to run without anything open. Try using Linux.
 
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I'm still using a Core i5-750 without much trouble in recent games, and that's before the big jump we had when Sandy Bridge was released. You can normally expect 2-3 years out of new tech (as long as its mid- or high-end when you bought it), but the way things have been going it may be decent even longer than that.
 
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