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Not sure about how long it'll physically last for good computing (my HP is 8 year old and still going strong). But you'll be good for gaming and multitasking for atleast 2-4 years w/ your current specs (GTX 760 included). You might upgrade to i7 4790 after that if games require extremely high single core performance and multi threading, but that'll be atleast 4 years down the road.

In case of GPU, if you like ultra gaming, then you'd need to upgrade in 2-3 years, if you're ok with medium-high, then its enough for 3-4 years. RAM is sufficient for atleast 4 years.

All in all, you'd need to upgrade CPU, RAM, GPU after 4 years, especially the GPU. All are my best guesses :)
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MeteorsRaining

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Not sure about how long it'll physically last for good computing (my HP is 8 year old and still going strong). But you'll be good for gaming and multitasking for atleast 2-4 years w/ your current specs (GTX 760 included). You might upgrade to i7 4790 after that if games require extremely high single core performance and multi threading, but that'll be atleast 4 years down the road.

In case of GPU, if you like ultra gaming, then you'd need to upgrade in 2-3 years, if you're ok with medium-high, then its enough for 3-4 years. RAM is sufficient for atleast 4 years.

All in all, you'd need to upgrade CPU, RAM, GPU after 4 years, especially the GPU. All are my best guesses :)
 
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that answers my question then again i had the gpu 9300ge for like 5 years lol but if games don't look worse when they get to low graphics then now a days medium i'll be fine for waiting till i can't even open the game for more then 30 fps
 
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Should be good for 4 years then. I still use my 4 year old HD 6750 on my 8 year old HP (though I don't game on it anymore, but did some gaming until recently) and have seen from medium-high (40-50 FPS) on BF3 to low-medium (30-40 FPS) on BF4. It was like the GTX 750 Ti or R9 270 of its time. So I guess you'll be ok with your GTX 760 for quite a while :)
 
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And yes 4790k will run on your MoBo after a BIOS update (if the manufacturer provides it).
 
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Ehm, the 4790 IS Haswell Refresh.
I think HP just doesn't want to support overclocking because of warranty issues, thus no K series CPUs are supported. They'll probably work just fine though.
 
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I meant the OCable Haswell-r, the 4790k.
 
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