how long will my socket 1150 still be good for?

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hi everyone, my current build is a asus maximus 7 hero motherboard, i5 4690k cpu, 16gb of gskill 1600 MHz ddr3 ram, gtx 1060 6gb video card, Samsung 850 evo ssd drive, 1tb sshd hard drive. this system plays every game I throw at it no problem. I'm just wondering how long more will this pc still be good for before I should try to sell it. how much more effective use can I get out of it.
 
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Considering amd ryzen is now multithreaded and the next generation Intel chips are looking to follow suite(i5 supposed to be 6 cores, i7 6 core with hyperthreading, i3 rumored to be quad), I think in your situation I would try to save up for the i7 4790k and plan to overclock when you get it. Sell the i5 off. Not that the i5 is bad, but the i7 gives you hyperthreading, so 8 threads. If your primary use is gaming, then the i7 will hold up better than the i5, especially as games become more multithreaded. Good news is you can probably sell your i5 for decent money.
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Should be fine for a while, given the merely incremental improvements in processors since then, but given the unknowns of future technology and that how every person will have a slightly different subjective definition of effective use, it's an impossible question to give any kind of a real answer for. I can think of people I know that would be unhappy with this CPU now and people I know that would probably be fine with it for a decade.
 
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Considering amd ryzen is now multithreaded and the next generation Intel chips are looking to follow suite(i5 supposed to be 6 cores, i7 6 core with hyperthreading, i3 rumored to be quad), I think in your situation I would try to save up for the i7 4790k and plan to overclock when you get it. Sell the i5 off. Not that the i5 is bad, but the i7 gives you hyperthreading, so 8 threads. If your primary use is gaming, then the i7 will hold up better than the i5, especially as games become more multithreaded. Good news is you can probably sell your i5 for decent money.
 
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