[SOLVED] How long?

[packersfan036]

How long do you think intel 10th gen cpu's will be good for before i must upgrade? i mostly game and do basic stuff.

 

[USAFRet]

How long do you think intel 10th gen cpu's will be good for before i must upgrade? i mostly game and do basic stuff.

A year. A decade.

Impossible to tell...everyone's use case is different.

 

[Dj0gany]

I agreee with @USAFRet, longevity matters heavily on the usage.
You can do basic browsing on a 15+ year old pentium, but it will struggle with almost any sort of heavier load, like gaming.
For your gaming/ basic usage?
Depends on the games, but you could squezze 4-5 years from a i5 10400 without any problems.
6 cores and 12 threads will have no problems running cpu demanding games for a long time.
Up that to a 8 core 16 thread i7 10700, and you would probably get 7-8 years out of it, similarly to how people still use almost decade old i7's today ( i7 2600K/3770K were realeased almost 10 years ago).
Out of a i9?
It will game similarly to the i7 i mentioned above, but it being a 10 core 20 thread cpu, you are probably looking at 10 years of usage.
Dont take what i said way to seriously, nobody knows what future games will demand, im just speaking from experience.

 

[geofelt]

In a week, a 10th gen will be outdated.
That does not mean it will not do the job.
Buying new, current gen is normally a better price performer.
Otherwise why would newer gen ever be made?
Gaming is largely dependent on the graphics card and not so much on the cpu.
Good luck finding a gaming card at any price today, let alone at <2x msrp.
If buying new, would look at 11th gen intel intel with integrated graphics.
I think the included HD750 graphics on the i5-10500 and better processors will be a decent for all but fast action gaming.