intel i5 cpu

[LordChinChin]

So obviously games will only get more demanding over the next couple of years so. Will i be okay for gaming with an intel core i5 4690k, say for the next e years? Or will i need to upgrade to something better?

 

[TofuLion]

Not sure how long "e years" is but the 4690k is definitely more than enough for gaming now (unless you have some crazy gpu setup like gtx 980 sli) so is likely to be very effective for quite a while

 

[BadBoyGreek]

An i5 4690 should get you at least 3-5 good years of gaming. You're likely to upgrade your GPU before your CPU.

Unless you're running high-end multi-GPU setups, the 4690k will be more than fine in a single card or mid-end SLI / Crossfire setup. CPU generations don't scale in performance like they used to; before, you used to see a doubling of performance every 2 years or so, but it's not like that these days. It will be about 2-3 generations from the 4690 that you'll notice any kind of significant performance difference.

To give you some perspective, I used an i7-940 for gaming for almost 7 years, first with dual Radeon HD 4850s in Crossfire, then with dual Radeon 6950s and more recently with the dual R9 280x's that made it to my current rig, and I had no performance issues whatsoever with the 940. The only real reason I upgraded from the 940 to the 4790k was strictly because I got a smokin' deal on it