Heres the deal if you keep waiting for the latest and greatest, you will wait forever. Because refreshes happen yearly. At some point you just gotta put on the big boy undies and make a decision. Im still using an i5 3570K. For the most part it does well for it age. I bought this CPU and stuff about a month before Broadwell was released. Because I wanted to build at the time. Keep in mind, that CPU's tend to age pretty well. Its GPU's that tend to need to be upgraded. Maybe you need to upgrade RAM at some point. So when you plan a build, you think about those upgrades. In terms of, Im buying X motherboard and it supports X amount of RAM, but Im only buying Y amount of ram.
If you want to future proof, think about upgrades you might do in the future and make sure your machine can support those upgrades. Plus remember, Intel has not done that much between each gen of CPU's, which is why I havent upgraded yet. Most likely what ever build you do, will last you 3 to 5 years for the most part. I built mine in 2013, the only upgrade I have done is added 8 more gigs of ram. Besides that, Im still using everything else I originally got.
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