How often do you upgrade your platform?

[spyder]

Example: I am currently on Devil's Canyon LGA 1150 (i5-4690k), May or may not upgrade to Skylake to take advantage of DDR3/4 or possibly wait for the version after that. 

[Minzo]

Haha I bought a computer in '11 and I bought one a few weeks ago.
 

 

And I upgraded to 4690k.

 

[Syntaxvgm]

I have a gtx 970 3.5GB and I'm still on a sandy i7. Working fine for me, I feel the squeeze doing VMs and other stuff, not gaming really. 

[Wauthar]

Still going strong on Z68 Sandy Bridge and I don't feel any need to upgrade any time soon.

[ExSangu]

When I finally finish my pc I'll hopefully use if for about 4/5 years. I used to play for years on a PC with an athlon 64 2400+ and a Radeon HD4670 and the only thing I upgraded was the ram (from 1 to 4 gb)

[Lord Sparklebottom]

I'm still running my 3570k on my beloved Sabertooth Z77, paired with a 660ti. The CPU still holds up, but the GPU soon needs an upgrade, but it'll work until the next Nvidia refresh comes around

[msvelev]

When I buy a PC I try to max everything at the moment at 60 ultra. Then in the next couple of years I'm forced to lower the settings to a mix of high and medium, and after that -> new GPU.

So a whole new platform comes even one step after that. I'd say at least 5 years can be expected of a given chipset.

[spyder]

Still going strong on Z68 Sandy Bridge and I don't feel any need to upgrade any time soon.

If Sandy bridge appears to be that strong then I may just stay on my current platform for a good couple years and just upgrade the GPU to ensure I'm on the competitive edge. 

[Speakerator]

Still also on sandy bridge. Unfortunately got a locked 2500 non-k (one of those brain-afk moments^^), boosts to 3.4 / 4Ghz (all / one core). I tend to wait as long as possible before upgrading, my former CPU was a pentium 4 clocked at 4.1 GHz and I currently see no reason why I should be burning for Skylake. The 2500 is still going strong and grafics-wise I just retired my 6870 for a 970 since I also got a 1440p monitor. 

[StainlessSR]

Ivy Bridge I5 2500k(4.2GHz) on second Vid card need to upgrade card again (currently 650ti boost) cpu and 8GB ram holding strong!

[runit3]

Once every five years with a new platform, unless something really nice comes along....like Intel 750 NVMe SSD's O_O

[typographie]

Still on P55 here, making this PC over 5 years old. I'll upgrade eventually, probably to Skylake.

[Jade]

I'll probably upgrade when Intel has consumer line 6core CPUs. (re: not x99)

[W-Junk]

I'm still rocking a 2500K @4.7Ghz on the z68 platform. It does all i want it to do, but i was fairly close to grabbing a x99 - 5820k when that was released.

[-iSynthesis]

My pc before this one was with an athlon 7750be. Sooo... about 5 years....