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I'm also at something similar; 2nd gen i7 (2600K) from 2012. I upgraded to Nvidia 1060, and have the original 16GB of DDR3. It's both amazing and disappointing how well the system is still managing.

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I have the same hardware, and I'm sitting here just looking for excuses to upgrade (of all reasons, for a new heatsink I was given) and I just can't bring myself to place the order because I just don't need it.

As you say, these i7s are still handling the load quite nicely.

I5-2500k at 4.6ghz on big air that I bought when it came out was running great with a GTX 1080. Upgrading to a Ryzen 7 1800x@4ghz was a marginal perf game (and ~0 FPS gain in most games). The m2 SSD from a SATA SSD seems like it helped the most.

Indeed, I'm still running an i5-2500K as my primary gaming machine (with a GTX 970) and upgrading is hard to justify. It doesn't even have USB3!

Slap a USB 3.0 card in the thing and keep running it. The state of the art hasn't advanced all that much since Sandy Bridge.

Still running a 2500K here too, paired with a GTX 1070. Absolutely no qualitative issues with any games I play. Interestingly though I do notice its age when programming - builds take noticeably longer when compared to my work laptop (XPS 13 w/ i7-7700). Could be due to the higher core count I guess (not sure what level of parallelism my builds exploit beyond the parallelism offered by Make).

I've got a i5-4670k and I was all set to upgrade my processor this year, but then I looked at the numbers and realized it would barely help what I use it for (coding and gaming). Made me very sad, as I just couldn't justify the upgrade. So now I've got it running a 4.5 GHz overclock to see if it'll give me a reason, and to make up the 10% performance in the meantime.

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