anecdotally there seem to be a ton of people on this website still playing modern games on Ivy/Haswell even as the rest of the industry has been trying studiously to stop acknowledging them for a few years now (since Ivy/Haswell were barely improved on for 5 years, but have admittedly been leapfrogged since, if not for the baseline of last-gen consoles)… I do feel I’m being stubborn purely in terms of age, as mine has acquired similar creaks, but… it’s not like I’m not paying attention to what’s getting released… they’re still just failing to push me over the edge.
a 3700X seemed like it was enough after all, then a 5900X seemed like it was certainly enough, and here I am still