The jumps were a lot larger and more significant back then, we're getting to that plateau where home user performance can't be tangibly improved I think (day-to-day use I mean, for gaming there's obviously huge performance gains to be had with 4K max settings, raytracing, etc).

Compare the jump from a 100Mhz system with 8MB RAM to when the Ghz barrier was broken, etc, its huge. Now we're talking the same kind of clock speeds but just some more cores and architectural improvements. The biggest change is bus speeds and bandwidths for data transfer but even then there's a limit to how quickly things can feel generally.

I'm not sure tbh but I have my doubts, I mean I'm making a leap from 10 year old architecture which doesn't actually feel sluggish most of the time, its mainly wait times for things to process like zipping/unzipping, loading/data transfers. The difference in the new rig is that things feel super snappy, almost instantaneous so far whatever I'm doing though I've not pushed it yet, but your rig is much newer so I think unless you find yourself thinking "Come on" in your head more often than not, its probably not worth it yet, especially if you already have NVMe and I'm assuming thats DDR4 RAM. If the 1080ti is still doing you fine for games, there's little reason to upgrade that either.

On paper the difference between your CPU and the one I've got now is huge, but I wonder if that really translates into a meaningful performance feel:
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-13600K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X/4134vs3916

One other thing to consider, a lot of things are looking to be coming down in price more rapidly now supply chain and chip production issues are being resolved post-COVID shenanigans, SSDs, memory, etc are all dropping in price. I'd probably wait until at least the end of the year like Eagle is doing before thinking about it again

yeah I'm thinking the same... I'm not sure why but I'm itching to upgrade

tbh I was running an i5-2500k + ssd before this and I hardly noticed the upgrade

back in the days when new chips were out all the time and there was a decent (on paper) performance boost I used to upgrade all the time... and hardly noticed it then

I still remember the jump going from a spinning disk to an ssd and crave that again lol :-o

I always forget that Novatech is just down the road from me too, so I didn't even consider it! Palicomp really did a good enough job, not as much attention to detail as if you DIY but they did do some cable routing, I could customise the parts I wanted and such. I didn't have to install Windows or anything like that either, so in terms of time saved I feel quids in, as I just don't have the time or inclination for a self-build with the kids taking up time (and actually not even some decent free worktop space to do so either at the moment).

I'm not sure tbh but I have my doubts, I mean I'm making a leap from 10 year old architecture which doesn't actually feel sluggish most of the time, its mainly wait times for things to process like zipping/unzipping, loading/data transfers. The difference in the new rig is that things feel super snappy, almost instantaneous so far whatever I'm doing though I've not pushed it yet, but your rig is much newer so I think unless you find yourself thinking "Come on" in your head more often than not, its probably not worth it yet, especially if you already have NVMe and I'm assuming thats DDR4 RAM. If the 1080ti is still doing you fine for games, there's little reason to upgrade that either.

On paper the difference between your CPU and the one I've got now is huge, but I wonder if that really translates into a meaningful performance feel:
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-13600K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X/4134vs3916

One other thing to consider, a lot of things are looking to be coming down in price more rapidly now supply chain and chip production issues are being resolved post-COVID shenanigans, SSDs, memory, etc are all dropping in price. I'd probably wait until at least the end of the year like Eagle is doing before thinking about it again

I've taken a clone of the site now, which is running fine, over the coming days I will try upgrading that clone to the latest PHP and SMF versions to see what, if anything, breaks.