Sandy Bridge is overrated. Sure it held up OK, but so many people would brag about still being on it almost 10 years later while benchmarks would tell them their games were greatly held back by CPU limitations. Ivy (PCIE3), Haswell (AVX2) also brought major improvements that helped with longevity that the SB holdouts tend to ignore. Lots of evolution happened almost on a yearly basis after SB, despite the 4c/8t stagnation, yet the SB fanbois would feel superior for almost a decade and use every chance to tell the rest of us. My point is just, SB was not as special as its fan club would have you think, and the users and fans of the other generations are not nearly as loud.