10700K to 15th gen or 7800X3D (for gaming) will both be good upgrades.
I tend to upgrade when I “need”. 2600K —> 8700K because VR performance was getting weak and Battlefield V couldn’t maintain 60 fps on the OC 2600K. 8700K —> 9900K because Microcenter had a $249 sale on 9900K, figured why not. 9900K —> Ryzen 7 7700X because I wanted new platform features, and I was getting back into flight simulation in VR, and I knew that the 7800X3D would plug in and work great (and it did). The 7700X was a large upgrade from the 9900K in some other games though too — Apex Legends, for example.
Before the 2600K I always had a rule of ‘can I get 3x the performance out of the new chip? If yes, then upgrade’. That was easy in earlier days - but now 3X performance takes a really long time.
10700K to 15th gen or 7800X3D (for gaming) will both be good upgrades.
I tend to upgrade when I “need”. 2600K —> 8700K because VR performance was getting weak and Battlefield V couldn’t maintain 60 fps on the OC 2600K. 8700K —> 9900K because Microcenter had a $249 sale on 9900K, figured why not. 9900K —> Ryzen 7 7700X because I wanted new platform features, and I was getting back into flight simulation in VR, and I knew that the 7800X3D would plug in and work great (and it did). The 7700X was a large upgrade from the 9900K in some other games though too — Apex Legends, for example.
Before the 2600K I always had a rule of ‘can I get 3x the performance out of the new chip? If yes, then upgrade’. That was easy in earlier days - but now 3X performance takes a really long time.