Sandy Bridge CPUs came out over five years ago. If you haven't updated in over five years, then you've nothing to complain about when HTC tries to keep their game competitive and raises the bar. I for one, applaud it. If you have updated in the past five years, then there shouldn't be a problem.
I'm only running an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb. Sounds fancy, but It really ain't all that.
Bought it on Ebay for around $80.00, two years ago... That's not going to put anyone in the poor-house, especially if they are a gamer.
So far, for me, AHIII-Beta is running pretty smoothly.
Keeping my fingers crossed...
Coogan