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With new consoles looming, when are you upgrading your PC?
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One to two years into the generation. Until then most games will be cross-gen so they will run on my current hardware and PC mid-range hardware will have comfortably surpassed the capabilities of next-gen consoles.
Could be quite a while. I upgraded my CPU to a 3700X. My 1080 Ti is still running strong and there are 0 viable upgrades for it, I'm not paying $800 for a slight increase and definitely not paying $1200-1400 for the 2080 Ti that has the typical upgrade performance of a next generation x80 card (around 30% increase in speed on average) that should have cost about $700 instead of $1200. The useless Tensor cores are to blame since it increased the die size so much and the ray tracing cores are way too weak currently, especially when next generation games come out.
It's too late now since Nvidia has set their course but they should just dump the tensor cores and keep them only for their AI professional cards to reduce the costs of future cards / die size and instead focus on increasing actual performance of the GPU plus faster ray tracing cores.
It's too late now since Nvidia has set their course but they should just dump the tensor cores and keep them only for their AI professional cards to reduce the costs of future cards / die size and instead focus on increasing actual performance of the GPU plus faster ray tracing cores.
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My initial reaction to this thread was surprise at how many people seem to have just recently upgrade.
But, maybe this shouldn't surprise me. The end of the gen is probably when people start to feel the age of their consoles.
But, maybe this shouldn't surprise me. The end of the gen is probably when people start to feel the age of their consoles.
Do we expect this to change, when Intel releases their consumer GPU's in 2020?
The prices, especially from Nvidia, are actually insane.
March 2020, I think. One of the upsides to the PS5 and Xbox whatever is that hardware raytracing won't be locked to one vendor. I skipped out on the RTX cards in favor of the Radeon VII last year because their price/performance was poor, and the number of ray-traced games is still not great. Ahead of Cyberpunk 2077 I'm going to get an RTX 2080 Ti (Super, I hope!) and an LG 55C9, perhaps. I may get one of the new Ryzen CPUs to replace my 2700X but I don't feel that's as pressing.
I built my current rig in December 2018 with an 8700K/1070/16GB DDR4 and then this year did a side-grade of sorts to a 9700K/1080Ti/same RAM configuration. But I'm realizing now that my interest in PC gaming has waned so significantly that I can't be bothered any more. After spending all day at work on a PC, coming home to game on one is no longer attractive. Going to go XSX/PS5 next year and be done with this business. I don't play enough games any more anyways.
Probably the first hardware cycle after the next-gen console launch. So sometime in 2021.
I think now is a bad time/value proposition to upgrade when (supposedly) 8c/16t CPU's and """12TFLOP""" GPU's are gonna become commonplace in sub-$500 boxes. Surely the PC consumer market will have to respond accordingly -- AMD is making these parts happen!
I'll be playing catch-up with 2019's games anyway late in 2020 anyway lol.
I think now is a bad time/value proposition to upgrade when (supposedly) 8c/16t CPU's and """12TFLOP""" GPU's are gonna become commonplace in sub-$500 boxes. Surely the PC consumer market will have to respond accordingly -- AMD is making these parts happen!
I'll be playing catch-up with 2019's games anyway late in 2020 anyway lol.
I got Ryzen 2700X, 16GB 3200, RTX 2080Ti and Samsung Evo 970 a year ago.
I think I will be set the entire next generation. Maybe upgrade the CPU and GPU in 3 or 4 years to stay on top.
This makes no sense to me. I too spend my time at work at a PC. Then at home I use my PC from couch playing games on TV, watching movies and shows on TV, even writing this post from K400 on TV. There is zero issue and I get best of both worlds.
Though I will be getting PS5, only for exclusives, after they accumulate.
I think I will be set the entire next generation. Maybe upgrade the CPU and GPU in 3 or 4 years to stay on top.
This makes no sense to me. I too spend my time at work at a PC. Then at home I use my PC from couch playing games on TV, watching movies and shows on TV, even writing this post from K400 on TV. There is zero issue and I get best of both worlds.
Though I will be getting PS5, only for exclusives, after they accumulate.
I'll probably do an almost entire new build before march or at least before alyx launches. I have a 1080ti and 6700k, the 1080ti will probably last me a bit more at least until early 2021 if anything but my 6700k is due for a switch out especially for VR gaming. Get a cpu that'll last me a good chuck of next gen.
Was thinking about doing it 2020 but I'll probably get the new Xbox in 2020 and then upgrade my pc which is still nice a year or so after and just do pretty much a new PC from scratch outside of storage and case
Considering the cards that existed at the launch of the current consoles, I'm going to wait until the second wave of GPUs arrive post console launches.
I want to make sure my next card is a good bit stronger then the consoles.
I want to make sure my next card is a good bit stronger then the consoles.
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You're all definitely starting to make me thing 2021 is the better option to take. Maybe I'll ride out my current hardware through 2020.
There's a good chance I'll pick up one of the new consoles at launch anyway.
There's a good chance I'll pick up one of the new consoles at launch anyway.
Im using a 1080gtx and a i7 9700, I didnt feel the 2000 RTX series was worth the price to upgrade to but I'm willing to go to a all AMD system or just a video card if the 3000 nvidia series is good.
that's where I'm at too, basically. I have a Xeon 1231 v3, 32 gb ddr3 Ram and a 1080TI. For the most part, the biggest upgrade to raw general performance would be to the CPU, which would mean changing the entirety of my MOBO set up to do so. Outside of something breaking, my PC is still heavily capable as it is so even if the greedy half of me would like to upgrade for upgrading's sake, I have literally no reason to at the moment.
Upgrading next week or next month
i5 4460, gtx 1070, 16GB to Ryzen 7 3700x, gtx 1070, Asus ROG STRIX X570-E , 16GB
I'll wait for the 3000 series to upgrade my GPU if needed.
i5 4460, gtx 1070, 16GB to Ryzen 7 3700x, gtx 1070, Asus ROG STRIX X570-E , 16GB
I'll wait for the 3000 series to upgrade my GPU if needed.
Yeah the prices are trash at the moment, the big issue is AMD is meeting Nvidia at their higher price points, i hope that doesn't continue.
Aye! It's an awkward transitional era, and not terribly consumer friendly era alas. I'll hope in unison re: AMD also :)
When I start having trouble running new releases
Built my PC over five years ago and it's still handling everything I care to play, so it's not on my mind right now.
Built my PC over five years ago and it's still handling everything I care to play, so it's not on my mind right now.
Just upgraded with a new MoBo, 32GBs of RAM, and an i9. Using the 2070 from my last computer. Will probably upgrade my card again in the next two or three years depending on how things and prices shake out.
I already purchased my pc parts and working on setting it up.
I did pick my cpu based on expectations of the future consoles being 8 core.
I did pick my cpu based on expectations of the future consoles being 8 core.
I want to see the state of streaming next gen before deciding if I want to invest in hardware.
The current-gen hardware, including the intel 9000 series and the RTX 2000 series feel like really bad investments at this point, so if I actually do buy hardware next gen it will be after the new CPU & GPUs are out.
I'm fully prepared to just skip hardware entirely though and rely on streaming for the foreseeable future.
The current-gen hardware, including the intel 9000 series and the RTX 2000 series feel like really bad investments at this point, so if I actually do buy hardware next gen it will be after the new CPU & GPUs are out.
I'm fully prepared to just skip hardware entirely though and rely on streaming for the foreseeable future.
No plans to upgrade my PC at the moment as I am not that fussed about AAA gaming as long as I can play stuff at. 1080/60 FPS as I don't really do much Multiplayer stuff.
Will see when next gen games come into play at that going to for at least 18 months then my rig will be 5 years old.
Currently running 6700k and a 2080 which I got as a free upgrade when my 1080 packed in early this year.
Will see when next gen games come into play at that going to for at least 18 months then my rig will be 5 years old.
Currently running 6700k and a 2080 which I got as a free upgrade when my 1080 packed in early this year.
Currently running a 6600K at 4GHz OC and a vanilla MSI 1070 Armor. Will probably get the best price-performance chip of the next Ryzen line next summer while also playing with OCing my GPU since I'm sure my CPU has been the greater bottleneck in my setup, then gonna upgrade to a 3070 (Ti/Super) the summer after to keep me rolling at 1080/144@Ultra after we start seeing super high end games on the next consoles. Will probably try to get a 1440/144 monitor around the same time as a gift so I'm not completely blowing my load on 1080p lol.
Looks like SFVI or MK12 might be your eventual bottlenecks.
I got an LG C9 and a new pc based on the specs for the two consoles? 2022 if Nvidia stops picking their nose and make proper good gpus, oh and when PC gets proper hdr implementation
Next year is the plan. My current PC is pretty long in the tooth. I am saving for it now, but I am holding off until the next years card are announced. If the new consoles are really 12 TF it doesn't make sense to pay 500 for a GPU now when it sounds like next year we are going to get some more powerful stuff.
