With my next PC build I'm planning to go all out and buy the next Ryzen 9.
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Your worst attempts at PC future-proofing
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With my next PC build I'm planning to go all out and buy the next Ryzen 9.
I am going to win this one! I bought a Amstrad Mega PC. A console and PC in one. It did neither particularly well and could not be upgraded.
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You future proof by buying cheap stuff and saving money for future cheap stuff that beats the expensive stuff you would've got.
I guess this 8700k won't last as long as I was hoping, but 5ghz Intel was necessary for HFR and a few emulators at the time.
For the price of a 2080 Ti i'll have had a used 1080ti for about a year + an upgrade to a cheaper,faster, upgraded 2080ti level GPU.
I guess this 8700k won't last as long as I was hoping, but 5ghz Intel was necessary for HFR and a few emulators at the time.
For the price of a 2080 Ti i'll have had a used 1080ti for about a year + an upgrade to a cheaper,faster, upgraded 2080ti level GPU.
Wasted my birthday money on a zip drive (parallel port version) because I thought it would replace floppies. I never even really used it.
2080 Super outside of RTX feels like a sidegrade to the Titan xp, but it's meant to be a stopgap for Ampere.
If you are only using it for gaming Ryzen 9 is overkill as maybe couple games will utilize more than 8 cores 16 threads. so a 12-16 core /24-32 thread CPU would provide barely any additional benefit(Ie maybe 5-10 frames max) just something of note so you do not spend money unnecessarily.
I know it's overkill, but that's really what I want this time.
Easy heuristic: if you're buying components around new console release either buy something from same generation (in this case Zen 2 + RDNA2) or the gen after. I bet that RDNA2/Ampere GPUs (at least the high end stuff) will work wonderfully this entire gen, while Turing will age quicker than raw performance figures indicate. Especially since it was paradigm shift with AI/RTRT and 1st gen stuff usually doesn't age well.
My z170 motherboard went out this March. I thought about replacing it with Z390, but didnt want to fork out cash for a new CPU (had a i56600k). Bought a refurbished z170. WIth my 2070, I realized I was being bottlenecked by my CPU, so last week, I bought a z390 and a i59600k and replaced my 2666 ddr4 with 3200ddr4. I know Im going to regret all this in 6 months lol.
Anyone want to buy my z170, i56600k, and corsair 2666 DDR4 combo lol
Anyone want to buy my z170, i56600k, and corsair 2666 DDR4 combo lol
Not so much that i bought it because future proofing but my first own PC went from good to ancient like in a year. it was summer of 2006 and I build PC with Athlon 64 3500+ (single core), 1Gb of RAM and Geforce 7900 GT as a GPU. Had to upgrade all parts like in a year lol.
i agree with Turing except the 2080S ,2080TI and RTX Titan will obviously age well enough for console equivalency. 2080 or lower will likely age out in 2-3 years.
It literally stopped working after the announcement of the 30 series.
I just bought a 3900x. Quite possibly in a couple of years I'll be posting about that in this thread. Intel has more FPS for games right now and quite possibly right up until my current build gets a completely new motherboard. but just maybe (he says in his head) games will start leveraging more threads and start to benefit from more cores. But probably not
Are they that bad? I had a similar experience but just felt like I bought in at the wrong time (end of each socket's life). 3570k then no real upgrade path, and then replaced with a z170 board and a 6700k. that's lasted me really well and honestly I don't really need to upgrade right now, but I want a 3080 and that needs a new PSU and likely a new PC case which then snowballed..
I bought a 64gb SSD in 2013, I think? Let's just say SSDs were expensive back then so this was a good deal. Then prices fell two years later.
Sadly not as you might get the odd duck out like the new total war game but thats the only game this gen that performed more than 1 or 2 fps better. The sole reason being is games are developed for consoles too and they will target the cores they use and even then its not 1:1 as theh have different overhead allocations for streaming and the OS so a 6-8 core cpu is ideal as any more won't do much for games and less will likely not have enough horse power in a few years.
1st Place: In 2006 I bought the 7800GT 256MB for $295. This was the most I had spent on any computer part ever. I replaced it 2 years later with an 8800GT for $212, which I still consider my best GPU purchase, followed closely by my GTX 1070..
2nd Place: I wasn't going topend, but I bought a $150 GTX 460 768MB and it was terrible. Replaced it 2 years later with a $250 Radeon 7870XT 2GB. The 7870 was a good card and the only game that gave me VRAM problems was Arkham Knight.
Despite many reassurances that 8GB on the 3070 is fine, especially with DLSS and and a target of 1440p, I still am a bit hesitant. My 1070 was the closest to launch I have ever bought a GPU and I waited for a few months, so I could get a decent AIB for $430. I figure if I wait the same amount of time, I can be a little more confident by then.
Nothing feels worse than spending a bunch of money on something, only to have it "replaced" in short order. Looking at Radeon VII and the GTX 2070 in particular. The 5700XT and the GTX 2070 Super cards came to soon and made the original 2070 seem like a stopgap. Radeon VII is even worse.
2nd Place: I wasn't going topend, but I bought a $150 GTX 460 768MB and it was terrible. Replaced it 2 years later with a $250 Radeon 7870XT 2GB. The 7870 was a good card and the only game that gave me VRAM problems was Arkham Knight.
Despite many reassurances that 8GB on the 3070 is fine, especially with DLSS and and a target of 1440p, I still am a bit hesitant. My 1070 was the closest to launch I have ever bought a GPU and I waited for a few months, so I could get a decent AIB for $430. I figure if I wait the same amount of time, I can be a little more confident by then.
Nothing feels worse than spending a bunch of money on something, only to have it "replaced" in short order. Looking at Radeon VII and the GTX 2070 in particular. The 5700XT and the GTX 2070 Super cards came to soon and made the original 2070 seem like a stopgap. Radeon VII is even worse.
I was on a tight budget when building my PC so I had to pick between 760 4GB and 770 2GB and went with the latter, and that worked out well. Wasn't really any game I had performance trouble with at 1080p at least. I do admit I never bothered to launch the copy of Arkham Knight I got for free after hearing about its port.
I bought a AMD A8-3870K APU at launch thinking I wouldn't need to get a GPU.
I ended up getting a GPU shortly after because the gaming performance on the APU was pretty bad. That made having an APU pointless and it wasn't that great of a CPU with no upgrade path.
I switched to an Intel 4670k once it released
I ended up getting a GPU shortly after because the gaming performance on the APU was pretty bad. That made having an APU pointless and it wasn't that great of a CPU with no upgrade path.
I switched to an Intel 4670k once it released
I always wondered why people were hyped for RTX 2000 series cards when it was CLEAR that the raytracing and the associated performance seemed to be underwhelming around launch time. I just could not understand the point of the hype (the fact that mostly everyone is an Nvidia fanboy?). I definitely felt vindicated skipping that entire generation. Just terrible, lol...
I uh...may have bought a 2060 Super back in May. It Code 43'd in June so I can't even say, "Well, at least I got a few months of fun out of it before they announced the 30-series." I know the writing has been on the wall even prior to May but I didn't expect these cards to be as giant of a leap as they are.
A couple of months ago I upgraded to an i7 9700 (10th gen wasn't available at the time) with 16GB of RAM + M.2 SSD - with my existing 1070.
The SSD is a godsend, and all in all its a huge improvement on my old i7 2600......but I'm slowly learning that the CPU will need to be upgraded again as it chugs on new games like Dual Universe for example. Also hearing that 32GB RAM is preferable nowadays. Gonna have to get a 3070 eventually. Oh, and a new monitor.
Sigh. It's all too much money. I'll probably get a PS5 first, then wait a few years and get a 9800k/9900k + 3070
The SSD is a godsend, and all in all its a huge improvement on my old i7 2600......but I'm slowly learning that the CPU will need to be upgraded again as it chugs on new games like Dual Universe for example. Also hearing that 32GB RAM is preferable nowadays. Gonna have to get a 3070 eventually. Oh, and a new monitor.
Sigh. It's all too much money. I'll probably get a PS5 first, then wait a few years and get a 9800k/9900k + 3070
>_<
Came to post about my opting for 2x 9800GT is SLI - micro-stutter city. NEVER AGAIN. Should've just got the GTX.
Lesson learned, single GPU for life.
Just bought a 5700 xt since I needed a modestly priced way to play future stuff, then see that the new nvidia card is about twice as good for like $100 more.
Bought a GTX 780 summer 2013. Less than 4 months later the 780 Ti arrived out of nowhere and NVIDIA cut the price on the 780. That was my first discrete gpu purchase...*sigh*. Replaced it with a Titan Black, which was also a questionable idea in retrospect, but I did 2000+ hrs worth of blender rendering on that thing.
In late 2015 I bought a 980 over a year after they came out and after the 980 Ti was out. That replaced a pair of 970's that I thankfully didn't lose any money on thanks to game code sales and the 970 lawsuit. I did get 2 years out of that 980 before I got my 1080 Ti.
In late 2015 I bought a 980 over a year after they came out and after the 980 Ti was out. That replaced a pair of 970's that I thankfully didn't lose any money on thanks to game code sales and the 970 lawsuit. I did get 2 years out of that 980 before I got my 1080 Ti.
My biggest regret is having a motherboard with an LGA1150 socket. I built the computer at the start of 2014, so not like there was much I could do at the time. 😂
I remember buying one of those super expensive Nvidia sandwich cards (SLI in one card). Effectively only half the vram on the card was usable... and not everything supported SLI... and the gains were not that great when they did support it... and SLI fucken sucks anyhow because of micro-stuttering.
I future proofed my PC in October 2018 with a 9900k and 2080 Ti and it's lasted me this long haha. I have 16gig of RAM and this hasn't been an issue until Flight Sim so I'm going to stick another 16gig in there when I upgrade the 2080 Ti in a couple of weeks.
Hi Henry, you were great in Tudors.
I heard "i7 is just for video rendering" SO MUCH.
I don't do it, I usually buy hardware further down the line at cheap prices and then I can play the games that came out before with all bells and whistles.
I'm not really bothered to play the game as soon as it is out. Except for crusader kings 3 and Victoria 3(when it's out, hopefully)
I'm not really bothered to play the game as soon as it is out. Except for crusader kings 3 and Victoria 3(when it's out, hopefully)
Ha ha. I think for a second I thought about buying a 2nd Nvidia card for dedicated Physx. I did my research and found out that it wasn't such a great idea.
Not a bad attempt per se, just unfortunate:
Built a PC with the good ol' Phenom II 965, and the mobo I bought initially wasn't exactly recommended for it (lower TDP), so I went back and asked for a replacement. Among the options was this revision of the Gigabyte 890GPA that was ready for the future release of Bulldozer, something that pushed me to pay a little extra for it.
Yes, Bulldozer.
No, I never bought a Bulldozer.
(Bulldozer 2 required new mobo, so couldn't even try and stretch it that far)
Built a PC with the good ol' Phenom II 965, and the mobo I bought initially wasn't exactly recommended for it (lower TDP), so I went back and asked for a replacement. Among the options was this revision of the Gigabyte 890GPA that was ready for the future release of Bulldozer, something that pushed me to pay a little extra for it.
Yes, Bulldozer.
No, I never bought a Bulldozer.
(Bulldozer 2 required new mobo, so couldn't even try and stretch it that far)
