- Ω - Posted July 28 Report Share Posted July 28 Back in the early days of computing, you were lucky if your computer was not out-of-date within six months. A few years later in the PC era, 18 months could get you along before needing to upgrade video, RAM, storage space and the like. Later PC's could get you out to 4 or 5 unless your were that so-called "power user". It seems these days if you buy a high end computer it's possible to go five to seven years. What do you guys think? DegasElite 1 Quote <<< My YouTube Page >>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 28 Report Share Posted July 28 Gaming still drives upgrades. If you don't play the most modern PC games, a decent quality PC can last a decade or more. DegasElite and - Ω - 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossBow Posted July 28 Report Share Posted July 28 (edited) 17 hours ago, RickR said: Gaming still drives upgrades. If you don't play the most modern PC games, a decent quality PC can last a decade or more. Exactly! I last upgraded everything in my setup back in summer of 2018. It is still up to the task of what I need it to do and even still play some of the modern games well, provided I try not to play at max graphical settings at 4k and be a bit more reasonable with high settings at 1440P. Edited July 29 by CrossBow RickR and - Ω - 2 Quote See what I'm up to over at the Ivory Tower Collections: http://www.youtube.com/ivorytowercollections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 28 Report Share Posted July 28 Yeah, I upgraded mine recently in a very modest way. AMD Ryzen 7, 6 cores, 12 threads. And a new video card. The goal being able to play anything at 1080p. No problem at all. I'm happy. And it was not expensive at all. - Ω - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossBow Posted July 29 Report Share Posted July 29 14 hours ago, RickR said: Yeah, I upgraded mine recently in a very modest way. AMD Ryzen 7, 6 cores, 12 threads. And a new video card. The goal being able to play anything at 1080p. No problem at all. I'm happy. And it was not expensive at all. Mine wasn't so modest in 2018. i7 9700K clock locked at 4.9Ghz with 32GB 2600Mhz DDR4 RAM, RTX 2070 Super (Clocked at 2080 speeds). So again it was great and nearly top of the line when I built it but it was just a few short months later that the 10th gen and then like 6 months after that..the 11th gen and here we are in 13th gen now. So it still scales up pretty quickly and we now have 4000 series RTX cards. But I just cannot bring myself to spend that kind of money when I don't even play games that really need that kind of power anyway on my PC these days. Most modern game I've purchased to play recently was Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. But I have to run it at high setting at 1440P with a few more tweaks to keep it at 60FPS. So yeah as long as I temper my expectations, it still games well enough for me. RickR and - Ω - 2 Quote See what I'm up to over at the Ivory Tower Collections: http://www.youtube.com/ivorytowercollections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- Ω - Posted July 29 Author Report Share Posted July 29 7 hours ago, CrossBow said: Mine wasn't so modest in 2018. i7 9700K clock locked at 4.9Ghz with 32GB 2600Mhz DDR4 RAM, RTX 2070 Super (Clocked at 2080 speeds). So again it was great and nearly top of the line when I built it but it was just a few short months later that the 10th gen and then like 6 months after that..the 11th gen and here we are in 13th gen now. Yeah, yours is more up-to-date than mine. I'm only running an i7 8700 (four cores 12 threads) at 3.2 GHz with 32GB or RAM with an Nvidia GTX 1060 with only 6GB of memory. It seems to be holding its own for what I use it for, I cannot remember how old it is now, I would imagine 3 or 4 years by now. RickR 1 Quote <<< My YouTube Page >>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 29 Report Share Posted July 29 5 minutes ago, - Ω - said: Yeah, yours is more up-to-date than mine. I'm only running an i7 8700 (four cores 12 threads) at 3.2 GHz with 32GB or RAM with an Nvidia GTX 1060 with only 6GB of memory. It seems to be holding its own for what I use it for, I cannot remember how old it is now, I would imagine 3 or 4 years by now. That sounds like a perfectly good, still high-end, system to me. 1080p gaming will work on yours too, no problem. The computer I replaced was an i7-7700k, and I would have kept it. It just wore out and started overheating. My new AMD system (I just got motherboard and CPU and took the memory, case, everything else from the old system) is a bit faster in games, but otherwise it seems identical in performance to the old one to me. - Ω - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- Ω - Posted July 30 Author Report Share Posted July 30 Yeah, I'm perfectly happy with 1080P native resolution on my dual monitor computer. Both my camera and camcorder both are 1080P (in video mode), as are my TV's. It's good enough for me. To me 4K only equals larger file sizes, longer upload times, and multiple expensive upgrades... no thanks. Quote <<< My YouTube Page >>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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