| Jizz_Beard_thePirate said: I guess its not so "Niche" after all LOL |
This
Its funny people always said PC is dying but when all new hardware released in the last 4 years was shit that was"over priced" and suffered from the artificially slowed down technology evolution it just would have been a waste of money. Games were held back by antiquated console technology so noone had a reason to buy new hardware. (other than people that always want to have the newest hardware no matter the cost)
I mean when your 2008 gaming PC can play modern games why buy new hardware in 2009-13? (I almost bought the I5 2500k but then thought "nah next year something better will come out" man how wrong I was... nothing happend since then. And even reasonably priced GPUs get a small horse power increase these days compared to pre 2009.
The last reason gamers had to upgrade was Crysis in 2007 and thats 7 years ago.
Now thanks to PS4 and XBO people finally have a reason to upgrade but the problem is it wont last long since even a 2012 gaming PC can compete with PS4 and XBO in terms of power.
I will also upgrade my 2008/9 PC in 2015/16. Was going to upgrade this year but nothing changed on the hardware front since PS4 and XBO lack games.
So I bought preowned 2009 PC for 100€. It has an i5 750 that I oced to 4ghz it will do the job and the system allows me to play everythning I tested at 1080p on HIGH/Ultra with 50-60fps. Be it sleeping Dogs or Skyrim or TombRaider I just cant turn on AA (I can with UnrealEngine3 games tho) and shadows are on medium and TombRaiders TressFX kills my system but other than that I am happy.
