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Burning Typhoon on 10 March 2019
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Pemalite said:

Burning Typhoon said:

Why are you guys upgrading your PCs so much?

Because I can. And I love the smell of fresh, brand-new computer hardware first thing in the morning.

But whenever I do a complete overhaul of my system, the old parts gets donated to another rig to give them some more life, so it's not like they are going to waste.
Essentially, It's not that I need to upgrade so often, it's because I want to.

Burning Typhoon said:

You know what I did?  I built one PC.  My first, in 2016.  It let me capture my console game footage in higher quality just like I wanted, but I was unsatisfied with it in everything else.  It was a 4790k paired with an R9 390X.  Coming from a 390X, nothing made sense other than a 1080 ti, in 2017.  No other card was going to be enough of a leap forward to justify getting it. 980 ti was out of consideration.  So was the 1070, and even the 1080.  There was no card that I would consider.  1080 Ti was the only one at the time that I'd get.

The 390X is one of those GPU's that have/are going to stand the test of time... It helps a ton that it has a 512-bit memory bus as well so it's aged really well, it's certainly better than Polaris in overall capability... And they don't overclock to badly either.

There really isn't any need to replace a GPU every year unless you are doing some heavy/professional work these days... And 1080P is a low-end "easy" resolution for GPU's these days, negating the need to upgrade even more.

I was talking about Trumpstyle, who said the following, below...  PC can have cost advantages, right.  He was doing it the wrong way.

I don't play at 1080p.  I have a 4ktv which I rarely use for games, because it's a TV, with 17ms display lag.  I also have a 2560 x 1440p 165FPS monitor with 9ms display lag, and a 1080p monitor which I stopped using for games, that has a max refresh of 144 FPS.  An r9 390x would make my monitors a waste of money, but I did upgrade all my monitors after i got my 1080ti anyway.

I don't play at 1080p, and even when i did, it was beyond 60fps.  Which brings me back to what I said, anything less than a 1080 ti, and I knew for certain I wouldn't be satisfied.  Especially with all the GPU comparison sites telling me upgrading to anything less would be pointless.

The card did what I wanted.  However now I want even more power.  But there's nothing on the market I'm willing to upgrade to just yet. 

Trumpstyle said:
m0ney said:

Did you pair it with a Pentium D or something?

1070 gives the same performance as Xbox One X, the most powerful console to date.

I have a intel i5-4670k, don't overclock anything as it's energy-inefficient. Dude I had geforce 760 and could play 1900x1200 with no problems, than I got geforce 970 for 1440p it worked somewhat with tweaking graphics settings. I bought the 1070 card thinking this would be overkill for 1440p but already with the Watch dogs 2 release the card could not do 1440p and forced me to play with Checkerboard rendering with high settings, but even then I had frame-rate issues.

So around dec 2016 I was planning to buy intel i7-7700k but thought why I'm spending money on hardware when I can just get PS4 pro and never have to buy hardware again and it worked out great.

Pc-gaming probably better now as you have freesync/g-sync monitors, before this u had to get an average 70fps with v-sync enable to have a good gaming experience. Now 50-60 average fps should be enough with those new monitors.