| mZuzek said: In the last 7 days I had only turned on my computer once, to watch the Liverpool game on Sunday, and well, let's just say I spent 2 hours spinning the god damn fan, and hurting my hand in the process. At the end it was at 87°C. Big yikes. The new GPU's fans only ever spin when gaming, which is great for both durability and noise reduction, and with the Corsair PSU as well, the whole thing just got a lot quieter. That said, it has gotten me thinking into the next upgrades already - CPU and memory -, because those are now lagging behind the GPU quite dramatically. But, I don't have money for those now, so, let's postpone that discussion. |
87'C is typically not a dangerous temperature for a GPU.
Fans have come a long way... Especially on mid-range hardware... That used to be the first cut-back manufacturers would make to save a buck, it's likely driven by mid-range GPU's having higher TDP's these days too.
Can't recommend Corsair Power Supplies highly enough, especially the HX range... I have a Corsair HX 620 in another rig... It's 12 years old at this point (7 year warranty) and still solid as a rock. It's paid for itself.
What CPU and Memory configuration do you have?
| haxxiy said: Will the next generation really make a difference regarding CPU requirements, though? I've seen this idea vented out a lot. I decided to check if something like this happened in the 6th to 7th generation jump. The CPU jump was even larger than the one we'll get next year with the new consoles. So I looked at the minimum and recommended CPUs for games released between 2004 and 2010. The result was... surprisingly linear? Most games ran just fine in one or two threads all the way to 2009 or 2010 (and won't even run in more than two threads really). That's between 3 to 5 years after the release of the PS3/X360. It was only the beginning of this decade that quad cores started to appear as the recommended spec. The gap is large enough to sever any causal link between the 7th generation consoles and CPU specs. In fact, it seems RAM requirements grew the fastest on PC during the PS3/X360 era, exactly where the two consoles were somewhat poor. |
I am expecting a sizable jump in CPU requirements for next gen.
The reason why CPU has essentially stagnated for the last decade or so is fairly simple... The PC got more efficient with the push towards Vulkan and Direct X 12... Which has meant that my 12 year old spare C2Q rig can still play many of the latest games.
The jump in RAM might be smaller next gen though.
mZuzek said:
I can imagine, yeah. Noise is one of the things I care about most when it comes to PC stuff, and I was already a little bothered by my GPU's fan at constant 30-40% speed (that is, when it did work). Personally, though, I am happy about being forced to upgrade, because I feel like otherwise I'd never get it done. I'm having a bit of a rough time deciding on CPUs as well, as it is probably the most important thing on the computer (so I want a really good one), and there's a lot of stuff I don't understand. That said, I do think I'm going AMD there, because the Ryzen CPUs seemingly are a much better value. |
That Radeon 5850 had a long ass life though to be fair. Even today it could probably still run games at low settings.
Core counts... I wouldn't settle for anything less than 8-cores going forwards, especially if you want longevity... You don't upgrade the CPU/Motherboard as often as the GPU, so you might as well settle for a good one, those who bought up Nahelem or Sandy Bridge 6-core CPU's definitely had a rig with a long shelf life that are still capable even today.
I would wait for Intel 10nm or AMD's 7nm chips to enter the market before making a move, at the very least it will drop the price of current hardware.
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