I just purchased an RTX

[Pemalite]

JRPGfan said:

Pemalite said:

Honestly, for most people... There is very little reason to step up beyond the mid-range anyway.
You are better off simply upgrading a little more often in the long term.

I don't buy high-end GPU's anymore, I invest big in my CPU, Ram, Motherboard and other components instead... Which ultimately last longer. - GPU prices are just crap to warrant buying high-end anymore.

If POE 2 is more demanding than the first game... I might have a reason to upgrade.
Your thinking is very much so inline with my own.  Like ff14 and POE, are the majority of my playtime, not exactly super demanding games.

Im thinking if I have to do a upg again, this time I wont go cheap on CPU/Ram, but instead get something that'll then last.

I mean... I have a Ryzen 5950X and 128GB of DDR4 3600Mhz Ram... Paired with a piddly Radeon 6600XT powering a 32", 144hz, 1440P panel and it does fine.
I'll upgrade to the 8600XT when it drops, but honestly I am in no rush unless the 7900GRE drops to a lower price point.

See what happens during the financial year sale season I guess...

Otherwise I will probably upgrade to the Ryzen 9950X and 128GB of DDR5 before I upgrade the GPU again.

To be fair I am also not gaming as much as I used to and the games I do play tend to be older titles, but I do a ton of work doing transcoding, encoding, 3D modelling for the 3D printer, compiling code, so I can use all the RAM and CPU I can get.