Bustamonte
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Back then it mattered. Now it doesn't.
And yet there are still morons who MUST buy the latest Geforce GTX 1080 XXXXXXX Black Ultra ZZZZZXXXX on launch day so they can play CS:GO or World of Warcrap at 300 FPS.
And yet there are still morons who MUST buy the latest Geforce GTX 1080 XXXXXXX Black Ultra ZZZZZXXXX on launch day so they can play CS:GO or World of Warcrap at 300 FPS.
"Founder's Editions" is where it's at in [Current Year]
https://www.techpowerup.com/222895/...edition-owners-complain-of-fan-revving-issues
I've lost any urge to upgrade PC... for what purpose should I do that? To play MGS5, Dragon's Dogma, Wolfenstein'14, D44M, Witcher 3... in none of these games there is a promise there's would be much better fun than with games that are currently available... it's not 1997/1999 when waiting for another Quake was waiting new best thing ever.
Just quoting myself from page 1, it was a bit more than 2 years like I thought, but I'm just putting together a new build for exactly said reasons (4K resolution and VR): http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...s-gtx-1080-thread.108060/page-14#post-4540737 I've only had a GTX 970 upgraded since then (since the 770 didn't have display connectors that supported 4K and was too weak for VR games), otherwise I still have a similar PC to back when I wrote that post which I built in like 2009.My first PC (after C64, Atari and the likes) was a Pentium 66Mhz, then an additional AMD K6-2 200Mhz with MMX! (which turned out slower than the Pentium), then an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (there might've been something I forgot before that) and a AMD Athlon XP 2800+
After that it was back to Intel with a Core2Duo E6600 and I still got the Core i7-950 Bloomfield CPU I bought some time in 2009.
My first graphics card was a GeForce256 I believe, I remember upgrading that to a GeForce 4 Ti for Doom 3 and a GeForce 6600GT for Neverwinter Nights 2, a GeForce 8800 GTX for Crysis.
When that went kaputt out of warranty I replaced it with a GeForce GTX 460 and recently because some games like Sleeping Dogs, Metro 2033 and similar ran shit on higher settings and because of the Oculus Rift I got a GeForce GTX 770.
Another recent acquisition was a Samsung SSD 840 Pro.
I kind of miss *having* to replace stuff to play some of the newest games every 2-3 years but I'm thinking another upgrade of CPU/GPU isn't that far away (1-2 years) for a 4K resolution display (3840x2160) and possibly higher res VR.
It's called ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC and pretty much needed to run games like Witcher 3, Fallout 4, GTA V, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Division etc. at 4K/60FPS, best in SLI.And yet there are still morons who MUST buy the latest Geforce GTX 1080 XXXXXXX Black Ultra ZZZZZXXXX on launch day so they can play CS:GO or World of Warcrap at 300 FPS.
That GPU died last year, RIP. Which means I had to buy a new graphics card. I was also tired of not having enough space on my SSD (this produced issues with swap space and games that insist on saving everything in the C:\User directory) and upgraded that one to a larger one. The old one is still usable though and will see some new life. The rest of the system is still the same as when I wrote that post in 2013.I only update if I have to. My 2006 system died at the beginning of 2012, and I replaced it with an i5-2500K with 16 GB of RAM, an SSD and a 2TB hard drive. The only thing that's still quite old is the graphics card, which I had bought during the later days of my former system, an ATI Radeon HD 5770. I sometimes think of replacing it with something more recent, but I always forget about it.
My first computer was a HD-less 8086 with 2 5 1/4" drives, and a greyscale EGA monitor. This was back in the late 80's, I played all the Sierra adventures on that box, and probably had the most fun ever.
Games have always more or less propelled all of my hardware upgrades since late 1993 - that's when I saw DOOM, and had a revelation. By then, my trusty 386DX couldn't run it properly, and I had no sound card. So I upgraded to a 486DX2 and got a Sound Blaster. Also, on a lesser note, Betrayal at Krondor and Ultima 8 (U8 ran like a dog on a 386).
This happened again in 1996, when Quake came about. 486 couldn't run Quake Test properly, so I got a Pentium 166, and played Quake to death. Shortly thereafter I had to get a Voodoo 1 to get GLQuake working, it was another revelation.
In 1998 I wanted to play Unreal, so I bought a Pentium 2/400, and upgraded my Voodoo 1 to a 8MB Voodoo 2.
So on and so forth. However, in more recent years (maybe 2006-now), I've become a jaded oldfag and don't really feel the need to upgrade anything for long stretches of time. There's a huge back catalogue of good games that I haven't played, and most of the new stuff coming out that's interesting doesn't require anything better than what I already have.
In the past 8 years I've made 2 reasonably big upgrades, one in 2008 from an Athlon 64 3.2/Geforce 6800GT to a C2D8400/ATI 4850 and one this year from that to an i5 3570k - this wasn't really needed, but I wanted to run Dota 2 at a constant 60fps, that game is really CPU bound. Also, emulation of newer consoles at full speed without caveats is a nice bonus.