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I'm starting to realize how pointless, upgrading your computer is. (gaming too)

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Vic Vega said:
I built this system going on two years ago. I play BF3 at 1920x1200, maxed out, no slowdown, couldn't be happier.

I'll probably have this system through 2014 or 2015, by that time there should be an all in one device that offer 5x the performance and costs $500.

I doubt I'll ever build another PC and this is after building PCs since the early '90s.
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your playing BF3 maxed out at 1200p on a HD5770?

*Edit I see later in the thread you are using 5850 Xfire. Might be easier to just list your specs so people don't have to go searching for it in a thread just an idea 🙂
 
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When I became a working professional my PC gaming dropped big time. Now days I try to build efficient, quiet machines. It takes some of the fun out of building computers but saves you a lot of money, especially when you don't need to buy a video card.
 
I agree with you guys on quiet I actually have two 120mm fans on my CPU hsf, two 140mm on the top of my case 120mm fan exhaust, 140 front intake and 120mm side intake all controlled by a manual fan controller and its very quiet.
 
The only thing that is demanding in the gaming world now is multi-monitor. The highest end GPUs are overkill for anything but 1440p and high end SLI is for multi monitor. The GTX 690 is overkill for 1440p but is perfect for multi-monitor.

What really needs to happen is more ultra high resolution monitors and cheaper 1440p monitors. We have been stuck at 1080p for awhile and most games are no challenge for modern GPUs at that resolution.

I can run most games very well at 1080p and my GPU is three years old!

Gaming and CPUs is even more of a joke. I am not CPU limited in any major capacity. Most games won't even use all four cores. Games end up maxing out my GPU and they can't stress my CPU very much. Ivy bridge would not give me much of a boost.
 
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I agree with the OP to an extent, but I also agree with the other folks that way it really all depends. It depends what you use the computer for. Some people can utilize the faster/newer hardware for certain games, applications, virtualization, etc.
 
Medikit said:
When I became a working professional my PC gaming dropped big time. Now days I try to build efficient, quiet machines. It takes some of the fun out of building computers but saves you a lot of money, especially when you don't need to buy a video card.
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Not really im quiet fanattic and my wc set cost $460plus new gpu block every gen..however only fans are 4 @ 700rom on rads..eg ..silent
 
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I haven't had to upgrade my machine since I built it which was years ago. I only swapped the video card out a few times to keep current on that front. Now I just added an SSD and I don't know that I need an upgrade for quite some time still other than perhaps video card later on.
 
Makaveli said:
Larry you really should change the title to add something about gaming in it.
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Will do.

if you still live at home with your parents then knock yourself out you don't really have any real bills to pay yet.
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Heh. Nope, on my own, and on a limited income to boot. However, I have been spending nearly all my spare money on computer parts. At some point, that's got to end.
 
Thinking more on this, there was a time where every few months a game came out that made me feel like my PC was slow so I had to figure out what to upgrade to run it. For the past few years though it's slowed down to a point where I don't feel I have to upgrade as often. I don't find that shaving a few seconds off a video encode entices me like it may some. Gaming is where I'm at, and other general computer tasks. I mostly blame consoles on the gaming side. Not in a bad way as I play console games too, but many games on PC don't really take advantage of the strengths of a good gaming PC due to the console having more potential sales and aren't as high performance. So you have a lower standard system requirement for most games. So for me...I can say the upgrade from what I'm running currently to say a z77 might be big for some usages, it doesn't necessarily demand my immediate attention. I'm sure this summer I'll upgrade anyway, this system is over 5 years old after all.

Anyway I can definitely see where someone might feel that at this point you don't need to upgrade much.
 
VirtualLarry said:
Will do.


Heh. Nope, on my own, and on a limited income to boot. However, I have been spending nearly all my spare money on computer parts. At some point, that's got to end.
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hehe that wasn't directed to you the home comment I mean just in general.

I was more referring to those that upgrade every 6 months or yearly basis. They generally aren't people that have careers they tend to be kids living at home with their parents who don't have any real responsibilities yet.

Obviously there are exceptions to this rule just my opinion another comment in general so I don't want anyone to get butt hurt by it if you fall in that category.
 
Makaveli said:
hehe that wasn't directed to you the home comment I mean just in general.

I was more referring to those that upgrade every 6 months or yearly basis. They generally aren't people that have careers they tend to be kids living at home with their parents who don't have any real responsibilities yet.

Obviously there are exceptions to this rule just my opinion another comment in general so I don't want anyone to get butt hurt by it if you fall in that category.
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Some people just bleed money and rather than go buy booze they buy a CPU lol.
 
Vic Vega said:
I'll probably have this system through 2014 or 2015, by that time there should be an all in one device that offer 5x the performance and costs $500.
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You think you're going to quintuple your performance for 1/3 the cost in 2 years?
 
I wish the ARMA series was more popular with the average gamer. Although it is an above-average learning curve, so it is not for the run-n-gun console porter.

ARMA 2 still kills my system, and ARMA 3 is around the corner. Beautiful game.

Again, depending on what you do with your computer, there may be a reason to upgrade.
 
OCGuy said:
I wish the ARMA series was more popular with the average gamer. Although it is an above-average learning curve, so it is not for the run-n-gun console porter.

ARMA 2 still kills my system, and ARMA 3 is around the corner. Beautiful game.

Again, depending on what you do with your computer, there may be a reason to upgrade.
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But does it kill your computer becuase there's just THAT much going on or becaue its shit code?
 
well speaking of upgrades I just went from an Athlon x2 64 system with 8GB of ram to a core i7 system with 24GB of ram and a SSD for OS drive as well. TBH it's slightly below what I expected. (I often still have to wait for certain things to load, and windows does take a minute or two to login to the domain) but overall it's faster and more snappy. On my old system just right clicking the desktop would sometimes lag out for no reason. Now basic UI actions are so much more snappy. Multiple file transfers at a time also go fast, and I think that's the big thing with SSDs is they can multitask better.

Now I need to get some new games so I can see what my 1GB video cards can do.

Loading UT3 is also faster, overall things are way more responsive. I need to render something insane in Autocad now just to see how fast this can go!

I'm thinking I'll have this PC for another 5+ years. I don't tend to upgrade that often, but when I do, I go all out.
 
Not really sure what the OP's point is here. We're all glad for you for this revelation and all, but what's the thread accomplishing? I still enjoy gaming and upgrading as much as I always have and I'm sorry you don't find the same enjoyment anymore. Wishing you the best of luck in finding a new hobby.
 
T_Yamamoto said:
or you have asian parents who wont let you build because of that one C -_-
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