Hi guys, i started a thread here a while ago and had decided on a skylake CPU and a 1070 GPU. However after some more reading im not so sure anymore.
I used to be one of the upgrade once a year as soon as new hardware was released guys, now as i get older i have shifted to playing more console games, as well as just using what i have for longer, been 6 years since my last PC upgrade as im sure you can tell by my sig.
So obviously longevity is absolutely massive concern for me.
I didnt know what gsync/freesync was when i decided to upgrade, now that i know what it is it seems like its a no brainier for me to get, especially since gaming is half of what i use my PC for. This makes the $150-200 G sync tax hard to swallow, but this is minor in comparison to my biggest concern.
Im honestly concerned about Nvidias lack of jumping on the DX12 bandwagon, they are offering very poor performance in the API that IS going to be the main gaming API in the years to come, like it or not, thank the consoles for that. But instead of embracing it Nvidia is focusing on the past, DX 11, a API that is already being phased out and over the next few years will not be used much.
What worries me about this is im learning that this is a hardware issue and that nvidia will need to release new chips to really change there DX12 performance, combine this with Nvidias drop it like its hot driver support for their older GPU's and only focusing on the current generation, makes me think perhaps a 1070 is not the way to go in the current situation we are in, if looking for a 5-6 year lifespan.
My issue is AMD has nothing in the GPU segment i wish to be in, the $500 range.
So my question is what do i do, upgrade to skylake and 1070 now and probably become very bitter as nvidia fails to increase DX12 performance through drivers and i find a 1070 falling behind in new DX12 games over the next few years.
Or my second option is forget nvidia for now, buy a freesync monitor and a RX480 or wait for RX470 only as a stopgap measure, both huge increases over my current setup and then take a look next year when AMD get the high end GPU's out, and hopefully Nvidia pulls there heads out of there asses and also releases a competative DX12 GPU, and then at that time upgrade to a high end DX12 GPU. I could even just do monitor and GPU now and keep my old i7-930@4.2Ghz as im sure its fine for a lower end card such as a rx470/480, and perhaps get a even newer than skylake CPU next year as well.
What would you guys do?
I used to be one of the upgrade once a year as soon as new hardware was released guys, now as i get older i have shifted to playing more console games, as well as just using what i have for longer, been 6 years since my last PC upgrade as im sure you can tell by my sig.
So obviously longevity is absolutely massive concern for me.
I didnt know what gsync/freesync was when i decided to upgrade, now that i know what it is it seems like its a no brainier for me to get, especially since gaming is half of what i use my PC for. This makes the $150-200 G sync tax hard to swallow, but this is minor in comparison to my biggest concern.
Im honestly concerned about Nvidias lack of jumping on the DX12 bandwagon, they are offering very poor performance in the API that IS going to be the main gaming API in the years to come, like it or not, thank the consoles for that. But instead of embracing it Nvidia is focusing on the past, DX 11, a API that is already being phased out and over the next few years will not be used much.
What worries me about this is im learning that this is a hardware issue and that nvidia will need to release new chips to really change there DX12 performance, combine this with Nvidias drop it like its hot driver support for their older GPU's and only focusing on the current generation, makes me think perhaps a 1070 is not the way to go in the current situation we are in, if looking for a 5-6 year lifespan.
My issue is AMD has nothing in the GPU segment i wish to be in, the $500 range.
So my question is what do i do, upgrade to skylake and 1070 now and probably become very bitter as nvidia fails to increase DX12 performance through drivers and i find a 1070 falling behind in new DX12 games over the next few years.
Or my second option is forget nvidia for now, buy a freesync monitor and a RX480 or wait for RX470 only as a stopgap measure, both huge increases over my current setup and then take a look next year when AMD get the high end GPU's out, and hopefully Nvidia pulls there heads out of there asses and also releases a competative DX12 GPU, and then at that time upgrade to a high end DX12 GPU. I could even just do monitor and GPU now and keep my old i7-930@4.2Ghz as im sure its fine for a lower end card such as a rx470/480, and perhaps get a even newer than skylake CPU next year as well.
What would you guys do?
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