Sterlingsilv3r

I’m the same. I used to spend 20-30hrs a week gaming, but that was when I was in my early 20’s, now I’m going to be 40 in a few months, I just built a gaming rig minus a video card (saving up for a decent card) I just don’t game like I did. I’ve done a lot of FPS. I was huge into Team Fortress 2 when it came out, and I logged back in a few weeks ago, and everything changed, the gamers changed to young 13yr old punks, and my desire isn’t there anymore to pwn them lol. i now game about 30min a month since building my current rig and I have an Xbox one x that my wife bought for me a year ago, and since June of this year, I haven’t even turned it on. it’s the sign of maturing.

Thanks, I've been in the computer game for 25yrs now, and this was the longest time between upgrades (almost 10yrs) but I'm frazzled as I want to game and play the odd game while said baby is still too young for me to handle (IE nursing haha) and my current 750ti just can't handle any games at more than 720p resolution, but I'd like to go RTX, and it's a damn if you do, damn if don't for upgrading, like it always has been. I'll see what the sales will be in a month and a half from now, and see. If Nvidia or AMD had an upgrade path road map for time frames for next gen GPU's, I would probably wait until next gen, but god only knows when that will be.

I know, I know, I'm a long time reader/creeper and I finally decided to register and ask this god awful question. So I'm an Nvidia fan (not a fanboi) and I'm sitting with a Core i7 8700k Oc'd to 5ghz, 16gb ddr4, MSI Tomahawk Z390 motherboard and a gifted to me Geforce 750ti and an AOC 24" 1080p Freesync 75hz monitor. Not get into all the details, but I just bought and upgraded to those current specs back in December and just as I was planning and parting and saving up for my computer, my wife and I decided to do IVF to have a baby and $40,000CAN+ later, my wife is pregnant and I'm allowed to do 1 video card upgrade that has to last at least 5+yrs. So I've been racking my brain, do I go with an RTX card and pray it will last for at least 5yrs, or do I not go with RTX but stay with Nvidia. I'm somewhat restricted to about $500CAN budget, and I know I can get a 2060 Super for just above that, but I got thinking, since it is October, do I wait until the end of November or the end of December and see if any black friday/cyber monday/boxing day sales bring down the price of a 2070 Super to around the $500-600 mark? Remember, I only have a 75hz 1080p monitor, and I'm not planning to upgrade that for a long time either. 2060 Super or 2070 Super? Will a 2060 Super be fine for 1080p 75hz gaming? How will the RTX performance be? (Yes I would like to experience some ray tracing). I know obviously that the 2070 Super will be better, but can I get away with a 2060 Super or look at the 2070 Super for slightly better RTX and 1080p performance?