When should I upgrade?

[eZGraviity]

Hello,

 

Not exactly looking to upgrade anytime in the next several months, but I'm curious to know what the communities thoughts are on when I should start consider upgrading my PC setup. My current setup is by no means bad, but with some of the new games the past few months that I play such as MW3 and the more recent updates to MW2 Warzone, my current build is certainly working a fair bit harder than it used to. I would expect the games coming out over the next couple years will start taking advantage of newer features such as DDR5, so I'd like to be able to take advantage of that when it comes. I would rate it as a fairly solid setup for the money, but I'm curious what people think as far as how long I can expect it to stay relevant. I'm by no means a pro gamer, but I do like running high graphics settings and frame rates when hardware allows...

 

 

Current setup:

 

Case: Corsair 4000D Mid Tower

CPU & Mobo: Intel i7-10700K on a Gigabyte Aorus Pro AX Z490

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15

Ram: 64 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX

GPU: Radeon RX 6800XT

PSU: Corsair 750W 

Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD + (2) 1TB WD HDD

[Hinjima]

8 minutes ago, eZGraviity said:

Hello,

 

Not exactly looking to upgrade anytime in the next several months, but I'm curious to know what the communities thoughts are on when I should start consider upgrading my PC setup. My current setup is by no means bad, but with some of the new games the past few months that I play such as MW3 and the more recent updates to MW2 Warzone, my current build is certainly working a fair bit harder than it used to. I would expect the games coming out over the next couple years will start taking advantage of newer features such as DDR5, so I'd like to be able to take advantage of that when it comes. I would rate it as a fairly solid setup for the money, but I'm curious what people think as far as how long I can expect it to stay relevant. I'm by no means a pro gamer, but I do like running high graphics settings and frame rates when hardware allows...

 

 

Current setup:

 

Case: Corsair 4000D Mid Tower

CPU & Mobo: Intel i7-10700K on a Gigabyte Aorus Pro AX Z490

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15

Ram: 64 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX

GPU: Radeon RX 6800XT

PSU: Corsair 750W 

Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD + (2) 1TB WD HDD

Upgrade when you feel like your current system is not performing as well as you want it to. There are no set time or length one should own parts before one needs to upgrade. Its all down to what you feel.

[corrado33]

9 minutes ago, eZGraviity said:

Not exactly looking to upgrade anytime in the next several months

Given this sentence, nothing.

 

You upgrade when you want higher performance in something. Not when you "think" you need to upgrade.

 

Absolutely NOTHING will be taking advantage of DDR5 anytime soon. It takes AGES for software to catch up to hardware advances. Most programs STILL aren't taking full or proper advantage of multi-threading.  

[maplepants]

I roughly match my gaming PC upgrades to game console generations. 
 

8800 GTX > GTX 970 > RTX 3080. 
 

It has the benefit of making my upgrades massive. 
 

Slight upgrades are a sucker’s game. Waiting close to 10 years and doing a massive upgrade is where it’s at.