"Future Proofing" DOESNT EXIST

[PhilBoisvert]

The thing that REALLY grinds my gears is when people get a 1000watt power supply when they only need 300 because "it's future proof"

 

Like are you serious?

 

Well it's a smart choice if he want to go SLI later or something. A PSU can easily last a couple build. 1000 for 300 is puching it tho, 1000 for 600 or 700 would be more realistic

[Hackzzila]

I say that he isn't ENTIRELY true, I bought a 750W PSU because I know I'm going to upgrade GPUs in the near future

[LePawel]

Well, my parents bought an HP HDX 18 ~5 years ago. Full HD then was fucking cool. Huge Screen, badass peformance for the time, now runs Windows 8.1 still kicking some ass. Future proofing exists unless you're an early adopter or innovator:

If you invest in a $1200 laptop instead of buying one for $300 it will last you much longer, partially because it's better spec, and partially because subconscious makes you take care of expensive stuff more. It's more than spending cash.

Sure, if you know your shit and you use it to the max you'll always use new stuff to the max just as well, hence future proofing doesn't work. If you're a casual user and invest more money, aging hardware will last you longer.

[EllieTheFuzzy]

In Terms of Future Proofing, I've seen CPU's like the i7 990X/Xeon X5650/i7 980X Still kick some serious butt despite being about 5-6 years old. GTX 480 was still quite a monster card for a while too (and a monster heater too). And look at the HD 7950 and HD 7970 And dare i say HD 7990 (I believe a 7990 might edge out a GTX 980?, correct me if im wrong but i did see it lay waste to a R9 290X and the Original TITAN), 3 years old and still kicking hella butt.

 

Or you know i could maybe make up an example here.

 

Go back to 2012, You want to build yourself an epic Gaming PC for lets say 1080P. You go for an i5 3570K, 4GB GTX 670/680 (For future Proofing) and a RM 850 PSU (Future Proofing).

Now zip forward maybe a few years and maybe 1440P becomes what 1080P maybe was back then (my memory is fuzzy), And you want to upgrade from 1080P To 1440P? Well that system is still pretty future proof and if you still want blazing performance you dont need to go out and buy a whole fancy new system. just find another 670/680 and plug it in to go along with the 1440P goodness and i guess with it being 4GB it'll help with fancier textures and well yeah a simple change.

 

I dont know if that counts as truly future proof or i just made a terribad post but i am getting kind of sleepy so yeah.

 

However the first thing i could do to pick apart the 2012 Gaming PC was that there was no fancy 4GB 670/680 back in 2011....However i do see a lot of gamers still lovingly game as hard with 2600/2700 K's 4 Years on.

[Prastupok]

People refer to PSUs as future proofing... but they don't change. Getting one over-powered opens an upgrade path, but they don't give better performance over time.

[William5849]

See that's the dumb thing. Even the Titian X will be obsolete in a year if not less for some people. What about if they release a 980ti. They come out with a card every year. A year is not future proof.

[Kalle Hänninen]

There are standards and protocols that say otherwise. Intel owns this and the other many-worlds and theres nothing you can do. x86 was even outperformed in the nineties but even that didnt help. Even Mac was outperforming them and still they ended up being licencing company.

[ManWithBeard1990]

I beg to differ. You buy a machine that's reasonably quick and don't expect to have to upgrade immediately when the next gen comes along. That's about as futureproof as it gets but it IS futureproof to some degree. That said, I've never had to buy a new pc just because the old one wasn't fast enough. I always use it until it's broken

[randy hutajulu]

As far as my experience, buying a something80 (680 or 780) will give u higest setting for 3 or 4 years.

Actually my 680 still can do higest setting on 1080p till now with a proper AA

[Remilia]

See that's the dumb thing. Even the Titian X will be obsolete in a year if not less for some people. What about if they release a 980ti. They come out with a card every year. A year is not future proof.

 

Not really. Future proofing depends on the current tech and your personal needs. If your demands are barely fulfilled by a Titan X right now, of course it's not going to be future proof. It's a concept of making overkill build for lower standards, such as 1080p gaming.

 

If a Titan X gets obsolete for some people by the year, it's because they demand too much for future proofing.

[Hero7750]

Future Proofing DOES NOT exist with PC's. Plain and simple, you cannot "future proof" technology that doesnt exist and when technology continues to evolve. The technology today is obsolete tomorrow. Please for your own sake, get the phrase out of your head because it doesnt exist. Please dont take this the wrong way, im not saying that "you" are stupid, im not saying you are an idiot for saying it. Im simply just putting your mind right because it simply does not exist. Future Proofing literally means "the ability of something to continue to be of value in the distant future" and that absolutely does not exist in our industry. So please, again, get that phrase out of your head.

 

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Future proofing can work for a couple of generations of products. I bought an i3 4360 with an lga 1150 socket to future proof for the new broadwell cpu's coming out. It exists, just not for the extent we would all like.

[Caeradwyn]

Future Proofing DOES NOT exist with PC's. Plain and simple, you cannot "future proof" technology that doesnt exist and when technology continues to evolve. The technology today is obsolete tomorrow. Please for your own sake, get the phrase out of your head because it doesnt exist. Please dont take this the wrong way, im not saying that "you" are stupid, im not saying you are an idiot for saying it. Im simply just putting your mind right because it simply does not exist. Future Proofing literally means "the ability of something to continue to be of value in the distant future" and that absolutely does not exist in our industry. So please, again, get that phrase out of your head.

 

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One single universal definition for the expression "Future Proofing" DOES NOT exist. You are the one who say that it involves the term "distant future". Buying brand new, but older generation hardware right now, in order to save money, is going to mean that you have no upgrade path to speak of in the years to come. However, buying the very most recent platform, with support for the latest, and hopefully upcoming CPUs will mean that there's a good chance you might be able to upgrade to a faster CPU a couple of years down the line. This is about as "Future Proof" as a system can get. Also, if you build an absolute top of the line computer right now, it's probably going to still be very capable 5 years from now. This is what people normally mean by "future proofing". Nobody who knows enough about PCs to actually hang out on a computer forum, would ever believe that there is such a thing as an absolutely future proof system, that will still be top of the line indefinitely.

 

Clearly the expression annoy you though, and I'm sorry for that. I doubt people will stop using it simply due to that though.

[WhiteSkyMage]

Future Proofing DOES NOT exist with PC's. Plain and simple, you cannot "future proof" technology that doesnt exist and when technology continues to evolve. The technology today is obsolete tomorrow. Please for your own sake, get the phrase out of your head because it doesnt exist. Please dont take this the wrong way, im not saying that "you" are stupid, im not saying you are an idiot for saying it. Im simply just putting your mind right because it simply does not exist. Future Proofing literally means "the ability of something to continue to be of value in the distant future" and that absolutely does not exist in our industry. So please, again, get that phrase out of your head.

 

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It can exist in some cases, like buying a 1440p 144Hz monitor knowing that you don't need more than that