How long?

[SmilesRising]

currently i can play alll the latest games at a pretty good framerate and im wondering. when will this end? when will my pc stop preforming good on games?

 

Specs:

 

i5-4440

GTX 970 turbo

8GB DDR3 RAM

EVGA G2 550W

MSI H87M-G43

240GB SSD

2TB HDD

[Guest Kloaked]

Use your brain. I don't mean that in a mean way, but think about it. Seriously.

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, smiles rising said:

currently i can play alll the latest games at a pretty good framerate and im wondering. when will this end? when will my pc stop preforming good on games?

 

it will just slowly get worse over time, in 6-12 months i doubt you will be playing games at high settings

[SmilesRising]

Just now, Kloaked said:

Use your brain. I don't mean that in a mean way, but think about it. Seriously.

my guess is 1.5-2 years but idk..

[SmilesRising]

1 minute ago, ShadowCaptain said:

it will just slowly get worse over time, in 6-12 months i doubt you will be playing games at high settings

6 months?? really... wow thats sad..

[Guest Kloaked]

Just now, smiles rising said:

my guess is 1.5-2 years but idk..

No.

 

Your GPU will not magically stop running games well. It does not have some timer that will cause it to nerf it's performance somewhere down the road. The only way it'll not perform as well as it is today is when you are playing a game that is more demanding (optimized or not) at high graphics settings.

 

You only need to upgrade when you can afford it and are not satisfied with your performance for the resolution and frame rate you want.

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, smiles rising said:

6 months?? really... wow thats sad..

there are probably games out now that it cannot max out

 

will it still play games in 2/3 years? yeah sure, but you will progressively have to keep lowing the settings over time

[SmilesRising]

 

1 minute ago, Kloaked said:

No.

 

Your GPU will not magically stop running games well. It does not have some timer that will cause it to nerf it's performance somewhere down the road. The only way it'll not perform as well as it is today is when you are playing a game that is more demanding (optimized or not) at high graphics settings.

 

You only need to upgrade when you can afford it and are not satisfied with your performance for the resolution and frame rate you want.

 

Just now, ShadowCaptain said:

there are probably games out now that it cannot max out

 

will it still play games in 2/3 years? yeah sure, but you will progressively have to keep lowing the settings over time

Ok. I have some money for upgrades in the future. what should i upgrade when the time comes? 

[Guest Kloaked]

Just now, smiles rising said:

 

 

Ok. I have some money for upgrades in the future. what should i upgrade when the time comes? 

Dunno.

 

You have asked two questions that we cannot answer with 100% accuracy. However, your GPU tends to be the biggest bottleneck in games.

[ShadowCaptain]

Just now, smiles rising said:

 

 

Ok. I have some money for upgrades in the future. what should i upgrade when the time comes? 

I would upgrade everything tbh, since by then your CPU will be dated, you will probably want a larger SSD, a better GPU and more ram

Or just hold out as long as you can, its really up to you

Sadly there is no single answer, the games you play, you might get more time, you might get less time, you might not need certain things others do etc

[SmilesRising]

 

2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

I would upgrade everything tbh, since by then your CPU will be dated, you will probably want a larger SSD, a better GPU and more ram

Or just hold out as long as you can, its really up to you

Sadly there is no single answer, the games you play, you might get more time, you might get less time, you might not need certain things others do etc

 

2 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

Dunno.

 

You have asked two questions that we cannot answer with 100% accuracy. However, your GPU tends to be the biggest bottleneck in games.

Ok thanks for telling me this stuff. i will just play games and see when it fails i guess.

[ShadowCaptain]

2 minutes ago, smiles rising said:

Ok thanks for telling me this stuff. i will just play games and see when it fails i guess.

Yeah , it depends if new games get more demanding (likely)

 

 

[SnappingTurtle]

newer games are obviously going to get more demanding and therefore your gpu will be getting lower framerate meaning you will have to turn down settings..

[Praesi]

03.02.2017 - 17:43

[Raggou]

It's pretty simple, as newer games come out and use more demanding technologies pushing your GPU harder you will no longer be able to run the games on "High" or "Ultra" As the 970 is a pretty new card, and a great one at that you probably have about 1.5 or 2 years of gaming at high settings. (Depending on resolution as well)