I've been away from the PC game, can anyone update me?

[Fictionvl]

Hello LTT, I'm a bit of an old user on this forum, and I've stopped messing with computers for a while because of some things that happened to me IRL.

 

can anyone give me a quick run down of whats new, whats better, how stuff compare and just general stuff. thanks!

[stconquest]

CPUs are faster.

 

GPUs are faster.

 

Digital storage is faster.

 

Everything uses less energy.

 

Games look better.

[Fictionvl]

3 minutes ago, stconquest said:

CPUs are faster.

 

GPUs are faster.

 

Digital storage is faster.

 

Everything uses less energy.

 

Games look better.

pls.

[stconquest]

1 minute ago, Fictionvl said:

pls.

pls what?

[Droidbot]

Intel released Skylake, which was a shrink to 14nm, and then Kaby Lake (7th Gen) which offered a small speed boost.

AMD is releasing Ryzen, which is a mid-high end architecture. It comes in quad, hexa, and octa core varieties (rumors) and is slated for end of Feb. 

 

Nvidia released Pascal, and the GTX 1000 series. The GTX 1080 and 1070 are currently the market leaders in terms of consumer GPU power, and the new revised Titan X is there for anybody stupid enough to buy it. 1080 Ti is slated for release soon. (rumors)

AMD has released Polaris, which is meant to be their low-mid end architecture. The new RX series (460, 470, 480) are designed to compete with the GTX (1050, 1050 Ti, 1060 3/6G). They are releasing their new high end VEGA architecture soon.

 

Intel released the 6950x, and 10 people and one Saudi prince bought one. 

10C/20T and an insane price tag lead to well..

[it_dont_work]

Half life 3 still hasn't come out, even though we've been seeing it 'confirmed' for years. 

[Master Disaster]

6 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Intel released Skylake, which was a shrink to 14nm, and then Kaby Lake (7th Gen) which offered a small speed boost.

AMD is releasing Ryzen, which is a mid-high end architecture. It comes in quad, hexa, and octa core varieties (rumors) and is slated for end of Feb. 

 

Nvidia released Pascal, and the GTX 1000 series. The GTX 1080 and 1070 are currently the market leaders in terms of consumer GPU power, and the new revised Titan X is there for anybody stupid enough to buy it. 1080 Ti is slated for release soon. (rumors)

AMD has released Polaris, which is meant to be their low-mid end architecture. The new RX series (460, 470, 480) are designed to compete with the GTX (1050, 1050 Ti, 1060 3/6G). They are releasing their new high end VEGA architecture soon.

 

Intel released the 6950x, and 10 people and one Saudi prince bought one. 

10C/20T and an insane price tag lead to well..

Op has a 6700K build.

[SCHISCHKA]

Windows still sucks but the new MS CEO is so much cooler than the last one. Steam os is stable and has a nice library of older affordable games. Quake is slowly dying but we still play it, same goes for left for dead. Mine craft is for pedos, all the kids are into rocket league. Intel and nvidia have cornered the high end hardware market. Everyone is leaving the mechanical hard drive market except for expensive enterprise priced drives. SSD are now standard and affordable. You can play CSGO on high graphics detail on an intel laptop without dedicated gpu. Amd still sucks for gaming except the new rx480 cards are better for budget builds below the gtx1070. Amd CPUs have not changed much in five years. Donald trump is president of USA and property prices fuelled by Chinese investment are still inflating the bubble. What else do you need to know?

[Yahtadi]

AMD rises again

[Yahtadi]

13 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Intel released Skylake, which was a shrink to 14nm, and then Kaby Lake (7th Gen) which offered a small speed boost.

AMD is releasing Ryzen, which is a mid-high end architecture. It comes in quad, hexa, and octa core varieties (rumors) and is slated for end of Feb. 

 

Nvidia released Pascal, and the GTX 1000 series. The GTX 1080 and 1070 are currently the market leaders in terms of consumer GPU power, and the new revised Titan X is there for anybody stupid enough to buy it. 1080 Ti is slated for release soon. (rumors)

AMD has released Polaris, which is meant to be their low-mid end architecture. The new RX series (460, 470, 480) are designed to compete with the GTX (1050, 1050 Ti, 1060 3/6G). They are releasing their new high end VEGA architecture soon.

 

Intel released the 6950x, and 10 people and one Saudi prince bought one. 

10C/20T and an insane price tag lead to well..

Arabian doesnt need to know about all this
They just buy the best of the best and still get dissapointed anyway

[Princess Luna]

16 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Intel released the 6950x, and 10 people and one Saudi prince bought one. 

Even if I won the lottery and could do the dream build I wouldn't use the 6950x, it is such a rip off

I doubt that anyone who won't be doing intensive actual work that requires that much from a cpu can't be satisfied already with the i7 7700k, I like the whole idea of over kill but the 6950x is just "dumb".

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, Aleksiandrovich said:

VR is a thing?

Not to a lot of people, some simply prefer the good and old display screen it ain't about being able to afford it or not, but then again if you went through the trouble to have VR at your rig you are likely to defend it and say those things such as "you say VR is not good cuz you no have one, stop being poor" lmao

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, Aleksiandrovich said:

VR is a thing doesn't imply its mainstream, now does it?

Like I said the ones who went for it are doing all  they can it goes mainstream, becomes a requirement for PC gaming in every way, I often see topics and posts here claiming there should be a forum section entirely dedicated to it already and so on.

[Guest]

AMD isn't hot anymore

GTX 1080 from NVidia wasn't designed for 1080p gaming

AMD making great processors again

Intel now has an i7 7700k for dank 7 awesomeness

 

CS: Go is a thing

Overwatch is a thing

ARK is kinda a thing

 

 

 

[Guest]

5 hours ago, Aleksiandrovich said:

Wasn't CSGO a thing from 2012 tho?

Still a thing. At least for me

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Aleksiandrovich said:

Wasn't CSGO a thing from 2012 tho?

Counter-Strike is a thing since 2002

[theklax]

15 minutes ago, Yahtadi said:

AMD rises again

huehueh

[XenosTech]

Pineapples still go on pizza

[Princess Luna]

Just now, Aleksiandrovich said:

CS"GO" - Global Offensive.

CS = Counter-Strike, the franchise is probably the oldest first person shooter still doing good numbers, it will always be a thing regardless what version it is, 1.5 1.6 Condition Zero Source Global Offensive [:

[Space Reptile]

EVERYTHING IS RGB

[kelvinhall05]

2 hours ago, XenosTech said:

Pineapples still go on pizza

Chicken and onion still go on crispy thin (bae).

[Mello]

i7 7700K is the new Intel flagship, it doesn't have much performance difference than the previous i7 6700K... both use LGA1151 socket.

AMD is finally making new CPU's after 5 years, they're called Ryzen, 6 of them not out yet but really close. they'll have the same performance as Intel as I heard.

They're all overclockable, and might have less price than Intel.

 

Nvidia made the GTX 1080 (8GB VRAM) which is the most powerful consumer GPU right now it can play most triple A games at 4K at 60FPS high settings,

AMD made RX 480 (8/4GB VRAM) which is a good budget GPU it can play almost anything at 1080p on ultra settings... Then Nvidia made the GTX 1060 to counter that.

 

M.2 SSD's are all over the place, very small and very fast. you just put them on the motherboard and BOOM, everything becomes Sonic!!

 

RGB is the new Black and red, you can't build anything without at least 1 RGB thing, unless you like to be eaten by comments... Fans even RAM has RGB now!

 

PSU's are the same I guess, small cases are popular.

 

Ultrawide monitors (21:9) are getting popular now, and it deserves it. IPS panel which has the most accurate colors is affordable now.

Asus just made a 4K 144hz (Can display 144 FPS) 

 

Noctua still ugly...............

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, Mello said:

Nvidia made the GTX 1080 (8GB VRAM) which is the most powerful consumer GPU

Titan XP sends its regards

By the way I still can't figure out why M.2 SSD become such a big deal so quick, in real world performance and the great majority of users the good and old Sata3 SSDs are still all they need for more reasonable pricing.

 

@Aleksiandrovich My point was that CS was a thing, is a thing and will remain a thing regardless of its version.

[theklax]

Honestly in the past few years for me;

 

SSDs have gotten fucken quick (too fast for the SATA interface)

Adaptive refresh is the cats pajamas

Ultra wide enthusiasts exist

RGB and tempered glass all day erryday

A new Doom came out and it wasn't shit

[handymanshandle]

11 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Not to a lot of people, some simply prefer the good and old display screen it ain't about being able to afford it or not, but then again if you went through the trouble to have VR at your rig you are likely to defend it and say those things such as "you say VR is not good cuz you no have one, stop being poor" lmao

Eh it's a thing to me, I don't have an HMD myself or even a computer that could run it. 

 

Right now VR is in its infancy and it will still be that way for a little while since there's only 2 strong competitors and there's not quite a way to make that playing field level such as an API to make it not device specific for specific games.

 

I tried a Vive for a few minutes it was an interesting experience to say the least, and I'd be interested in seeing it sort of "grow up" to become more.