Future Proof Pc

[StackerRig]

I want opinions and i want to see how long your future proof pc build guide should last and stuff.

[Himommies]

My general opinion is instead of buying a 3k PC evrey 6 years,get 2 1.5 k pc's every 3 years 

[Sauron]

It's impossible to know how long a build will "last", I recommend to avoid buying stuff you don't need in the hope that it will "last" you longer because by the time you actually use it it may have been better to just upgrade anyway.

 

If you want a build suggestion give us your budget and tell us what you need it to do.

[RoryDash]

Okay, so if you spend about 2.5k Euro on a PC today it will last 6yrs with your average gpu update every 2-3yrs.

[Zando_]

Build something with Threadripper and 4-way SLI Titan X's (there's a hack to let it work in games) and it should last a massive amount of years at 1080p. It'd also be an overpowered waste of money. 

[RoryDash]

GPU & HardDrive/SSD are really the only major components apart from cooler I would expect to 'upgrade' every couple of years

[Minbari]

Future proofing is tough to quantify. Chipsets and CPU sockets are updating every couple years on both mainstream and enthusiast platforms. Generational improvements in GPU performance alone can double graphics performance in a couple years. Buying "cheaper" components now and upgrading in less time will net you a better experience over the lifetime of your computer than buying highest end components now and being forced to extract 5 years out of them, by which point there are extremely outdated. 

[Snipeon]

6 minutes ago, StackerRig said:

I want opinions and i want to see how long your future proof pc build guide should last and stuff.

Future proof? It's almost impossible to do that. Technology advances are something you can't predict, and something which is necessary for the future may come out just one day after you build your rig. If you want your stuff to last as long as possible, only way is to buy all the newest and greatest parts now and hope it wouldn't be obsolete anytime soon.

 

As for my own opinion on building PCs, just select your parts based on whether you would require them or not, not whether it would be future proof.

[Zando_]

Just now, RoryDash said:

GPU & HardDrive/SSD are really the only major components apart from cooler I would expect to 'upgrade' every couple of years

I'm running a Sandy Bridge i5 (hope to get Ryzen) and a 980 Ti. Pretty smooth, and I don't really need to upgrade for the games I play. If you always want to run the latest and greatest, you'll need to upgrade every year or two (GPU only is you start with a solid CPU), but if you stick with your faves or lower settings, you can stick with one build for ages. 

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Build something with Threadripper and 4-way SLI Titan X's (there's a hack to let it work in games) and it should last a massive amount of years at 1080p. It'd also be an overpowered waste of money. 

Until you realize many games don't support any sort of SLI and a threadripper (just like every other cpu on the market) is still slower than a 7700k in most games. realistically you'd want to upgrade to a newer graphics card within 3 years.

[Guest]

Just now, Sauron said:

Until you realize many games don't support any sort of SLI and a threadripper (just like every other cpu on the market) is still slower than a 7700k in most games. realistically you'd want to upgrade to a newer graphics card within 3 years.

That's what future comes, games will utilize more cores and more games will support SLI

[Sauron]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

That's what future comes, games will utilize more cores and more games will support SLI

People have been saying that for 6 years, I still have to see it happen. If you were to overspend based on this assumption it would be a gamble at best.

 

And to be clear, it's not impossible that things will "last" you longer than anticipated - you just can't know.

[The Sloth]

Just now, Sauron said:

People have been saying that for 6 years, I still have to see it happen. If you were to overspend based on this assumption it would be a gamble at best.

 

6 years are consoles were potato, how we have proper 8 cores consoles, yes future games will use more cores, even now most AAA games use more than 4 cores. 

[CatXice]

u cant future proof yr system with hardware ie cpu and gpu as there basicly going to always become old and out dated and not upto the job any more its just how it is so you need to look at say a high wattage psu high end coolers what support for water cooling your case has and things like that

[RoryDash]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

I'm running a Sandy Bridge i5 (hope to get Ryzen) and a 980 Ti. Pretty smooth, and I don't really need to upgrade for the games I play. If you always want to run the latest and greatest, you'll need to upgrade every year or two (GPU only is you start with a solid CPU), but if you stick with your faves or lower settings, you can stick with one build for ages. 

Exactly, the best advice most will give you is to buy the best CPU and Motherboard in combination you can per budget, with a decent PSU you're set for a good number of years. I went with the i7 5820k two years ago on an X99-A and even today it's still absolutely fantastic for 3D rendering.

[Constantin]

11 minutes ago, RoryDash said:

GPU & HardDrive/SSD are really the only major components apart from cooler I would expect to 'upgrade' every couple of years

A top  end GPU is quite a good future proof

[The Sloth]

2 minutes ago, Constantin said:

A top  end GPU is quite a good future proof

nope, 780ti is similer to a gtx 1050ti while the i7 4770k is still a highend CPU. 

[StackerRig]

1 minute ago, nerdslayer1 said:

nope, 780ti is similer to a gtx 1050ti while the i7 4770k is still a highend CPU. 

uh the i7 4770k is basically an i5 6600k or an r5 1400

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, StackerRig said:

uh the i7 4770k is basically an i5 6600k or an r5 1400

no its not, i7 is a 4c/8t proc while i5 6600k is a 4c/4t

[StackerRig]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

no its not, i7 is a 4c/8t proc while i5 6600k is a 4c/4t

yes thats true but the performance is the same

 

[The Sloth]

4 minutes ago, StackerRig said:

uh the i7 4770k is basically an i5 6600k or an r5 1400

nope, 4770k competes with a 7700k, i5s are dead. 

[StackerRig]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

nope, 4770k competes with a 7700k, i5s are dead. 

true that, i5s are dead

 

[Guest]

Just now, StackerRig said:

yes thats true but the performance is the same

 

how? haswell is just a generation older than skylake. 

[Guest]

also here

 

[StackerRig]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

also here

 

for real? been watching videos must have gotten the wrong information