When will be the time to upgrade?

[pangaea]

So in waiting for prices to go down and waiting for the technology to change enough to make it worth upgrading your PC for those who aren't the kind of hardcore enthusiasts who buy 8K monitors and such, when do you think the time will come to upgrade? My 2013ish gaming PC still runs all of my games great in 1080p. So since I'm not feeling the push to upgrade and still might not for a few more years, when do you predict it will be time?

See my "home desktop" in my description if you're curious what I have but it is a more general question.

[Slottr]

When you feel that your pc isnt handling games as well as it should be

 

as long as it does what you want then theres no reason to upgrade anything, really

[pangaea]

Just now, Slottr said:

When you feel that your pc isnt handling games as well as it should be

 

as long as it does what you want then theres no reason to upgrade anything, really

I know, thus why I've held out on upgrading but I'm trying to predict when we'll have the hardware and software in existence to where I actually feel like it would be worth upgrading. My 2013ish PC runs all of my games at 1080p in max settings but sooner or later the technology will probably change enough to where I feel a push to upgrade. The thing I'm seeing that may create a push to upgrade for some soon is that 4K monitors are coming down in price which may make them more appealing to the mainstream market thus people buying them needing beefier GPUs to run their games. If you only care about 1080p, a computer like mine is perfectly fine though. Another thing is I remember seeing a video about new shader tech in GPUs. This could render older hardware obsolete at some point in the forseeable future.

[Wh0_Am_1]

12 minutes ago, pangaea said:

So in waiting for prices to go down and waiting for the technology to change enough to make it worth upgrading your PC for those who aren't the kind of hardcore enthusiasts who buy 8K monitors and such, when do you think the time will come to upgrade? My 2013ish gaming PC still runs all of my games great in 1080p. So since I'm not feeling the push to upgrade and still might not for a few more years, when do you predict it will be time?

See my "home desktop" in my description if you're curious what I have but it is a more general question.

When is the time to upgrade depends on how much disposable income you have, what you want your computer to do, and how much you care about it's current capabilities. Right now the main components I would watch are SSD's and GPUs.

[Daniel644]

my general rule is 5-10 years, it depends on factors though, like how shitty was your computer when it was new (people that bought top end systems can go longer between upgrades) is it worth it if you are happy with the performance of your current machine then you have little reason to ever upgrade, but if you want to game at higher resolutions or play VR then you probably need to upgrade.

 

anyone upgrading more often then 5 years I would consider them an enthusiast, anyone upgrading every generation is a moron with more money then sense.

 

as far as actual timing of upgrades, you have to watch things, like right now (and for much of the last year) RAM has been INSANELY priced, 2 to 3 times what I paid for mine 2 years ago, so unless you just need the parts now I strongly advise holding off on upgrades till RAM pricing returns to normal next year.

[pangaea]

This would make an excellent LTT video now that I think about it, to discuss when people with ~5 year old hardware are going to feel the push to upgrade.