10 year life build

[tecchie]

i am planning a pair of new system builds... my goal is to not be required to upgrade for 10 years and be able to play whatever i throw at it ... heres what i am looking at

16 core 32 thread treadripper

32 gb ram

1 tb nvme ssd

now i am trying to decide between the gtx 1080ti or the rtx 2080  since it was just announced i know its the first gen of the rtx tech  but do you think the gtx 1080ti will have another 10 years in it before it needs to be upgraded to play games ( even at low quality) 

i understand the system will be a bit of overkill for the standards of today but do you think i will get 10 years out of it without too many major upgrades ?

[Crunchy Dragon]

If you're not using ray tracing, the 1080Ti will last you a pretty long time.

[tecchie]

heck for the time being i plan on using exsisting 1080p monitors ... my goal is to keep 2 systems under 5k together

@Crunchy Dragon

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

It really depends on how long technology will progress. If we went with a card from ten years ago, say the GeForce 8800 GT, then it's likely a crapshoot that such a card is still good for today. The reason being a lot of AAA games since 2016 have been requiring DirectX 11 hardware. While the 8800 GT is theoretically compatible with DirectX 11 runtimes (minimum feature level support of DX11 is FL_9_1 and the 8800 GT is FL_10_1 or so), I wouldn't hold my breath those games would actually run on it.

[tecchie]

my current system is a msi gaming laptop from about 5 years ago  i7 4700 mq  nvidia geforce gtx 765m 12 gb ram  but alas being a laptop theres not much upgrade so everything in this build will be all new ...

[Crunchy Dragon]

45 minutes ago, tecchie said:

heck for the time being i plan on using exsisting 1080p monitors ... my goal is to keep 2 systems under 5k together

@Crunchy Dragon

 

1080Ti will definitely last you 10 years at 1080p, but you may have to turn the settings down as games get more and more demanding in the coming years. Still, that shouldn't be a problem.

[tecchie]

i dont imagine any of the other parts of the system will be any issue... now for the funny.. one of the rigs is for myself the other is for my wife.. i play fps my wife plays wizard 101 lol

[Amazonsucks]

13 hours ago, tecchie said:

i am planning a pair of new system builds... my goal is to not be required to upgrade for 10 years and be able to play whatever i throw at it ... heres what i am looking at

16 core 32 thread treadripper

32 gb ram

1 tb nvme ssd

now i am trying to decide between the gtx 1080ti or the rtx 2080  since it was just announced i know its the first gen of the rtx tech  but do you think the gtx 1080ti will have another 10 years in it before it needs to be upgraded to play games ( even at low quality) 

i understand the system will be a bit of overkill for the standards of today but do you think i will get 10 years out of it without too many major upgrades ?

No. 10 years is way too long when the demand for CPU and GPU power increase so rapidly.

 

Especially when you say "any game you throw at it". Ray tracing and 8k high refresh rate resolutions with Rec.2020 and Rec.2100 will be common in 2028. Chips themselves will be unlikely to even be silicon in 2028. EUV lithography is just getting started now but it will have long since reached its limits in 2028.

 

In 2028 youll likely have full 3D ICs that incorporate GB of NVRAM and have full photonics for interconnects. GPUs should be in the hundreds of TFLOPs, and may even use posits instead of FLOPS by then.

 

Also COTS computer parts arent designed for anywhere near 10 year lifespans. Mainframes are, but not PC parts.

 

Can you imagine using a "high end" PC from 2008 today with a few GB of DDR2 and spinning rust with a GPU from 2008 to play even easy to run games like TF2? TF2 came out in 2007 but they have increased the graphical complexity to the point that a computer from 2007 cant even run it.