BigBadBeef
Active Member
The most recent news on the latest hardware market on the enthusiast level is quite depressing - horrible pricing, abysmal power efficiency, coolers so big that it looks downright disgusting, and you need to spend as much for aftermarket cooling as you did for the hardware itself.
This is a shameful display! I am quite convinced that I am going to skip one generation.
Back in 2015 I built myself a pc that was a work of art in terms of ballancing the performance - a Xeon 1241v3, paired with a GTX 980. In remember that back then I made several vendors blush since what I asked for was in top 10 percentile of hardware that was available. They couldn't get it. I mean they could, but it would be a substantial price markup since they had to order it from germany. So I ordered it myself.
Now its 2022 and the problem lies that its an ideal pairing with each other. Whatever I upgrade to will bottleneck the CPU... very badly! I checked the newest possible hardware that could fit PCI-e 3.0 and and even its midrange options bottleneck the CPU at over 50% in some cases.
So has my PC really gotten THAT OLD?
Probably wouldn't have asked myself that question if I kept playing the newest titles all the time throughout the years... yet I find my interests reaching for the indie market for which hardware requirements were all on the more gentle side.
This is a shameful display! I am quite convinced that I am going to skip one generation.
Back in 2015 I built myself a pc that was a work of art in terms of ballancing the performance - a Xeon 1241v3, paired with a GTX 980. In remember that back then I made several vendors blush since what I asked for was in top 10 percentile of hardware that was available. They couldn't get it. I mean they could, but it would be a substantial price markup since they had to order it from germany. So I ordered it myself.
Now its 2022 and the problem lies that its an ideal pairing with each other. Whatever I upgrade to will bottleneck the CPU... very badly! I checked the newest possible hardware that could fit PCI-e 3.0 and and even its midrange options bottleneck the CPU at over 50% in some cases.
So has my PC really gotten THAT OLD?
Probably wouldn't have asked myself that question if I kept playing the newest titles all the time throughout the years... yet I find my interests reaching for the indie market for which hardware requirements were all on the more gentle side.