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It's not all bad - one upside is that you don't need to upgrade your hardware anywhere nearly as often as 10 or 20 years ago. I put this PC together in 2013 fo

It's not all bad - one upside is that you don't need to upgrade your hardware anywhere nearly as often as 10 or 20 years ago. I put this PC together in 2013 for maybe £500-600 total and apart from adding some RAM I haven't needed to upgrade anything and can still run games on highish settings.

criley2 9y ago
You can probably run 2016-2018 games on medium settings if you are not interested in 60fps. I imagine you can play no graphically intense game @60fps at any respectable resolution. I say this because building a computer which can play say Assassin's Creed Origins or Far Cry 5 at 1080p60 High Settings would easy run you over a $1000 right now, due in no small part to the extravagantly over-priced GPUs. Heck, it costs $400-600 to get a GPU to play those games on medium to medium high right now. Not a computer, JUST the graphics chip to get 60fps on medium. Crypto has destroyed affordable PC gaming and it makes me so sad. I can recommend Alienwares on sale that are dramatically cheaper than self-built. What happened to this industry :(
- mcjiggerlog 9y ago
  Well I guess I don't play that many super graphically-intensive games. I can, for example, play Overwatch on high settings at 1920x1080. I don't really monitor framerates, but I'm ok with about 40fps.
- mort96 9y ago
  60 FPS? I had a desktop I built in 2014, with a 4770k and an r9 290x, run Overwatch at 144 FPS at 1440p with low settings. The machine could still play Just Case 3 and GTA 5 (2015 games, but I didn't really play any graphically intensive 2016+ games on it) at 1080p 60 FPS with decent graphics settings, if I recall correctly. I have since upgraded to a 6700k and 1080Ti, but that 2014 hardware lasted well into 2017 - and the current GPU cost just under 3/4 the price of the entire 2014 computer, despite the r9 290x being a top of the line GPU. High end PC gaming definitely isn't affordable anymore.
  - AstralStorm 9y ago
    That is mostly due to cost of GPUs having been inflated by miners and perhaps the expense of having a huge monitor. Neither CPU nor GPU are progressing as fast as some predicted anymore. Additionally the shift to consoles as stable hardware platforms over time has put a damper on computing power required by economically viable games. The remaining outlets are VR and huge resolution (same thing actually) - and high quality and fidelity simulations. (Including AI.)
  - criley2 9y ago
    I have a R9 390 and it gets about 30-40fps in Assassin's Creed Origins at 1080p on high, and 40-60fps on medium It's 3 year old tech whose performance/$ is still around $300 today and it struggles. Gotta turn those settings down with my r9 390 in every modern intensive game!

criley2 9y ago

You can probably run 2016-2018 games on medium settings if you are not interested in 60fps. I imagine you can play no graphically intense game @60fps at any respectable resolution. I say this because building a computer which can play say Assassin's Creed Origins or Far Cry 5 at 1080p60 High Settings would easy run you over a $1000 right now, due in no small part to the extravagantly over-priced GPUs. Heck, it costs $400-600 to get a GPU to play those games on medium to medium high right now. Not a computer, JUST the graphics chip to get 60fps on medium. Crypto has destroyed affordable PC gaming and it makes me so sad. I can recommend Alienwares on sale that are dramatically cheaper than self-built. What happened to this industry :(

mcjiggerlog 9y ago
Well I guess I don't play that many super graphically-intensive games. I can, for example, play Overwatch on high settings at 1920x1080. I don't really monitor framerates, but I'm ok with about 40fps.
mort96 9y ago
60 FPS? I had a desktop I built in 2014, with a 4770k and an r9 290x, run Overwatch at 144 FPS at 1440p with low settings. The machine could still play Just Case 3 and GTA 5 (2015 games, but I didn't really play any graphically intensive 2016+ games on it) at 1080p 60 FPS with decent graphics settings, if I recall correctly. I have since upgraded to a 6700k and 1080Ti, but that 2014 hardware lasted well into 2017 - and the current GPU cost just under 3/4 the price of the entire 2014 computer, despite the r9 290x being a top of the line GPU. High end PC gaming definitely isn't affordable anymore.
- AstralStorm 9y ago
  That is mostly due to cost of GPUs having been inflated by miners and perhaps the expense of having a huge monitor. Neither CPU nor GPU are progressing as fast as some predicted anymore. Additionally the shift to consoles as stable hardware platforms over time has put a damper on computing power required by economically viable games. The remaining outlets are VR and huge resolution (same thing actually) - and high quality and fidelity simulations. (Including AI.)
- criley2 9y ago
  I have a R9 390 and it gets about 30-40fps in Assassin's Creed Origins at 1080p on high, and 40-60fps on medium It's 3 year old tech whose performance/$ is still around $300 today and it struggles. Gotta turn those settings down with my r9 390 in every modern intensive game!