Originally posted by Pynda But why does any of this matter anymore? If you've got a video card and cpu that can handle games better than the latest generation of consoles, then it seems to me you've got everything you're going to need until the next generation (of consoles) comes out. Because let's face it, exclusive PC Gaming is completely and utterly dead. But if you're doing science or other professionally oriented graphics projects with your PC, that might be another story. However you're still going to have to work with only goosed up laptop cpu's. Because the dedicated desktop processor is now dead too.
Your right and for most this the case there is no need to upgrade if you have a 290x.
But it's my hobby i upgrade needed or not also for OC and get nice benchmarks.
Waste of money maybe but for me it's not if my rig is overpowered for current games so be it i just like to upgrade every year and i can afford it.
But as you said if you have decent rig already even when The Witcher 3 released in may most mid range and high end can run it very well with a 290-290x or 780-780ti.
Hope to build full AMD system RYZEN/VEGA/AM4!!!
MB:Asus V De Luxe z77 CPU:Intell Icore7 3770k GPU: AMD Fury X(waiting for BIG VEGA 10 or 11 HBM2?(bit unclear now)) MEMORY:Corsair PLAT.DDR3 1866MHZ 16GB PSU:Corsair AX1200i OS:Windows 10 64bit
Too bad it requires hand-curated driver profiles to work well in any particular title. The titles that have them run wonderfully. The ones that don't, you may has well just have a underclocked 290x.
The card itself is a marvel of engineering, my only beef is with the updating and maintenance of Crossfile profiles (and I have the same issue with nVidia SLI - I don't advocate multi-GPU setups in general).
Thanks to how inefficient current graphics APIs are. Thankfully, Vulkan and Dx12 are just around the corner, and scale they will, so IMO such purchase is often justified in the long run. I'd still call you mental for spending more than $500 on graphics hardware alone but hey .... its a free world out there :P
Also I wouldn't be the one to buy into the marketing of "Hey we managed to squeeze 8 billion transistors on this baby ... that must be worth at least couple thousand dollars", no ... Unless they shrink the die further, they are just reiterating old tech on new prices. Probably the new AMDs will try to pull the same trick. Thus I won't upgrade this year. Still happy with my OCed 290X
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Your right and for most this the case there is no need to upgrade if you have a 290x.
But it's my hobby i upgrade needed or not also for OC and get nice benchmarks.
Waste of money maybe but for me it's not if my rig is overpowered for current games so be it i just like to upgrade every year and i can afford it.
But as you said if you have decent rig already even when The Witcher 3 released in may most mid range and high end can run it very well with a 290-290x or 780-780ti.
Hope to build full AMD system RYZEN/VEGA/AM4!!!
MB:Asus V De Luxe z77
CPU:Intell Icore7 3770k
GPU: AMD Fury X(waiting for BIG VEGA 10 or 11 HBM2?(bit unclear now))
MEMORY:Corsair PLAT.DDR3 1866MHZ 16GB
PSU:Corsair AX1200i
OS:Windows 10 64bit
Thanks to how inefficient current graphics APIs are. Thankfully, Vulkan and Dx12 are just around the corner, and scale they will, so IMO such purchase is often justified in the long run. I'd still call you mental for spending more than $500 on graphics hardware alone but hey .... its a free world out there :P
Also I wouldn't be the one to buy into the marketing of "Hey we managed to squeeze 8 billion transistors on this baby ... that must be worth at least couple thousand dollars", no ... Unless they shrink the die further, they are just reiterating old tech on new prices. Probably the new AMDs will try to pull the same trick. Thus I won't upgrade this year. Still happy with my OCed 290X