Is upgrading/build a PC pointless atm?

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just had this conversation with my friend online, and it’s given me some food for thought.

We both have dated, but fully functional gaming PC’s. More than capable of playing anything at 60hz 1080p (for reference, I’m using a i7-4790, 1070ti, 8gb 1600hz RAM)

We set looking at benchmarks and prices on components to upgrade/build a new rig to keep up with consoles, but the Xbox series X Looks like it’s going to blow our builds away. Also the rumoured price of the series X is around £500, which historically for a new console seems about right. To build a comparable PC from scratch will cost about £1000, if not more.

I’m well are this dilemma comes with pretty much every console generation, but with the spirally cost of PC hardware, most notably the middle/high end GPU’s is building/upgrading a PC even worth it right now?

Thanks for reading my ramblings
 
The graphics card market right now is pretty terrible to say the least. Thing about computers is that they can do more than just play games. Also the games that are available is way more vast. Personally I'd say that you should just look to upgrade your RAM and you should be good for the next few years. The 1070 Ti is still a brilliant card by today's standards. Could also upgrade your processor if you'd like but any 4 core 8 thread intel processor is going to be sound for gaming for the time being.
 
DONOHUE07 said:
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Zero sense to upgrade graphics card for that until there's next generational jump and hopefully CPU like competition.
Though I think we can forget Nvidia competing in prices with so many people declaring their creed and asking for more screwing into rear.
Well, maybe Intel actually pulls some some decent graphics card.

But CPU is definitely getting outdated and only that 60Hz monitor is keeping it working.
Especially if you update monitor next-gen games are likely going to trash it.
Right now Assassin's Creed Odyssey is one of he most core hungry games and example of what next-gen games likely will be:
https://youtu.be/vVjdhXAdKE0?t=1m50s


Regality said:
The graphics card market right now is pretty terrible to say the least.
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Understatement of the century.
Graphics card situation is historically bad.
 
I'm of the school that a when a Games Console goes wrong, you cant fix it yourself in 99.9 % of cases so it either has to go to a 'approved repairer' or it goes in the bin. A PC on the other hand, a bit goes wrong - find out what it is, buy a replacement bit, fit the replacement - Job done. A games console is very limited with 'upgradeablity' if you can it won't be cheap (not as cheap as a PC in most cases) those are the reasons I'd buy a PC instead.
 
Coojeekitten said:
I'd suggest that if you are ONLY playing games, get a console. If you want to do other stuff too, get a pc.
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I’m too financially invest in PC, over the 10 years or so I’ve been gaming on PC I have amassed quite a large library over a variety of stores, plus I enjoy games that aren’t on console including PCVR games. Despite all I use my PC is gaming, PC is where I’ll stay, but the state of hardware available and prices is pretty grim, to say the least
 
DONOHUE07 said:
I’m too financially invest in PC, over the 10 years or so I’ve been gaming on PC I have amassed quite a large library over a variety of stores, plus I enjoy games that aren’t on console including PCVR games. Despite all I use my PC is gaming, PC is where I’ll stay, but the state of hardware available and prices is pretty grim, to say the least
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Fair enough, time to build a new pc. Maybe give you some extra interest during the lockdown? My new build, complete with data transfer & shouting at Wndows 10, took up a rather pleasant week - apart from the shouting bit. :)
 
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