What tech are you waiting for before next PC upgrade?

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With Ryzen coming out recently I had to ask myself do I need an upgrade right now. In the end the answer was no. I decided to wait for Zen+ which will be Ryzen on 7nm process, better IPC and likely more cores.

But there are other things that are about to come out in the next year or two which I want to benefit from upgrading.


3D XPoint

I am most excited about this technology. SSD's were great and made a huge difference when upgraded from HDDs. But it seems to me like there has been hardly progress been made in performance for day to say use/ for games for years now.

I do not know enough about Intel's Optane drives, but I am hoping they will push performance up so we get faster loading for things like games and windows. Realistically they will probably be out for 2018, certainly before Zen+ anyway I would imagine.

PCIe 4.0

Even my 4 year old Haswell PC has PCIe 3 and I want my next PC to have PCIe 4 as the PC I build will likely last 5 years or more like my current system has, so it may as well be future proofed with PCIe 4.

SATA 4.0

Don't really care much for this one, because we not have m.2 and I assume Intel's Optane will work on those or something else as SATA 4.0 won't cut it. But still, nice to have the newer tech in system :)



So, have I missed any new tech that is coming out before 2018/19? What tech are you waiting for before you upgrade your PC?
 
varkanoid said:
Volta
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Haha. I actually purposefully did not mention graphics cards as I was referring to a full system upgrade, rather than a graphics card. But if we are to include that, I am interested in both Volta and Vega. So you are wait for Volta to come out to upgrade your entire PC?

To be honest I don't think this section of the forum gets much eyeballs, I hardly come in here once or twice a year myself. If this was posted in the graphics card section it would have had a lot more activity.
 
I've kind of had enough now, I've been constantly upgrading since Haswell. Now I'm going to enjoy what I have. I won't be upgrading for 5 years or so.
 
I'm looking forward to a big leap in CPU technology.
The past few releases really hasn't wowed me into changing from my fairly old Haswell i7

I recently considered getting a Kaby lake set up to replace my current just because it's newer,
or an older x99 for the extra cores, but I just don't see many developers utilising the extra cores.
Benchmarks are all well & good but it's real world performance that I'm interested in.
 
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Probably Coffee Lake with a 6 core cpu (if that actually happens), or Gen2 of Ryzen if they have caught up completely and isn't buggy as hell for gaming.
 
HoneyBadger said:
I've kind of had enough now, I've been constantly upgrading since Haswell. Now I'm going to enjoy what I have. I won't be upgrading for 5 years or so.
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How comes you have been constantly upgrading since Haswell? Do you do video encoding or something CPU heavy? There has actually been hardly anything out since Haswell worth upgrading to for games or general use imo.

Like my pasty munching friend I will either get 7nm Ryzen if they do well in gaming or a 6 core intel CPU. But more than likely it will be an AMD CPU as I do not fancy giving Intel any more money if I can help it. They have been milking us badly with the absence of competition from AMD over the years...

But so far no one has even answered my original question. Seems no one considers those things when upgrading like I do :p
 
My next big upgrade will be driven by the graphics side. I'll be getting myself one of those 4K 144Hz screens and a GPU - probably Nvidia Volta - to push it. I'll also likely get one of those Calyos silent cases. But I won't be an early adopter - I'll wait a month or two for the early reports.
 
TNA said:
How comes you have been constantly upgrading since Haswell? Do you do video encoding or something CPU heavy? There has actually been hardly anything out since Haswell worth upgrading to for games or general use imo.

Like my pasty munching friend I will either get 7nm Ryzen if they do well in gaming or a 6 core intel CPU. But more than likely it will be an AMD CPU as I do not fancy giving Intel any more money if I can help it. They have been milking us badly with the absence of competition from AMD over the years...

But so far no one has even answered my original question. Seems no one considers those things when upgrading like I do :p
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Just had the bug! I run VM, program, game. I have never needed to upgrade, I have just be seduced by new shiny tech!

Not so much now, I've kinda realised that I'm spending thousands for very little gain. I've done Haswell, Haswell-e, skylake. Time to stop
 
HoneyBadger said:
Just had the bug! I run VM, program, game. I have never needed to upgrade, I have just be seduced by new shiny tech!

Not so much now, I've kinda realised that I'm spending thousands for very little gain. I've done Haswell, Haswell-e, skylake. Time to stop
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Very little gain indeed. That is why I have been stuck on my 4770K @ 4.7GHz for like nearly 4 years now. Every time a new CPU comes out and I look at the improvement, it is so minuscule that instead of seeing shiny, I see an expensive turd. lol :p

I do want an 8 core CPU though, but the time is still not right. 7nm Ryzen will be the perfect time. By then not only will it be better core for core than what I have, but there will be games that use all 8 cores :)
 
I'm waiting for Zen to become stable so probably Zen+ or Cannon/Coffee Lake, I want a platform that is bug free and memory overclocking to be fine with at least 6c/12t with decent IPC. Zen looks great but needs optimization which is fine being it's a brand new platform but i feel Zen+ will be where the good stuff is at, paired with a 2018/2019 AMD card I should be set nicely for the next Battlefield, 3570k screams even at 4.5Ghz in 64 player battles.
 
pandem0nium said:
Vega + 4k 144hz freesync 2 (HDR)
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Yeah, that is what I would like also. Then next Zen+ 7nm with a mobo that supports PCIe 4 :)

I am wondering if I will go for 32GB of RAM this time. Went 16GB 4 years ago. So might as well go 32GB if Vega will actually make use of it :)
 
Looking forward to Volta and 7nm Ryzen. Quad core has been around for so long it's about time we had affordable 6/8 core CPUs made for desktops.
 
With the news about DDR5 RAM yesterday, I am wondering if I should hold out and get a DDR5 mobo in 2020. Only two and a half to three years away. If 7nm Ryzen gets delayed, it will probably come out around the same time :p
 
I'd actually love to see faster sata ports. I don't like having to use pcie lanes for storage drives, because I'd prefer to use them for gpus. Especially with Ryzen a bit short on lanes compared to x99 chips. Sata is a huge bottleneck for SSDs so this would be a good way to free up pcie ports/lanes.
 
I'm just waiting for Ryzen to have all the bugs sorted out, if that doesn't happen and I need a upgrade badly then it'll probably be second hand Skylake.
 
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