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What's the longest your rig served at the high end/stayed relevant in gaming.

Jacky60

Jacky60

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I'm asking because my current rig in the sig is still killing it and I'm doubtful whether I'll bother upgrading for Ryzen 4000 or Ampere RDNA 2. Yes I know the 5960X was super expensive and I wouldn't have bought it if I hadn't inherited a little money from an aunt but it still rocks to the extent I'm still GPU limited at 4K.
1080ti SLI is still crushing it and before everyone says "SLI is dead" I watched this today and was bowled over how the performance is still there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoF-xCGS2-w. The GPUs are over three years old and the CPU 5 years. So 3+ years staying at the very high end. It's way longer than any other combo I've owned, especially the CPU. I guess stagnation and lack of competition has led to this but still I'm elated it still rocks.
 
My previous set up lasted 5 years (6700k and 980Ti, then 1070). Still using the 1070 until new cards arrive.

Mainly used for games so no need to change CPU during that time frame. Graphics card similarly fine.
 
My old 3570k and gtx 680 SLI, worked pretty well up until 2018 when 2gb vram was no long relevant. Switched to sli 980ti but again hit a wall pretty much straight away so switched to single card 2070 super then 2080.

The old 3570k lasted me a good 4 years and tbh it would still be fine today for general use and not gaming.
 
It seems like every system I have had lasts or has the potential to remain as is for ages, though possibly the very longest was when first moving to a quadcore CPU (Q6600) and relevant GPU of the time (maybe the 4870X2).
 
arc@css said:
It seems like every system I have had lasts or has the potential to remain as is for ages, though possibly the very longest was when first moving to a quadcore CPU (Q6600) and relevant GPU of the time (maybe the 4870X2).
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Ah i remember those... seems like a long time ago haha! Back in the day before the core i3,i5,i7 came along and gave us mediocre ipc increases :p
 
Jay85 said:
Ah i remember those... seems like a long time ago haha! Back in the day before the core i3,i5,i7 came along and gave us mediocre ipc increases :p
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The second i5/7 series delivered a big boost, didn't it (sandy bridge)? Otherwise, yeah, some small gains in comparison with previous generations. :)
 
arc@css said:
It seems like every system I have had lasts or has the potential to remain as is for ages, though possibly the very longest was when first moving to a quadcore CPU (Q6600) and relevant GPU of the time (maybe the 4870X2).
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That does sound like a really advanced rig for it's time, quadcore Q6600 and dual GPU card with 4x vram of single card would have been waiting for the rest of the world to catch up!
 
Jacky60 said:
That does sound like a really advanced rig for it's time, quadcore Q6600 and dual GPU card with 4x vram of single card would have been waiting for the rest of the world to catch up!
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I think there were other, faster quads out at the time like the Q9550 and QX9650, but it was a plucky microprocessor! :)
 
arc@css said:
The second i5/7 series delivered a big boost, didn't it (sandy bridge)? Otherwise, yeah, some small gains in comparison with previous generations. :)
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Ah yeah! it did you're right! The 2500k i5 and 2600k i7 was a really good cpu for its time. After the 3570k is when it really dropped off.
 
My current 4820K is the longest I've kept a base system and it has still held up performance wise. Though it has seen several GPUs since I built it.

arc@css said:
I think there were other, faster quads out at the time like the Q9550 and QX9650, but it was a plucky microprocessor! :)
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Q6600 did really well but if you paired a Q9550 up with some high spec RAM it would annihilate it - the Q6600 didn't seem to benefit as greatly from faster RAM.
 
wedrum said:
X58 donkey's years old and still smashes through latest games with the xeon
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I tried to resurrect my 920 as have spare case, SSDs and PSU etc. Was going to experiment with it in living room with 1080ti but I stupidly bought the smallest case corsair case known to man
and the 1080ti is about 3 inches too long, there's an HD cage in the way.
Think I'll take an angle grinder to it tomorrow as the case is next to useless otherwise. I have a Xeon too just need to flash the bios.
 
Jacky60 said:
I'm asking because my current rig in the sig is still killing it and I'm doubtful whether I'll bother upgrading for Ryzen 4000 or Ampere RDNA 2. Yes I know the 5960X was super expensive and I wouldn't have bought it if I hadn't inherited a little money from an aunt but it still rocks to the extent I'm still GPU limited at 4K.
1080ti SLI is still crushing it and before everyone says "SLI is dead" I watched this today and was bowled over how the performance is still there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoF-xCGS2-w. The GPUs are over three years old and the CPU 5 years. So 3+ years staying at the very high end. It's way longer than any other combo I've owned, especially the CPU. I guess stagnation and lack of competition has led to this but still I'm elated it still rocks.
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Pleased to read this given I've just bagged a second 1080ti for SLI with my current 4790k & 4K screen, tbh it rocks pretty much whatever I throw at it already, having tried a mates 1080ti in SLI I decided to go for one as it still - despite what people say - gives one hell of a boost in the majority of games that I play especially @ 4K.

Having watched the video in your link, I noticed the max power draw for SLI 1080ti's is 821W, - I've got a Corsair HX 850, plus 8 hard drives, Soundcard, Optical drive and Watercooling.....

Think I may be buying a new PSU very soon.... :o :D
 
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Scania said:
Pleased to read this given I've just bagged a second 1080ti for SLI with my current 4790k & 4K screen, tbh it rocks pretty much whatever I throw at it already, having tried a mates 1080ti in SLI I decided to go for one as it still - despite what people say - gives one hell of a boost in the majority of games that I play especially @ 4K.

Having watched the video in your link, I noticed the max power draw for SLI 1080ti's is 821W, - I've got a Corsair HX 850, plus 8 hard drives, Soundcard, Optical drive and Watercooling.....

Think I may be buying a new PSU very soon.... :o :D
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Yes, they do chew through power both mine will hold 1924+mhz in games though and I reinstalled GTA 5, the witcher 3 and having played only world of warships for months was amazed at how good they look. I'd forgotten how much eye candy they can dish out at 4k ultra 60+ fps. It's partly what made me post the rig longevity thread. Thankfully I have 1600W PSU thanks to my superheated 295x2 quadfire days. The Radeons actually crashed my 1100W G2 which shows how thirsty they were. You may well need a new PSU but EVGA G2 have or did have 10 year warranty!
 
My current i7-4790 and 1070ti.

I’ll likely run it until it’s useless, I’m not gaming much anymore anyway, and the only game im interested in the future is Star Citizen, if it lives up to its promise I’ll build a new one when it hits beta
 
Over 5 years now, still going strong to be honest. Upgarded SSD/memory/GPU over this time period. CPU struggles sometimes cause it's 4/4
 
Have a couple of setups.

One in sig is primary one, 7980XE still demolishes everything as it overclocks like a champ. With trio of 1080Ti's similarly demolish everything. Its pretty fun when I can be bothered to get triple SLI working in some games via nvidia inspector. Not planning to change any time soon as I primarily do not game massively on the rig any longer outside of east to run games and I no longer have same workload as prior which was primary purpose of rig. That said aware newer hardware is cheaper and more power efficent, when under load, gawd power use is massive, often go above 1.5kw with all in use. That said, would not personally recommend anyone opt for SLI with stronger single cards out unless the games they are planning to play / use case is tilted to favour SLI.

My other rig which is my main gaming rig also has a 1080Ti in it, However that one is hooked up to a 4k OLED which is capable of 120hz, that 1080ti will be switched out with next gen.

Others items which I liked, 4790k was a lovely CPU, my 5960x similarly had a soft spot.
 
X58 for 9 years before jumping to ryzen. Started life with a i7 950 then swapped to a Xeon X5670 which at around 4.5ghz performed quite well in games @1440p and was only a few fps off the ryzen 5 3600 although the ryzen did improve 1% lows a fare bit.
 
Still using X58 with overclocked 920 D0 - only updated the system to SSD + 1080GTX - still running everything I want to play at playable frame rate
 
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