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

[Jacky60]

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.

 

[Jacky60]

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).

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]

X58 donkey's years old and still smashes through latest games with the xeon

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]

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....

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!