When do you plan to upgrade your Graphics Card?

[old gamer]

Happy enough with my Vega 56 and would like to think it would last a few years, but I know if Navi drops I will be all over it like a rash.
I always thought as I got older I would be more sensible not more silly

 

[iB CoMpL3XiTy]

I don't feel there's a good enough upgrade from a Fury-X, I'd want to keep freesync so green team isn't an option unfortunately.

I'm quite happy to reduce settings if needed. Having said that if there was a game I wanted to play and had to compromise a lot on visuals (for example having to reduce the resolution) then I'd take a second look at what's available.

 

[ljt]

Given up even thinking about upgrading for the foreseeable future. It's not just GPU's that are overpriced. RAM is extortionate, SSD's are overpriced, Monitors are ridiculous money for the quality you get.

It's left me disheartened with the PC space now. It looks like things are only going to get worse due to multiple factors.

I read recently that the main silicon manufacturer said they are upping their prices 20% "because they can"

RAM with it's manufactured "shortages" to artificially inflate prices, thus increasing the price of every component that uses them, i.e. SSD/GPU

Coupled with the fact a lot of people are obviously willing to pay these inflated prices means that a clear message has been sent to the companies that they can get away with charging extra, so why would they want to lower them?

I'm not willing to play a long with this blatant overpricing of PC components, so I'm now investing far more of my time in consoles

 

[monkentage]

Not within the 5 year warranty of my 980ti. Bonkers pricing.

 

[Rroff]

Had my GTX1070 nearly 18 months - not really feeling a need to upgrade but will probably once proper replacements are out for Pascal. I'm in a bit of an odd position as financially spending £1000 or whatever on a GPU isn't a problem but the current kind of prices make me feel like a mug for spending the amount of money for what you get - so it will depend on what deals are on and when probably - got my 1070 way below current prices even.

 

[x-st]

I'd intended to get a new PC this Autumn/Winter but with prices as they are I'm holding off as long as I can and have moved to PS3 games instead (which can be had cheap these days!). Hopefully things will improve in the Spring/Summer of 2018?

 

[Telecaster]

I don't currently have one, I can't decide how much I want to spend or what res I want to game at. It would need some major rearranging of stuff in the spare room and I'm not sure I can even be arsed to do it to be honest.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I might if theres any good black Fridays deals on them.

 

[Mr Badger]

1080 with my faithful 2500k CPU and I can easily imagine still using this in another year or two unless there is a big improvement in price/performance.

 

[DELETED_195422]

Another factor would be that i don't play many AAA games now, due to the BS that comes with it. A lot of consumers are disillusioned with the AAA market just now. You could say it's mostly this market that drives the sales of GPU's as these titles need the grunt to run them properly. If the AAA market continues to be a ****show, it could effect sales of GPU's in the long term.

I'm not willing to play a long with this blatant overpricing of PC components, so I'm now investing far more of my time in consoles

This is a huge concern as well. It's definitely driving some away from the PC market. Regarding consoles, i thought about going back once the next gen systems come out. But in reality, this isn't going to happen. Mainly because:

1) i like all my games to run at high frames rates. Even next gen consoles won't offer this as it's always been image quality over frame rate for these systems.

2) I hate physical media and value space in my house more. Going digital only on consoles is extortionate, it's not even an option, plus i'm mainly stuck buying my games at one store (PSN/Microsoft Store/Eshop), etc). On PC, there are multiple online shops where i can buy games. It's hugely competitive, which is great. Also being able to refund your digital purchases is a big deal, on consoles i know Sony/Nintendo don't offer it.

3) On PC backwards compatibility is unparalleled.

4) I've got over 400 games on PC. I'd need to start my library over again if i went back to consoles. Plus it would cost more (as stated in my second point).

5) I'm not convinced of the longevity of PSN/Xbox/Eshop. Going all digital on consoles is a huge risk. Nintendo are notorious for closing services down i.e. DS store, Wii Store, Miiverse, it's only a matter of time when they close the Wii U/3DS stores. Also, the PlayStation brand is the only thing that's keeping Sony afloat (oh that and their insurance market). Microsoft aren't any better and wouldn't think twice of stopping a service at the flick of a switch i.e. GFWL.

On PC, my purchases feel safer and if anything did shutdown, i could download my games through other means.

So aye, weighing up the pros and cons of each platforms, i came to the conclusion that consoles are obsolete purchases from a personal standpoint.

PC components are at a higher cost than everybody would like just now. But, i honestly believe in the years to come that'll change for the better and components will get cheaper.

 

[kration]

I have a 290 that I bought on release, I still only game at 1080p 60hz but I do mostly play VR titles now, amazingly the 290 hasn’t skipped a beat in VR despite it being the minimum requirement. I do want to play my ‘pancake’ games on 4K eventually, But I’ll only upgrade when a GPU can handle 4K properly that releases around the £350 mark

I was in the same position - I was really pleased with how well the 290 handled VR. I've upgraded to a 1080ti and noticed quite a bit of improvement, but not to the point where I'd have been disappointed if I'd stayed with the 290.

In terms of a next upgrade, I'm going to see what the requirements for the next gen of VR are. Probably look at upgrading my whole system then.

 

[.:MBK:.]

im getting an itch after having my 390 for 2 years now, but at current prices it is a hard expense to justify.

 

[jigger]

I've been ready to upgrade for a while now. Still waiting for the right hardware at the right price and then I'll upgrade depending how happy I am with the Xbox One X.

 

[rolypolyman]

Boy have I had my monies worth out of my 980ti, £539.99 a long time ago. The 1080ti was and still is not viable because of the cost and just about everything else is not an upgrade. So no upgrade at the current crazy prices.

 

[Raiden85]

I won't be upgrading for quite a while as GPU prices are getting ridiculous, even RAM is getting extortionate. Picked up my current 32GB Corsair LPX DDR3 3000mhz (2x 16gb) a few months back brand new at £170, now they are over £300/£350!!!

1080 Ti's in SLI should last quite a while though even gaming at 4K, plenty of VRAM to spare as well.

 

[Marine-RX179]

I spent my money on a Acer 34" Freesync 21:9 3440x1440 monitor June last year instead when Nvidia 's "mid-range chip" GTX1080 came out at a rip-off price of £600+

 

[Wrinkly]

Using a 1080Ti FTW3. I don't see Volta being much of an upgrade if indeed we even get Volta. I feel we may just get a node shrunk Pascal with GDDR6 next. So at the moment ~2+ years as I am looking to skip the next Ti.

 

[EsaT]

Given up even thinking about upgrading for the foreseeable future. It's not just GPU's that are overpriced. RAM is extortionate, SSD's are overpriced, Monitors are ridiculous money for the quality you get.

It's left me disheartened with the PC space now. It looks like things are only going to get worse due to multiple factors.

I read recently that the main silicon manufacturer said they are upping their prices 20% "because they can"

RAM with it's manufactured "shortages" to artificially inflate prices, thus increasing the price of every component that uses them, i.e. SSD/GPU

Coupled with the fact a lot of people are obviously willing to pay these inflated prices means that a clear message has been sent to the companies that they can get away with charging extra, so why would they want to lower them?

I'm not willing to play a long with this blatant overpricing of PC components, so I'm now investing far more of my time in consoles

You forgot race of motherboard makers to have more and more expensive bling bling models.

Pretty much only area in PC's where there's proper competition is CPUs with Ryzen giving Intel nice kick to butt to to get things moving forward.

Though also in PSUs situation is now good with Seasonic Focus Plus offering top performance at good price, unlike many of their earlier PSUs.
(design was clearly made with manufacturing in mind with clear layout and well spaced components)

 

[Telecaster]

Just picked up a barely used PS3 with some games for £90, this will probably keep me going through the winter and I'll decide what to do next year.

 

[Gregster]

Probably when the next **80Ti comes out.