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So, a tiny bit of backstory.
About 14 months ago I saved up £700 to spend on a gaming pc. I spent days reading and researching, clue-ing myself up on hardware and eventually arrived at this build. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=23162328
To cut a really long story short, I didn't end up buying the computer, and here I am again with some money saved up and I've got the itch to build a rig.
My question is basically what has changed?
When I last looked gaming and graphics were taking huge leaps forward, Crysis 3 was looking to be the most demanding and graphically intense thing to build towards, it's a year later now and I don't actually see anything changing?
There is a whole floodload of new AMD cards (by the looks of things, "R7 or R9 etc looks completely alien to me) but has anything really changed that would warrant my old build being dated and not viable any more?
If games have not developed much this last year, would "dated" hardware such as 7850/7870/7950 etc fall short of anything in particular? Some of this stuff is going relatively cheap it seems.
TL;DR
What's new in hardware/graphics/games in the last year that would lead me to reconsider/re-research and re-"design" a custom PC from last year.
If anybody wants to help out even further, pointing me in the right direction/suggestions for hardware at good prices would be fantastic!
Many many thanks!
About 14 months ago I saved up £700 to spend on a gaming pc. I spent days reading and researching, clue-ing myself up on hardware and eventually arrived at this build. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=23162328
To cut a really long story short, I didn't end up buying the computer, and here I am again with some money saved up and I've got the itch to build a rig.
My question is basically what has changed?
When I last looked gaming and graphics were taking huge leaps forward, Crysis 3 was looking to be the most demanding and graphically intense thing to build towards, it's a year later now and I don't actually see anything changing?
There is a whole floodload of new AMD cards (by the looks of things, "R7 or R9 etc looks completely alien to me) but has anything really changed that would warrant my old build being dated and not viable any more?
If games have not developed much this last year, would "dated" hardware such as 7850/7870/7950 etc fall short of anything in particular? Some of this stuff is going relatively cheap it seems.
TL;DR
What's new in hardware/graphics/games in the last year that would lead me to reconsider/re-research and re-"design" a custom PC from last year.
If anybody wants to help out even further, pointing me in the right direction/suggestions for hardware at good prices would be fantastic!
Many many thanks!
