Yeah, Battlebit looks pretty sweet, might have to pick it up at some point.
I'm also thinking of building a new computer after over a decade, though, and would feel a little silly playing an intentionally low-poly game on a super computer. Not that that would stop me from doing it!
I do have to find some visually impressive games to play too, though, if I do pull the trigger. I got Cyberpunk for free a while back, so that's on the list, and if I do end up getting the components I'm looking at I'll get Starfield for free too. It's an exciting prospect, it's been ages since I've had anything approaching a midrange machine, much less nearly top of the line.
Yeah, I'm not one hundred percent locked in on the super high-end machine, but I'm contemplating it. I would like one of the newest gen GPUs for once, but I'm still looking at other options too. One way I can justify such a thing is, I generally don't upgrade my computer much, so I'm looking at this as something I'll keep around for ten years or so again (currently running an i7-4790k and GTX 970 for reference.)
I realize high end is overkill, but it could be fun overkill nonetheless. I agree it would probably make more sense to go midrange and upgrade in five to seven years or so, but I might still go high end and keep it around longer. I'm looking at the RX 7900 XTX which is right near the top of all cards, while being significantly cheaper than Nvidia's offerings (not that that's saying much.) It's also got massive overkill VRAM, so should be somewhat future proof. Also, if support continues to improve, it could theoretically eventually outperform the few RTX cards that currently beat it. Not the 4090, but it could slide into second place.
And, no, I don't plan to water cool, that's generally pretty dang unnecessary, and I don't have the patience for it anyway. I also stream sometimes, and the current gen GPUs have some nice encoding options, especially once AV1 gets more widespread support, which seems to be the trend. So yeah, I know it's more than I need, but I might do it anyway, and hopefully be set for the next decade.
High end is gonna cost you 2.5k. Rtx 4090 is 1600usd or 7900xtx is 1000usd. CPU+mobo+ram+cpu cooler will cost another 1000usd. Then you have power supply, ssd, case....
Closer to $2k, and a solid midrange would be around $1.3k. Not a huge difference, especially if I could be happy with keeping the high end twice as long.
If I can view it in per year terms, I can totally trick myself into justifying it! I'm basically saving money!
Could pay half that for a 3090, game tech is probably never going to advance to a point where a 3090 can't handle any game you throw at it unless LK-99 turns out to be a real superconductor and CPUs pretty much don't factor into game performance at all anymore.
Yeah, Battlebit looks pretty sweet, might have to pick it up at some point.
I'm also thinking of building a new computer after over a decade, though, and would feel a little silly playing an intentionally low-poly game on a super computer. Not that that would stop me from doing it!
I do have to find some visually impressive games to play too, though, if I do pull the trigger. I got Cyberpunk for free a while back, so that's on the list, and if I do end up getting the components I'm looking at I'll get Starfield for free too. It's an exciting prospect, it's been ages since I've had anything approaching a midrange machine, much less nearly top of the line.
Yeah, I'm not one hundred percent locked in on the super high-end machine, but I'm contemplating it. I would like one of the newest gen GPUs for once, but I'm still looking at other options too. One way I can justify such a thing is, I generally don't upgrade my computer much, so I'm looking at this as something I'll keep around for ten years or so again (currently running an i7-4790k and GTX 970 for reference.)
I realize high end is overkill, but it could be fun overkill nonetheless. I agree it would probably make more sense to go midrange and upgrade in five to seven years or so, but I might still go high end and keep it around longer. I'm looking at the RX 7900 XTX which is right near the top of all cards, while being significantly cheaper than Nvidia's offerings (not that that's saying much.) It's also got massive overkill VRAM, so should be somewhat future proof. Also, if support continues to improve, it could theoretically eventually outperform the few RTX cards that currently beat it. Not the 4090, but it could slide into second place.
And, no, I don't plan to water cool, that's generally pretty dang unnecessary, and I don't have the patience for it anyway. I also stream sometimes, and the current gen GPUs have some nice encoding options, especially once AV1 gets more widespread support, which seems to be the trend. So yeah, I know it's more than I need, but I might do it anyway, and hopefully be set for the next decade.
High end is gonna cost you 2.5k. Rtx 4090 is 1600usd or 7900xtx is 1000usd. CPU+mobo+ram+cpu cooler will cost another 1000usd. Then you have power supply, ssd, case....
Closer to $2k, and a solid midrange would be around $1.3k. Not a huge difference, especially if I could be happy with keeping the high end twice as long.
If I can view it in per year terms, I can totally trick myself into justifying it! I'm basically saving money!
...Right?
Could pay half that for a 3090, game tech is probably never going to advance to a point where a 3090 can't handle any game you throw at it unless LK-99 turns out to be a real superconductor and CPUs pretty much don't factor into game performance at all anymore.
I ran Mad Max at 4K on my old Superclocked GTX 1080 some years ago.
That game is extremely well optimised and Avalanche did an amazing job with it, both visually and on a technical level.