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Anyone else disappointed that your mid range rig from yesteryear still kicks ass?

It's a reasonable question, and the same reason people want new consoles. I am dissapointed new gen isn't pushing the envelope more...but it's good enough.
 
Can't say I have money enough to be disappointed by the fact that I don't have to spend more money.
 
I'm disappointed that there aren't any GPUs or CPUs that offer so much value that it would be stupid not to upgrade. So I'm kind of stuck with hardware that does the job, but not spectacularly well. I don't want to go high end if I don't have to because the prices are outrageous.

But on the plus side, I don't have to upgrade, so that money stays in my pocket.
 
Nope, I'm actually impressed how well the rig I built in summer '12 seems to be holding up. I've yet to find anything that I'm interested in playing that a 670, i5, and 8gb of ram can't handle.

I'm more than okay with not having to spend money if I don't have too.
 
I am disappointed for 2 reasons. The first is that I am in the semi-cap industry so a healthy PC market means a healthy equipment market which means better raises and bonuses. Clearly technology is not advancing fast enough to compel people to by new PCs. The second is that I like to build a new PC every 2 years or so but I cannot justify the cost to do so because the performance gains are not there. So lack of significant improvement is both costing me money and saving me some.
 
flyinpiranha said:
I was not expecting a huge jump in graphics the first few months of the console anyway. Also wasn't expecting 1080p/60fps. So ... not really. I imagine the real graphic monsters are a year away at least once the 360/PS3 are out of the picture.

I'm still going to wait a bit for my GPU upgrade, my i5-3570k and 8 Gb DDR3 can last a while I'm thinking. Just want to wait for a decent 4Gb card to come down to the $200-300 mark.

I'm also not disappointed in the PS4. ACIV looks amazing on it. It's a great jump from PS3 > PS4. If you were expecting PS4 to be better than mid/high range current PC games ... not sure why.
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well last gen, 360 was top of the line stuff. I understand the reasoning, but you just can't help absorbing a bit of hype train.

sell me on buying a new console, or a new gpu or something.

hmmmm i guess another factor is I finally got out of college and got a well paying job last year... now im just waiting for somebody to sell me on something... which is strangely enough not happening O.o

nvidia seems to only care about mobile these days, amd cards are mining doge, every next gen console/game news thread is bummer news...
 
If I was high end and had the luxury of constantly getting the best I'd be disappointed... or seeing how many G-Sync monitors I can string together before giving up. As is I'm pretty happy I can keep on going with my 560 Ti for now.
 
Games are a lot more scaleable now though. You can always increase resolution/framerate/AA even if you've maxed out everything else, and those go a long way in determining how good a game looks.
 
I got a 7970 Ghz and a 4770k, I do not plan on upping my gpu for at least another two gpu generation cycles. Plus I play at 1080p only so I'm not pushing a really high resolution either.
 
My PC I built 4 years ago with only upgrading the gpu still plays all games maxed out relatively easily. The i7-920 was/is a fantastic cpu with so much leg room.

That said, just yesterday I built a i7-4770k/GTX 780/8gb Ripjaw build and I know I'll be good for another 4-5 years. I'm excited to see the console devs stretch their legs and start pushing things, inevitably making PC games look better and better. It's great all around.
 
This is not 2005 anymore. The 360 was a beast back in the day. Now we have the PS4 which is decent and the bone is straight ass.
 
Speevy said:
I'm disappointed that such a transparent dig at current gen. consoles is getting sincere responses.
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Yes. Consoles have feelings too.


I'm disappointed that physics effects in games are a gimmick no one cares about, and that consoles aren't quick enough to push fancy physics further.
 
danwarb said:
Yes. Consoles have feelings too.


I'm disappointed that physics effects in games are a gimmick no one cares about, and that consoles aren't quick enough to push fancy physics further.
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The fact PhysX was one of the leaders there but bought by nVidia and only runs REALLY well on their hardware is part of the problem I think. I understand you want to have a competitive edge, but that should probably be saved for stuff that doesn't need to be designed around, like Shield streaming or G-Sync. Something like that just fractures the market and rather than constant, good use of PhysX we get mostly gimmicky applications like in the Arkham games.
 
My $200 GPU from 2 years ago still kicks major ass, I could run this thing for a few more years with just another $200 GPU and that is cool.
 
Not really, the way I see it, this leaves more money to buy games.
That I never play.
I'm more disappointed that some guys are still uninformed and assume that you have to spend thousands of dollars yearly, to be able to play on PC.
 
VoidZero said:
Not really, the way I see it, this leaves more money to buy games.
That I never play.
I'm more disappointed that some guys are still uninformed and assume that you have to spend thousands of dollars yearly, to be able to play on PC.
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It's still more expensive than a console admittedly, but you get what you pay for. Especially as a $1000 computer can be very nice now, and way over that's more for enthusiasts that want to SLI and get other goodies.
 
Draft said:
My PC is a relic. The processor is a Core 2 Quad Q6600. The video card is a Radeon 4870 w/ 512 whole megs of video ram. It STILL runs pretty much everything at 1080p. It's at medium, sometimes even low, and nowhere near 60fps, but damn if that thing is still not happily chewing up stuff like Tomb Raider 2013.

It's a golden age for cheap ass gaming.
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KHlover said:
I still use a HD4850 (1GB) and a Core2Duo E8500 (overclocked to 4GHz) with 8GB RAM. About 5 years old.

Still played most games with high details. A few weeks ago I bought a new TV and decided to use my old 25" HDTV as a new monitor (used 1280x1024 before). Expected I'd have to turn some settings down. Lol nope.

Saved so much money, it's amazing *_*
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Yeah, the bolded are good cards, and I'm running an even lower end DX10 laptop that's around the same ballpark myself which handles most games well enough at lower settings but with the advent of next gen and games that require DX 11 only cards as a minimum, you're gonna have upgrade them soon.

There are already at least 2 games on the market that already have the DX11 hardware requirement as the cutoff point, Crysis 3 and Strider. The former being justified, and the latter not so.
 
Nothing has brought down my 5870 to the point where I am compelled to upgrade.

I thought I would be building a new PC around the new year but still don't see the need. I'm really happy though, this thing has been kicking for 4 years at this point or something.

I'll be excited to get into better looking games that are ports, but I'm going to need to upgrade and come summer I will be in a better position to do that. I'm hoping to hold off until then.
 
idk, my gtx 580 is starting to show its age a bit. Recommended settings for me on Titanfall were pretty much medium/high. I think once devs start only focusing on next gen games, that's when we'll see bigger pushes in hardware. Hopefully my current rig can hold out for another year or 2 until ddr4 is out and nvdia finally stops refreshing Kepler cards
 
I was stunned my 6770 was running Titanfall 40+ FPS on max settings with MSAA x 2 @ 900p. Was very smooth. Hit 60 a lot of times but Titan combat hit the 40s and 30s occasionally.

I will upgrade once Star Citizen hits.
 
Eusis said:
It's still more expensive than a console admittedly, but you get what you pay for. Especially as a $1000 computer can be very nice now, and way over that's more for enthusiasts that want to SLI and get other goodies.
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Games are usually a little bit cheaper and you don't have to pay for online services.
If you also take into consideration that a computer, can do more than just gaming. The price/performance of a computer is actually great.
 
I'm dissapointed that next generation of GPUs isn't here already because if i changed my monitor to 1440p then my gtx 770 would strugle to mantain always 60+ fps.
 
It's nice to be able to run the base game on older hardware

I do wish for more games that let you dial stuff up to 11 in a meaningful way (draw distance, LOD settings, stuff like volumetric smoke and cool alpha effects) if you have the hardware to run it at those settings

there are some that let you but none of the multiplatform games do and they all look really last gen
I think tomb raider was one exception with way more geometry detail on max settings than the console versions and it looked pretty amazing at times

I can't wait for some proper realtime GI with multiple bounces in pc games though, that won't run on older hardware at all but it'll be soooo worth it from a visual standpoint
 
Is disappointed the right word? It's certainly SOMETHING. I bought a 7870 last year to replace my 5770 not because I had to... but because I wanted to which is a first for PC upgrades for me in a very very VERY long time. Even then, I had to upgrade to at least a 7850 to see a real performance difference as most reviews put the 7770 at about the same speed as the 5770.
 
I feel stupid for buying a 760 4GB ... for 300 now these games will come out and won't play the way I want them...graphics cards are ridiculous.
 
I have a 670, i5 3570K, 8 gig ram. I want to get at least a couple more years out of this computer without having to upgrade anything (except ram, probably).

What are my chances?
 
VoidZero said:
Games are usually a little bit cheaper and you don't have to pay for online services.
If you also take into consideration that a computer, can do more than just gaming. The price/performance of a computer is actually great.
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The price angle is evening out honestly, doubly so on Playstation where a Plus subscription doesn't just give online play access but a bunch of free games (though for now most of those are PS3 titles understandably, and XBL Gold does offer two a month) but it's more frequent and easier to get good deals on games on PC and I suspect more likely games just end up forgotten on consoles eventually when it comes to sales. How often do you even see PSP sales that aren't Atlus games now? At least with Steam's big sales ancient games may get a solid discount through the sale.
 
Not dissapointed but I'm kinda glad my crappy AMD FX4 and 6700GPU can run stuff like Castlevania 2 @1080p and mostly max settings (not ambient occlusion) just fine. Yet at the same time cannot fucking run half of the PS2 emulator games at playable settings lol.

When I do upgrade its going to be for all the extra effects like physics and glowy bits. At the moment though, looks just fine to me.
 
Nope, I'm very happy. I usually upgrade every 3 years, but at this rate I may try for 4.

When I made my PC I went for cheap stuff and OC'd the crap out of it, an AMD X3 450 CPU that unlocked to be an X4 at just shy of 4ghz, a GTX 480 bought as clearance which is running at 850/2000 (slightly faster than a 580) and 8GB of cheap 1333 ram running at 1666.
 
fuck the police,
turn off all shadows, post processing, bloom, blur, etc run it at medium textures 720p with a dual core and 8800gt

power though next gen in style
 
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