When did you realize it was retarded to continuously upgrade

When did you realize it was retarded to continuously upgrade your console and you should buy a PC instead?

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Hey gang, is it time for me to upgrade my computer?

>>377814976
I can update my console once every 8 or so years, or my PC every few months.

>being one of the retarded sperglords who constantly upgrade PC and doesn't build a solid build
>just like carfags who insist on replacing one part at a time until their car becomes this untimed piece of shit where things crap out one after another in sequence
>instead of just building a whole deal and riding with that
>buying multiple parts constantly

I'unno man, people who do that are pretty fucked up. I bought my build back in 2010, assembled it, and I only had to buy a new graphics card because I spilled soda on it last year. And one tube of thermal paste. Literally two things.

>OP says, with the PS4 pro out and the scorpio upcoming
lel fuck off

>>377814823
The last time I upgraded my computer was in 2012 and it's still far more powerful than PS4.
I have nothing against consoles by the way, I own about 20 of them, they just don't replace PC in any way. Just like PC doesn't replace consoles

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Idort is the best option. Anything else is poorfag.

I need to upgrade my PC though, I've been neglecting it since i've just been playing new releases on my pro lately. been thinking of getting a 1060. That'll probably hold me up in most of the recent releases, stuff like for honor, prey, bannerlord when/if it comes out, yeah?

Also need a new cpu, thinking to get an i7, not sure what model, thinking just a 7700k.

>>377814991
nah you're good.

>>377814991
Might want to downgrade to a 720p monitor with that build, jesus.

Get a good processor, mobo, and a videocard. You probably can salvage your RAM until you get better.

>>377815181
Are you just buying cheap old shit? Even a 970 is still a viable card for 1080p gaming and that came out 3 years ago

>tfw have a job and own all the consoles, a 65in 4k/hdr TV, and upgrade my pc every other year.

NEETS btfo

>tfw top 1% specs and PS4

Considering a Wii U, but I'm uncertain. Might be cool tho, since every time we play Smash at pre-parties shit gets wild as fuck.

>>377815507
Just get a switch. All the worthwhile wii u games are going to come to it anyway. Smash 4 Switch is fucking inevitable at e3

>>377814823
Bought my pc 4 years ago using 5 year old parts. It still plays all modern games at 30+ fps. Which is better than modern ps4 pro can do haha stay shit console fags

>>377815267
What good does it for you if it's "far more powerful than PS4" if the games run like dog shit on it because developers can't be assed to optimize, while on the PS4 you can be sure the game is finetuned to take maximum advantage of the hardware, therefore in the end you will end up with much better performance on weaker hardware if you go console?

>>377815507
Just get a switch, there's absolutely zero reason to own a wii u, Nintendo abandoned it and are gonna put all the worthwhile shit on it

>>377814823
after doing builds and both gpu only lasted 2 years (of almost 24/7 use) despite being high-end.

>>377814823
>>377815181

Now you're just trolling.

>>377814823
last year

so glad I did

>>377815667
>>377815585
Thanks bros

>>377815492

55" 4k hdr here. Love my Android TV. Got PPSSPP and moonlight installed without need of sideload

>>377814823
never - i realised that games on consoles in sum cost more, and i could save a lot of bucks by pirating most of games and occasionally buying stuff i like (mostly multiplayer) on sale

>buying games at release
>buying brand new hardware
Hold back a couple of years until it's all cheap, it all works properly and you know exactly which games you want to play.
People who pay $60 for the latest games, and people who just have to have brand new hardware are baffling to me.
Don't pre-release order either; pick it up a year or two later for pocket change, all DLC included.

>>377815683
What the hell are you even saying?

>>377815867
>don't pre-order either
yeah then you end up with hitman, where if you didn't buy the game in the first year you missed it forever, because it's some always online bullshit.

>>377815867
Depends, there is no point in buying fighting games 1-2 years after release because nobody will play them online anymore (except if it's street fighter), or if you want to avoid having your shit spoilered. It has become substantially harder in the modern internet age to avoid spoilers than 10-15 years ago.

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>>377814823
2010
now i rip off underage faggots that want to be PEECEE MASTERRACE

>>377814823
I haven't upgraded any major component in 5 years and I'm still playing games at medium settings at 120fps at 1080p that come out recently.
You don't need to upgrade every year.

>>377815664
>if the games run like dog shit on it
By being far more powerful I mean powerful enough that everything actually runs and looks better on it. It's true that a PC like that is much more expensive than a PS4 Pro, and especially so considering I bought many of my parts years ago. Still, I think the versatality is easily worth it

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>>377815240
>lel

>>377815341
>Downgrade to a 720p monitor because muh Vidya
You can push windows at 1080 on a fucking toaster

Just turn down the resolution in-game tard

>>377815240
It should have ended here.

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>>377814823
>not having high end PC with HTC Vive
>all consoles except Wii and X1
>all handhelds
>Android phone for mobage's
It's like you hate playing games and having options

>>377815469
>970
3 . 5 G B
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>>377817534
memecard owner here, it's not as bad as it sounds
I'm able to max out Prey so that's good enough for me

I dont even game anymore but i want to upgrade my computer. fx8350 and hd7970. anyone else feel this way? it sucks too because theres no decent upgrade path for this build since replacing the cpu needs a new mobo and ram and most gpus are a bottleneck

>>377814991
Just get a 480 or 1060

>>377815181
Why would you upgrade your PC every few months?

>>377817687
save your $$ and start fresh with a new mobo and build

>>377817534
Doesn't change the fact that it's still viable for 1080p gaming on high settings

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i've never fell for the pc meme and i don't understand why people still do
if you want to play the mature shit then get the sony console
if you want to play nintendo shit then get the nintendo console
pc is only good for emulation

>>377817758
>Not throwing out your components every few months to keep your PC clean
Try not being a poorfag

>>377817873
What about if I want to play good video games?

>>377815321
>3gb ram
This trigger my autism

>>377817773
yeah of course. however it sucks that every modern x86_64 cpu has a built-in botnet. Pretty sure the 8350 is the highest spec without amt or whatever the amd equivalent is

>>377817936
>not purchasing parts at a discounted price by being a pro at haggling
>not reselling those parts a few months down the line at a standard price but offer to cover the delivery cost and make a tidy profit in the end
You're not gonna remain a richfag with that mindset boyo.

>>377818014
like what?
CS:GO and LoL? please

>>377814823
I bought a gtx 1080 around black friday last year and still to this day have not played any games that take full advantage of it because everything is just shit.

meanwhile, i got a ps4 for christmas and have been playing on it way more than PC games.

>>377817873
Because higher frame rate and resolutions make a big difference, going from dark souls to PS3 to PC with DSfix was mindblowing for me

>>377818014
get the nintendo console

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>>377817873
>can play almost every game in existence for free
>i've never fell for the pc meme and i don't understand why people still do
Get a load of this fag

>>377818141
>everything is shit

>uncharted and bloodborne are the second coming of christ

yeah sure you have a gtx 1080

kys consolefag

>>377815181
If you upgrade your PC every few months you're a moron.
>>377815321
You need to throw out your PC and start over. Nothing in there is worth saving.

>>377818121
no, I don't want to play that trash
got anything like say, thief 2 for example? I thought that was a good video game

A few days ago actually, when I looked into upgrading my processor and saw I would need to get a new mobo and aftermarket cooler as well as the processor. Would run me about $400 for a few extra pixels on my screen

>>377818365
Not him but I've only played Melty Blood and Street Fighter 5 this year on PC with similar set up. Everything else just is on consoles or handhelds that I'm interested in.

>>377818597
Probably also new RAM, but you can skip the cooler by going with the right CPU (that comes with one). Ryzen has good coolers.

Final cost similar anyways.

>>377818617
so you either play multiplats in shit quality for no reason, or you're some weeb faggot with absolute garbage taste in vidya

good for you

>>377818521
damn, you guys are so desperate for good games that you settle for playing a game from the early 00's

>>377818070
just find an old i7 or something then. unless you plan on living in a Faraday cage'd cave and build your own hardware you're not gonna have much luck keeping your data private in the near future.

>>377817359
>all consoles except Wii and X1
>and X1
>X1
>When the X1 actually has games and PS4 has absolutely nothing

>>377818737
Got me there. So what should I play on PC?

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>>377814823
All I cared about when upgrading was if I was able to play SDVX on my PC, now that I can play it perfectly I don't need to upgrade for a while

>>377818365
Honestly I don't believe anyone in these threads anymore that say they have high end PCs unless they post speccy because according to /v/ every other person here has a 1000+ dollar plus rig

>>377818832
Counterpoint: there hasn't been good vidja since the 2000s, minus a few errands abberations

>>377818597
If 400 bucks every 5 years is a problem for oyu, then consoles would indeed make more financial sense

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>>377818864
X1 doesn't have Nier:Automata, Tales of Berseria, God Eater, Fate/Extella or any other weebshit

>>377818141
I'm in the same boat, except haven't touched my PS4 since chrismas, thing has been workng as a stand for my Xbone.
Waiting for WipEout Omega Collection, and that is a PS3/VIta port too

>>377818894
>dude bloodborne and persona 5 are so good, but multiplats are cancer and PC exclusives dont exist just because their budgets are dwarfed by casual console trash played by the masses

just kill yourself, no one cares

>>377817873
>mature games aimed at 16yo kids
>like 95% worthwhile Ninty games can be played better on PC.
>Objectively better everything, from support to performance to graphics to options etc.
Alright man.

>>377818964
People with actual jobs do. Is it really so hard to imagine?

>>377819080
>"i have an actual job, so i spend every dollar i get on so many video game platforms because i have literally nothing else in my life, idort master race"

>>377818970
>le so jaded look at how cynical i am i hate new games xD

>>377818970
>there hasn't been good vidja, minus a few errands abberations

FTFY. Sturgeons law at work.

>>377818964
Most normal people have been using their 4-7 year old i7s and just swapping out meme gpus as needed. That's what I do, an unless I plan on going 4k retarded I'm going to be fine for a while swapping meme gpus. Learning to pick out a troll post is a lost art I guess.

>>377819080
It's pretty easy to show proof. Also this is /v/, most people on here are underage.

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>>377819065
I don't like Bloodborne nor have I player Persona 5 yet. I like some games on PC. Namely Street Fighter 5 because I have fighting stick that works with it.

Indie scene on PC is also way bigger which is a good thing. But I mostly like playing handhelds and that's a big reason why I haven't played much on PC.

Why so triggered? PC is just an another platform to play games on. Having options is always a good thing. Why gimp yourself to only one platform?

>>377818121

This. /thread

pc fags may never recover, archive this thread

The last time I upgraded was to play W3 at more than 20 fps, got a new i5 and a GTX 580 for pretty cheap
I think the 580 might be almost toaster tier already these days, but it's still running everything fine
I miss my 9800GTX though, that was an amazing card

>>377818832
>reading comprehension
Obviously I and likely a vast majority of pcfriends played T2 over a decade ago
If that's so dated now, what would you suggest?

>>377819202
See
>>377819207

I am but a babby in cynicism

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>>377815321
>Anything else is poorfag
>that image

>>377819201
That's me desu famalam

Do any games really warrant building a 1500+ machine? Good games on top of that by the way

>>377819235
because i dont waste an excessive amount of money on video games only to play handheld garbage and then act like my opinion matters

>>377819385
Just bullshit early access stuff that runs like garbage and maybe if you you want to be a memelord on twitch
It's also nice if you like to do heavy lifting like video encoding, moving a bunch of files around on networks (or media sharing), multitask like crazy, etc.

>>377819385
Of course not, you only need a top of the line PC for maximum grafix, which is retarded

>>377818981
Yeah I'm admittedly a poorfag now.

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>>377819552
this game never dips below 60fps at 1440p on ultra on a gtx 1060 6gb

>>377819385
If you're okay with 1080p 60fps - no way.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/VNfczM - That's about the limit what one can justify for a gaming machine. Everything else is not gaming, or chasing the high end.

>>377815321
Get a Ryzen 5 1600, 16GB of somewhat fast DDR4, a RX580 and you're good for a rather long time

>>377815651
You sir, are a liar
Even a QX6700 with a 6800 has trouble keeping good framerates in modern games with a decent resolution
Ofc, if you put everything on low/med, at 720p you can get 30 fps, but that's far away from actually experiencing "modern games"

>>377819660
Well if you wanna still be able to play the newest games, it's definitely better to buy a console in that case

>>377814991
Get a RX580 if you feel like you need more GPU power
Ryzen 1600 if you want to upgrade your CPU
But you don't really need to upgrade yet

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>>377819672

>>377819385
No, budget builds are very good today unless you want to play at native 4k at higher settings.

>>377819672
yeah no shit, it looks like a 2005 game

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>>377819396
Yeah, fuck me for actually liking video games

>>377814823
I haven't upgraded since 2012 and still don't need to.

Unless you count a new graphics card as upgrading.

Why do people keep perpetuating these memes? In the past 7 years, the only two components I've added to my PC have been one SSD and a replacing the gfx card. Jumping from the GTX580 to a 980Ti.

>>377819829
What the fuck is that? Red Orchestra 2 and then Vietnam screen grabs? As an aside that game runs like hot fucking dogshit considering how it looks. I'm not surprised you need $1000+ of PC Gaymin equipment to make it play at max settings.

>>377820009
>Jumping from the GTX580 to a 980Ti.
For what games? This guy here >>377819290
Admittedly I do only have a 1680x1050 screen and don't care about maximum graphics settings

>>377820135
A 1060 6gb is like 200 bucks on a good day

>>377814823
... funny enough I "upgrade my PC" right about the same frequency console makers release new consoles.

Or at least I did before the new trend started ... PS4, PS4 Slim, PS4 Pro, PS4 Pro Slim, PS4 Ultra, PS4 Turbo, Super PS4, Super PS4 Slim, Super PS4 Slim Turbo ...

>>377820294
For some reason I read 1080. That game still runs like hot dogshit on my i7/970 which runs damn near every other game I throw at it on high or max settings, so I still mad.

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>>377819871
>>377820135
>being this mad

you could get a computer this good for well under $1000, and no i didnt buy this just to downsample this game from a resolution my TV cant even display, im just doing that because i can

you could max it with a much weaker graphics card at 1080p, 1080p is about half as many pixels as 1440p, dumb consolefag

either way its much more interesting and better looking in general than battlefield 1 which is just a bunch of fucking dirt and open space with a bunch of retarded guns, and you retards eat that shit up

>>377820009
I jumped from a HD6770 to a GTX 1070.

Now that was worth it.

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>>377819696
My 5 year old computer that still works
5 years ago was a long time

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>>377814823

>This many people taking the bait
>I didn't take the bait I'm just clarifying that OP is wrong

Here's a free bump.

Sorry I don't have a platform fanboyism bump.

>>377814823
Last time I upgraded was like 3 years ago. i7 4770 and GTX 970 still works very well playing on ultra.

>>377820514
Intel really hit it out of the park with Sandy Bridge.

>>377820462
they just didnt optimize it for older cards yet im sure, its crazy how well it runs for how it looks, at 3k (almost 4k) it almost never dips below 60fps still

i recently upgraded a 660 ti and games would tend to be unoptimized as fuck for it before/near release and then get an update that improves it a lot

>>377820471
that won't make the game looks and play less like ass

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>>377814823
I use my PC for work as well as games so nah. I could probably do with a slight upgrade, now that I think about it.

>>377820615
Very few games honestly end up limited by my cpu. I just have nowhere near enough vram for modern AAA titles, despite them all looking like shit.
Next upgrade wilt probably be a 1080ti

>>377820545
I was actually talking with other anons about other stuff because I knew OP was b8.

>>377814823

I actually update my PC every 5-7 years, which is about the same length of time between console generations. Also I pirate all my PC games, so it saves me even more money.

>>377820723
see
>>377820690
its not even out yet and they usually optimize for newest cards first seems like

>>377820794
>Next upgrade wilt probably be a 1080ti
Not worth it. 50% price and power draw increase for 25% more performance. Stick with the 1080 at most.

>>377814823
I upgrade my pc every 2 console cycles and it costs less than a single cycle (e.x: ps4 - ps4 pro).

So, no.

>>377820909
nigger i played the beta, its shit
no amount of optimization and downsampling will make this game look like it don't belong in 2005

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Indian here, been thinking of upgrading my GTX660 here.
>mfw a 660 is 17k but a 1060 is also 17k in amazon
WHAT

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>>377814823

>>377821241
1060 6gb is the way to go, don't get the inferior 3gb version, it has less cpu cores.

>>377814823
Never, but I realized it's retarded to keep buying new games and new hardware when there are so many good games I haven't played yet that I can emulate on half-decent hardware. And if I decide to actually buy them, most will be pretty cheap.

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>mfw I got my entire $2k PC for free

>>377821308
Anyone has the list of pc games this shit is talking about? i want to play games in my pc.

>>377820979
Price isn't really an object. Devs aren't keeping up with hardware advancements nearly as well as they were 7 years ago.
Based on trends I'd rather splurge for the ti and get more vram. As that has been the most steadily increasing performance requisite for the gaming market.

>>377821241
Nvidia knew what they were doing with the 600 series. It's the most recent line that never mad me feel obligated to upgrade.
t. 480 owner, 580 owner, now 680 owner.

>>377821241
Old shit is often weirdly expensive. No longer in production but may still be needed by systems certified for it.

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>>377814823
>>377821308

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>>377814823
>>377821308
>>377821448

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>>377814823

YET PC FAGS DEFEND THIS

>'PC MASTER RACE'

Has to buy expensive ass parts whenever they fail, or spend several times the cost of a console for 'super parts' that last longer

>'I SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR MY COMPUTER BUT PC MASTER RACE RIGHT GUYS.....RIGHT'?

THEY DEFEND THIS

I got a 2gb ram 2.1 ghs dualcore intel with Integrated gfx card and only play spacestation 13 anyways.

>>377821802
must suck being poor anon

>>377814823
2 gens have passed me by and im still using the same pc, only upgrade i ve done is get an ssd

>>377821427
Because mommy bought it for you?

>>377814823
2004

>>377822034
poast specs

>>377822508
black penis

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>>377821802
>Has to buy expensive parts whenever they fail
RMA is painless for PC parts unlike cucksole. Enjoy your Planned obsolescence!

>Super parts that last longer
Patently untrue. All CPUs and graphics cards of the same architechture have the same failure rates as they are all manufactured on the same line. Higher-end cards are just more powerful.

I know people on console aren't too bright and a solid majority have IQs hovering around room temperature Celsius, but come on.

>>377818985
Neither does the PS4 though, almost all of those are on PC, bring up actually exclusives like Y0