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QOTW: Which upcoming tech will persuade you to upgrade your PC?

by Parm Mann on 25 April 2014, 16:30

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You know what's particularly tricky about building your own PC? The fact that there's always something interesting waiting just around the corner.

Sure, you could put together a stellar PC right now with the components currently available on the market, but wait a while and you have all sorts of treasures to look forward to: Intel's Broadwell, AMD's Excavator, DDR4 memory, M.2 SSDs, PCI Express 4.0, Nvidia's Pascal...and much, much more.

So for all those of you who are thinking about putting together a new rig but find yourselves sat comfortably on the fence, we want to know: which upcoming tech will persuade you to upgrade your PC? If you're waiting for something specific, let us know what and why using the comments facility below.

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Posted by DemonHighwayman - Fri 25 Apr 2014 16:48
I'm waiting to see what intel's new i7 cpu's are like, if there is no real improvement i'll be getting a 4770k in the summer and putting it on a z97 mini itx board. At first i'll be using my current AMD 5870 in my new system while I save up for a new card, however i'm interested in Nvidia's mid-high end Maxwell cards if they ever come along.

That would be the only tech i'm waiting to hear about but I have just purchased a case and will be purchasing the cooling hardware on payday (end of the month:-( ) Then SSD, HDD's the next month by which time I hope intel will have released there new chips and z97 boards will be available !
Posted by LeetyMcLeet - Fri 25 Apr 2014 17:11
For me it's always graphics card(s). As a rule of thumb I only replace the core components every 4-5 years. The i5/i7's are so good, as long as you've got a decent amount of memory and at least 1 SSD for your games, all you gotta replace is the GPU every couple of years.

To answer the question though, 4k monitors definitely interest me. Just waiting for monitor tech to mature and the prices to fall and buy around the same time as a capable GPU upgrade.
Posted by edzieba - Fri 25 Apr 2014 17:17
With the DK2 arriving sometime in July, that's when I'll start looking for GPU upgrades if the ol' GTX670 can't push a solid 75FPs (or more accurately, a solid sub-13ms rendering time) in most situations. Waiting for Maxwell to deploy in earnest is the other gate, either for buying a newer card or taking advantage of older cards dropping in price.

On the CPU side, there's still no upgrade from the 2500K that's anything more than marginal outside of edge-case workloads like video encoding and ray-tracing. Certainly not in single-threaded applications.
Posted by Mentawl - Fri 25 Apr 2014 17:30
Probably once the IPS/PVA g-sync or AMD-equivalent monitors hit the shops in a big way. Got enough raw horsepower already, now just need to improve the other parts :).
Posted by Nobull - Fri 25 Apr 2014 17:42
Not sure, last two GPU generations seem to have been quite incremental improvements, especially with all the rebadging nonsense and it's generally GPU I look to upgrade more often but I can't see anything coming along particularly soon that will warrant the outlay to replace my 6950 (which has unlocked shaders and clocks of a 6970), certainly not at 1080p. I'd definitely be interested in buying a higher res monitor which would then perhaps push me to upgrade the GPU, but they're still so ridiculously overpriced. Even 2560x1400 monitors are like 3 times the price of 1080p one, which just seems bonkers.

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