Does anybody who still loiters on here actually know anything about current PC components? It's been many years since I last took any notice.
My PC is about 3 and a half years old now and the upgraded monitor is taking it's toll. I thought about upgrading the GPU early this year but the prices were insane. What I'm wondering is how the rest of the spec looks now, as while I've had a read bout GPUs and that there are new ones coming in a few months, so it makes sense to wait, is the rest of my system going to hold a new GPU back? That sentence was way too long. I have zero interest in building a new PC from scratch (seriously, I don't want to do it so don't tell me how easy it is, I've done it in the past, I'm just not interested). So yeah, upgrade or just buy a new PC?
Core i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHZ
8 Gig of RAM
GTX 970
What I don't want is to upgrade the GPU and then find the CPU goes bad shortly after. How long do they last these days? Is that CPU still any good? And I assume 16G of RAM is the minimum these days?
My PC is about 3 and a half years old now and the upgraded monitor is taking it's toll. I thought about upgrading the GPU early this year but the prices were insane. What I'm wondering is how the rest of the spec looks now, as while I've had a read bout GPUs and that there are new ones coming in a few months, so it makes sense to wait, is the rest of my system going to hold a new GPU back? That sentence was way too long. I have zero interest in building a new PC from scratch (seriously, I don't want to do it so don't tell me how easy it is, I've done it in the past, I'm just not interested). So yeah, upgrade or just buy a new PC?
Core i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHZ
8 Gig of RAM
GTX 970
What I don't want is to upgrade the GPU and then find the CPU goes bad shortly after. How long do they last these days? Is that CPU still any good? And I assume 16G of RAM is the minimum these days?