I’m defintely getting a new mobo (and RAM) as well as a new case and PSU. Aside from some hard drives dying over the years everything has been super reliable but they’re just as old as the CPU so might as well upgrade them at the same time. The new case is just for aestheitcs as the Lian Li brushed aliminium case is looking pretty dated now.
Video card and drives from my current machine will get moved over and at least the card will be updated some time in the future. It’s only an RX470 but it will have to suffice for now.
still a potato requirement in comparison to pretty much almost every mmo out there. something i hate the most about this game, graphic almost never improves. just personal preference
I have said it before on these forums, and I’ll keep saying it every time it comes up. For anyone still running their games off a mechanical HDD… you owe it to yourself to upgrade.
You can get a 120gb SSD for under 20 dollars, and it’s one of the simplest things you can install. If you can afford to play this game, you can afford to buy this.
I highly recommend getting at the new TX40 AORUS boards. I also know the ROG boards are very good, but I personally stick to gigabyte. The Lian Li cases are very pretty.
I’d recommend buying at least 500gb, the price per gb is just soooooo cheap now and if you game you’re going to run out of disc space pretty quickly. I personally buy 1TB SSDs.
Of course, I just really want to hammer home the point that even if you were on a super tight budget, if you can afford the subscription for this game, you can afford the SSD.
Hell, skip playing for a month if you have to. It’s worth it!
Well what I mean is there is like a daily transfer of files from one folder to the other for archiving and then on top of that there is an additional PDF created every day of about 100 pages for archiving.
Yeah, that’s pretty common for businesses. The thing I need from my business computers is 4K… or at least QHD. 1080 is just… so sad to look at in 2020.
Lol, that is what I am looking at because I don’t think 1440p will do well with newer games coming out on a GTX 1070. Now if I could just decide on what kind of monitor panel, everyone says go IPS but I am in a dark space where I game and the IPS glow might be too noticeable.
For many users this is a non-issue. latest models this number is waaaaay up there. And you’d be needing some serious i/o action for many years going on to even approach it.
I would personally go with a VA panel. Lower prices, with superior performance per dollar. Unless you’re doing video editing, you don’t need an IPS panel. At 1440p, I would suggest going with a 144Hz monitor as when you upgrade your GPU you’ll be able to get frame rates higher than 60, which is what most IPS monitors are at unless you are spending big bucks.
The RX5700XT is a great GPU for $400 or less, and it does 1440p just fine.
Are you sure? Even some old ATi-era cards like the series HD 5000 series and 6000 series still got the Crimson Drivers, early R9 series still get regular updates along the current RX series. Long time driver support has always been better on AMD side than on Nvidia.
I plan on waiting till the 3000 series nvidia cards, if I could get the second gtx 1070 I was gifted to work correctly I would run sli but meh it is more of a hassle than it is worth.
My concern with VA panels is that they are almost all curved that I can find. There are a few 24inch 1080p IPS panels out there but they say without being in a bright or dimly lit room you can see the glow and I am in a dark space often. VA would work I think but the damn curves on monitors bugs me immensely.
A 1070 is still a pretty beefy card. I would recommend sticking to QHD. You might not be able to run everything at ultra quality, true, but you’re going to get an even bigger hit with less pixels per frame to draw with anyway.
That said, I don’t really know a lot about monitors. I’m a software engineer that works on kernels so I know more about hardware than most, but personally I just buy something with 4k and take a frame rate hit because I have bad eyesight and it makes reading code easier. If I was only gaming I would get a high refresh rate QHD VA.
For most people yes, you should get at least half a decade of use. the firmware in the disk drive is designed to detect and shuffle data around. That said, what matters is how you use the drive. If you’re constantly writing to it, you’re going to wear it out faster. Most consumer uses are super read heavy though, so you should get a decade or more out of it.
Positive. Even contacted their support and got the same answer. “We stopped making drivers for that card. There is no longer any support. But we do have these new cards you can spend money on!”
I use the LG 32GK650F-B 32" QHD Gaming Monitor with 144Hz Refresh Rate and Radeon FreeSync Technology. Got it for $289 on Amazon refurbished. I got lucky with no dead pixels. 32" flat screen, 144hz 5ms gtg. It’s great.
(edit) My monitor has a huge scratch down the back of the monitor. You can’t see it because it’s against the wall, but if that bothers you, make sure to buy new, not refurbished.
