Convincing myself to skip Haswell for Skylake (&DDR4)

[dead mike]

If you're satisfied, then don't buy into the console-style release of new equipment.

Damn they really do release em like that, and the game's graphics have not gotten that much better. Waste of money, think about kicking some of that cash to investments, donations, somthing productive, preferably tax deductible.

 

[47]

4 x PCIe x4/x8/x16,
1 x PCIe x1, 1 x PCI

so that means i got pcie 1.1 x16 slot ?

 

[Cock]

Your mobo has PCI-E 2.0 support 47

I would LOL if a x58 board only had PCI-E 1.1

 

[Glocky]

4 x PCIe x4/x8/x16,
1 x PCIe x1, 1 x PCI

so that means i got pcie 1.1 x16 slot ?

Cock is right, you have PCI-E 2.0 x16 if you're running 1 card
or x8/x8 if you're running 2
or x4/x4/x4/x4 if you're running 4

A sound card or something else could go in the PCI-e x1 or the PCI slot.

 

[47]

i have no idea what im doing

 

[Glocky]

 

[$alvador]

By the time I had my P5Q I started moving away from the mentality of buying a whole new rig every few years for thousands and settled into a groove of incremental updates. In the end, the cost is pretty much the same except it doesn't hurt as much because it's spread out over the years and you never get left with the feeling that your setup is outdated and slow.

Sometimes the outdated components you have even come back to redeem themselves. Right now I have an old Zalman heatsink cooling I bought way back for a Pentium D cooling my 1090T well (thanks to the backward-compatible AM3+ mount) and the 9800GT I replaced with a GTX 460 has returned as my secondary GPU for PhysX which doesn't come in handy for many games but it sure makes BATMAN look more awesome.

Electronics, like cars, are a pay-to-play hobby. You're never gonna get your money back from either, so I just don't see the sense in even trying to justify a purchase or worry about how much money it'll cost (within reason). If you enjoy it enough to fuck around with and consider it a hobby then just accept it'll cost you; upgrade often, and keep a monthly ledger to see what less-fun things you have in your life that you can economize on to free up funds for what you do want to enjoy.

Life is too damn short to deal with shit like low FPS, isn't it?

 

[Glocky]

Figured I'd see you in here Sal. :)
I agree with your piece. My added bit for me is that I tend to recycle the whole rig to the kids instead of piecemeal, so I take somewhat less risks than some hobby overclockers and I really like bang for the buck type of transactions.

So in this case, this pay to play upgrade (essentially a new GPU every 2 years over the lifespan of a 6 1/2 year gaming rig) gives me good FPS and fun stuff to play / plan with... and keeps the costs within reason.

 

[$alvador]

yeah, GPUs tend to last a good while but maybe i just think that because i'm always playing old-ass games. I guess if you got kids that takes priority away from blowing money on PC stuff. In that case... AMD

AMD regardless because the Radeons are hauling ass past nVidia lately.