Out of Pod Experience

Upgrade for what? All games made today are made to work mainly on 7 year old console hardware and then ported to the PC. I have a computer that is 4 years old and it still runs skyrim on the highest settings with ease. The only thing that has changed when it comes to hardware is the names of the cards to keep you buying new ones.

Well i thought my PC has done me well for last 6 yr and due upgrade as prob be another 6 yrs till i do upgrade again.



thanks, was bit wary of the GTX690 to begin with, as was near same price as Titan, So guess 690 out of the window :)

True prob bit OTT for just gaming, just been on low/mid range for ages now, would like something i don't need to find the money later and know when i get a new game i can run it without a prob, more so since some of the games coming out seam to have some real detail graphics (that and misses just slammed money in hand and told me to treat myself to new PC)



Forgot the GTX 7xx, think you might be right there, least holding out till some comparisons come out, but understand and have been warned about SLI, just wanted to make sure want not just 1 persons bad experience

Just a note the GTX Titan is extremely powerful. Yet not the best value in the lineup when it comes to gaming. The value for that card is that it is more like the Telsa series of cards that are good for GPU workloads that aren't related to gaming.

The GTX 780 is looking to be a lower version of the Titan
The GTX 770 according to Tom's Hardware will be a beefed up GTX 680 with 4 gigs of ram.

Getting a bigger badder card will mean that it will last longer. However there is a point where the value of that vanishes. This is because the bigger the core (die) the less they can fit on wafer and thus failed dies eat a much larger slice of the profit. My opinion is that for a 3-5 year GPU IF the 770 is in the 4-5 hundred USD range it will be the way to go.

It could probably handle a lot more than just 3 clients if you only had enough screen space to actually see them all, and a beefy enough CPU to keep up with it.
Go into a massive TD factor fleet combat even in single client mode, and the CPU will most likely become the bottleneck fast at maxed settings, no matter what it is or what else you have in your machine.

The 770 is getting 4gb of ram tho over the 680's 2 so it should be a pretty darn good boost. I still think with that you can invest in the best Haswell K series, cooling and get some massive overclocking headroom with a good Power Supply.

Not empty quoting.

Yea I agree...Really only three reason you would want to have top of the line gaming PC or PC in general:

1. PC Enthusiast
2. Bench-marker
3. You can afford the best and want the best in performance, even if it's a minor increase in performance


Other than that, you can build a pretty powerful gaming computer for pretty cheap around 500 bucks. And I mean, powerful as in, can play pretty much any game at Max settings, though frame rates will vary.

Some games you do need top of the line, like Crysis 3. Hell, from what I hear, SLI setups have trouble running Crysis 3 at max settings, even with 680's.

Other games you need top end specs to run at max/ultra

Metro 2033
Skyrim with a ton of mods
I've heard the new Tomb Raider is pretty demanding
Witcher 2

Again, playable on any decent gaming PC, but if you want best in class, you need an uber PC to play these at max settings.


Edit: Also, if you are primarily concerned with EVE, 680, 670, 690 are all overkill.

Yes, it all changes in 2014, that much we can agree for sure.
Consoles, also yes, agree, sort of. At least the PS4 comes out this winter holidays, and probably also the XboX 720 (or whatever it will be called).
The thing is, the tech specs so far don't look anything like a top-of-the-line PC of today (let alone that of a top-of-the-line machine next year), they look fairly tame and mid-range.

For instance, the PS4, it's basically a next-gen A-series 8-CPU-cores ~1.8tflop GPU combo APU pus 8GB of RAM.
That's probably on par with an AMD FX 8150 alongside a Radeon HD 7850, which I would definitely call mid-range gaming material.
The upper end of the mid-range i5 CPUs that will come out in a couple of months combined with a GTX 660 or a GTX 750 when it comes out will probably be a bit better than a PS4 (at similar graphics detail levels).
It's still a major step up from the current consoles, but nowhere near a "wow"-level upgrade. I guess it's enough to bring us much better PC games soon though.

But XP, not so much anymore.

Already dropped below 10% usage and quickly going into near-universal obsolescence.