Someone told me to post this here instead.I got a notice from my drivers update of the graphics card that it won't receive any more support, and it suddenly started failing since.My PC is around 9 years old and these are my current specs:OS: Windows 10 Education version 22H2GPU: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (Gigabyte)CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.81 GHzRAM: 16.0 GB (2 Corsair 8gb each 1064MHZ)Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. B360M DS3H (U3E1)Hard drive: 1788GB KINGSTON SA400S371920G (SATA-2 (SSD))The OS is something I got from school time ago(it's official), I got the notice to upgrade to windows 11, but it also said I can't upgrade due some chip missing on the motherboard. I'm thinking of possibly upgrading the motherboard, maybe the processor and graphics card, and maybe keeping my RAM/SSD (or changing them if that'd be better).Anyone here can give me some decent upgrade settings, with some good price-performance relation (like not paying double just to have 10% better performance than some other GPU), which could last maybe some other 10 years if possible, I really love this PC, but maybe it needs an upgrade.I heard the prices of components went up lately (due the AI bubble or something), and I would like some advice/guidance to what would be something decent and not way too expensive in general.Some extra info: If possible not AMD stuff (I got some previous issues with those and don't trust them anymore).
You can try Linux since it supports hardware for longer.
>>1557869Personally, I would just get a Lenovo V15 laptop. For $400, it gets 40GB RAM and 1TB storage for my model. Pretty sure it is $450 for the 2TB one.
>>1557872>40GB RAMdamn... gonna check that out...
It's not a great time to be upgrading your computer right now because prices are at all time high, If you can grab RTX 2070 or a Rtx 3000 series (whichever) you'll be fine for another 5 years.You should consider upgrading your ram to 32gb or even 64gb. Your mobo is capable of using DDR4 ram, so that's what you should use. if you do this you'll be fine for another 10 years.Other people in this thread will probably recommend you fagshit labtops that will only live a year tops, or 9001 dollar gpu that offer 10% more power or fake AI frames. Do not listen to them, they are retarded. If you use these setups with 1080 you'll be absolutely fine even on ultra high with any modern game.If you want to 4k game because you're an absolute faggot then just go to dell and buy an alienware and spend 10k because you deserve to be scammed.
>>1557874>If you want to 4k game because you're an absolute faggotdidn't know alienware still existed (they were a scam years ago, so I never tried to get one and preffered to just build my own P), but a lot of the other info is really useful, and yeah, I heard prices are bad right now.Thank you for the info.
>>1557875Jokes aside, theres really no reason to go to 4k, most of the content out right now is using 1k resolution textures and then use a separate process to "upscale" to fake being 4k. Many if not all of the "4k mods" that fan makes for games use the same process. Games are still mostly made with console play in mind and the consoles struggle to reach 4k so there isn't much point.Now if you're doing illustrator/photoshop or other general art/printing work as a hobby or for work, you might want to consider a build for 4k.Right now the RTX 9070 is considered the top of the line mostly because it comes with such a high amount of VRAM which is used for shaders and higher resolution texture loading. If you intend to go into VR games a lot or want to do blender/3dmodeling the VRAM is almost mandatory. You can kind of think of it as a SSD for ram. I personally don't recommend converting from nvidia to AMD unless you plan on doing a full fresh install of windows and clean memory but that's probably your best bet for pure future proofing.Alternatively, the rtx 5070 only comes with 12gb vram for the same prices and it's main benefit is that it'll use AI to keep your frame rate high even when your actual hardware begins to struggle. This leads to a problem that im going to refer to as "fake frames." this is especially noticeable when an object s moving fast. and since the ai doesnt know where the object will definitely be next frame it creates a halo of potential future screen blurs around the object which essentially makes fast objects appear to glow. Or especially annoying when the AI predicts a still object will remain still, introducing fake frames where an object remains stationary which appears to the viewer as input lag. Nvidia has also indicated that they will soon be taking the AI frames away and charging monthly for them- so I dont recommend this card.If you just want to play the latest games on 1080p ultra high you dont need either of these cards
>>1557880Thank you, this info seems useful, the thing is my motherboard is also pretty small, and my graphics card kind of blocks another slot while plugged (my network card failed probably due that) so I was thinking of maybe changing it, unless the newest GPU cards are somehow smaller (which I doubt), but I was really ignorant about the currently "good cards", I found some benchmark site (based on some users reviews, so I hope it's somehow true) and compared the 5070 with my old card and seems to be way better. Now the thing is, I see a lot of cards for sale labeled as 5070, some MSI, some ASUS, and I'm not sure which one is actually good, or what should I check besides vram.The last time, when I got my 1060, I didn't know it'd come with the hdmi port and some other square shaped port which I have no idea what was I supposed to connect there.
