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Quicks said:
R60K just to build a decent PC that will last what maybe 3-4 years? Prices are insane ATM and the Dollar / Rand exchange is surely not helping.
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My mate was still playing COD with me this year on a 6700k and 1070Ti. PC has a long lifespan if you stop trying to hunt for max settings.
 
RedViking said:
Sigh.... still an i7 (6700K) + 1070 OC.
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Hmmm....

Okay, in that case my suggestion would be to just do the GPU now. You will notice a fairly massive difference in performance. You'll run into CPU bottlenecks for now, but then you do the rest of the upgrade later.

Depending what you have, you would likely need to do GPU and PSU together.

Not sure if the staggered approach would work for you, but the difference a new GPU would make will bring tears to your eyes and potentially some pre-cum.
 
ShloshMalosh said:
AM4 can do the same at a fraction of the cost? Maybe no upgrade path but that wasnt a requirement.
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It wasn't, but I took it as implicit in the "future-proof" requirement. The difference between AM5 and AM4 is already fairly large and that's on the first-gen chips. It will only get faster, so not much point in buying into "old" tech at this point.
 
UrBaN963 said:
Hmmm....

Okay, in that case my suggestion would be to just do the GPU now. You will notice a fairly massive difference in performance. You'll run into CPU bottlenecks for now, but then you do the rest of the upgrade later.

Depending what you have, you would likely need to do GPU and PSU together.

Not sure if the staggered approach would work for you, but the difference a new GPU would make will bring tears to your eyes and potentially some pre-cum.
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If I can go staged that would be great short term. Will check full specs of current PC and post here. The CPU is quite old and I def want to upgrade, but staged is awesome if I can get one of the latest GPU and put in a new system later. Whatever I get now must not be, so it is compatible with current system, but useable in planning for a future system, if that makes sense. Staged approach will be first price.
 
Quicks said:
R60K just to build a decent PC that will last what maybe 3-4 years? Prices are insane ATM and the Dollar / Rand exchange is surely not helping.
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Actually longer probably 5 years
 
ShloshMalosh said:
AM4 can do the same at a fraction of the cost? Maybe no upgrade path but that wasnt a requirement.
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He did, said future proof, I've been on am4 since 2019,it's been great and been happy, as I've gone 1600, 2600 to 5600 in that time
 
ShloshMalosh said:
AM4 can do the same at a fraction of the cost? Maybe no upgrade path but that wasnt a requirement.
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Raptor lake has no upgrade path either from the current rumor mills. Aside from AM5 which is still a question mark on longevity, 95% of all sockets have no upgrade path, by the time you need an upgrade there won't be any new cpu/board parts that provide upgradability. So "upgrades" within the same socket is a red herring, so far only AM4 has proven otherwise.
 
RedViking said:
If I can go staged that would be great short term. Will check full specs of current PC and post here. The CPU is quite old and I def want to upgrade, but staged is awesome if I can get one of the latest GPU and put in a new system later. Whatever I get now must not be, so it is compatible with current system, but useable in planning for a future system, if that makes sense. Staged approach will be first price.
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Yea you will be fine with any new GPU, the only potential issue is your PSU as the newer cards are quite thirsty.

Yep, post your specs and we'll take it from there man.
 
Mystic Twilight said:
Raptor lake has no upgrade path either from the current rumor mills. Aside from AM5 which is still a question mark on longevity, 90% of all sockets have no upgrade path, by the time you need an upgrade there won't be any new cpu/board parts that provide upgradability. So "upgrades" within the same socket is a red herring.
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Not true at all. AM4 had a fantastic upgrade path - 4 generations! AM5 is supposed to have the same, though obviously tell will tell. Intel generally never do more than 2 generations per socket, so they're not great in that respect. That said, if you have something like an i7-13700K, you won't be struggling for performance for a while.
 
UrBaN963 said:
Not true at all. AM4 had a fantastic upgrade path - 4 generations! AM5 is supposed to have the same, though obviously tell will tell. Intel generally never do more than 2 generations per socket, so they're not great in that respect. That said, if you have something like an i7-13700K, you won't be struggling for performance for a while.
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You didn't read fully, I never said 100% of all sockets but 90% (which is a thumb suck but still illustrates my meaning), AM4 is part of that remaining 10%.
 
Mystic Twilight said:
You didn't read fully, I never said 100% of all sockets but 90% (which is a thumb suck but still illustrates my meaning), AM4 is part of that remaining 10%.
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You also edited your post to change what you'd initially said.

Either way, AMD have been good with this, Intel not so much.
 
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