Can my rig survive for the next 4-5 years?

[dafko_m]

I built a gaming pc and I need your guy's thoughts if I could use it for the next 4 years and beyond(because I barely got the money to buy it)
gtx 1060 3gb.i5-8400.kingston a400 240gb.8gb hyper x 2400hz ram(which I plan to upgrade in the future.and the TUF B360-PRO GAMING mobo (anything else I didnt mention like case or hard disk was on purpose because I dont think it will effect performance at all but if you must know yes the case is big and I have two case fans and a good cpu cooler).
I will not overclock anything (except enabling the mxp profile for the ram)also I just plan to use thos pc for gaming.I know Il have to reduce the in game settings over time to get stable fps but except that do you guys think I would be able to use this rig for half of a decade without encountering issues.

 

[ano1337]

Maybe i mean the gpu is already 2 years old .

 

[Peter Martin]

it all depends on what you can be satisfied with.

 

[dudeman509]

If you can work a GTX 1060 6 GB into your budget, that would definitely have more potential to last longer with upcoming games. Games are eating up more and more VRAM every year.

CPU should be alright for a few years to come. If you don't have a SSD, they do make a large difference in day-to-day usability as an OS drive.

 

[Snipergod87]

4-5 years on a GTX 1060 3GB might be difficult, as long as you are fine really turning down the settings on AAA games in 4-5 years you should be ok, but it is always an unknown.

 

[Eximo]

Well, we can use some older data to make guesses:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-1-directx-12-benchmark,5017-2.html

A bit focused on DX12, but the relative performance is what we are after.

31-68FPS with a GTX760 on low settings for Battlefield 1. Certainly playable if not ideal graphics settings. That GPU was released almost exactly 5 years ago and is in the same class as the GTX1060.

GTX1060 scores much better with a minimum of 83FPS on the same settings.

If we peer into the future at something like a GTX 1260 fourish years from now. Then you can expect that when that comes out, there will likely be some games that you can still run on minimum settings and still have a playable experience. Good news then is that you would be ready to upgrade at that point.

As Snipergod87 mentions, there will always be games like Crysis that push even high end hardware years after release. So you can't expect every title that comes out to run super great as the years go by. (I'm looking at you Star Citizen, which is a CryEngine game)

BF1 also came with the baggage of needing a quite decent CPU to run it properly in multiplayer.

 

[zyh1987]

to be honest, for gaming, the gpu will be obsolete in about 2 generations. your cpu should be fine.

for example the 750ti or the 760 launched 4-5 years, ago. and it's showing its age, running the most recent titles properly at 1080p.

general purpose, i would say, the pc is fine, for gaming, i think you need another gpu upgrade,, and it should be fine, similar to how people now are running i5 4460 with 1060 3gb/6gb.