Enough for gaming

[michaelralphfarmer]

I have a 1 year old build using a TUF Z270 MARK 2 board, intel core i7-7700k kaby lake processor cooled with a corsair hydro searies cooler, 32 gigs of 2133mhz crucial brand ram, 2 DUAL-GTX1070-O8G graphics cards connected with an sli bridge, a samsung 960 evo m.2 ssd drive, a 2tb wd ssd drive and 3 samsung 24 inch curved monitors. One of the hdmi outputs are connected to an oculus rift. How long will this be good for gaming until I actually need to upgrade parts?

 

[zyh1987]

are your curve monitors 1080 or 2k?

i would say that cpu is good for at least 2 more generation, (about 3 years)
gpu is good for 1 generation on its own (1.5 years), and 2 generation if sli still works (about 3years)

it's similar to how
770 sli and 4770k performs now against the coffee lake i5 8400 and 1070.

 

[zyh1987]

again, we cannot be for certain,
CPU wise, there is no *real* improvements in IPC since skylake,

GPU wise, if the gpu market got competitive again, like the ryzen and kabylake/coffeelake, then you will expect more powerful hardware coming in the next 1~2 years. you can perdict the relative performance by looking at lithography used. (lithography node refresh from 14nm to 14nm+/12 nm = small improvements, lithographic node change 12nm to 7 nm = big improvements, as you can pack more transistor in a given area/thermal package)

 

[michaelralphfarmer]

i have 1080 monitors. I know when i do a benchmark test, im in the 76th percentile. I have no issues with any current game at the highest settings and my VR system has no issues. I can play with the occulus and another can play the forest on another monitor and on the 3rd monitor is for checking comments on twitch. I can build a rig, but Im not aware of the technical specifics on how everything marries. At the time I just bought what i thought would work and put them together, I know my processor is not the best but its not the worst. I know the I need better ram and I world like to learn to overclock the processor for more speed, I just need to learn.