How Long My System Last To Me ?

[MutluZ]

Hi guys i build a new system:

I5-4460 3.20 Ghz
8 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 Ram
XFX R9 280X 3 GB 384 Bit
Msi Z97 Gaming 5 (i know i dont need this but it was cheaper than gaming 3 and it was only 20 $ more than h97 gaming 3 (one i was gonna but )
Zalman Z3 Plus
Zalman ZM700-GLX (632W from 12v rail)
1 TB HDD
Dvd-Rom

Im planning to upgrade it after 3 years.How long it will last to me at ultra-high settings ?

Second Question:When im upgrading this rig i plan getting 4790K but new 6 series cpu and maybe 7 series intel cpu s will be on market so is it will be good to buy at 2018 ? (i7 4790k)

 

[davidarad02]

you probably wont want to get a CPU and motherboard right now, because you should probably wait for skylake. also, you should probably get a better PSU.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

I agree, wait for the full range of Skylake CPUs to be released. They're close in price, a little more performance, but the new motherboard and chipsets provide the latest tech and upgrade path down the road.

DDR4, full M2 support, dual NICs, USB 3/3.1 support, there are a LOT of good changes for the 100 series chipsets and the mobos are very reasonably priced.

 

[davidarad02]

I agree, wait for the full range of Skylake CPUs to be released. They're close in price, a little more performance, but the new motherboard and chipsets provide the latest tech and upgrade path down the road.

DDR4, full M2 support, dual NICs, USB 3/3.1 support, there are a LOT of good changes for the 100 series chipsets and the mobos are very reasonably priced.

just so you know, full m.2 was already on z97, but it was locked to only one of the, dual nics is still the motherboard manufacturer's decision to put on the board, and USB 3.1 is still via a secondary chipset.

 

[MutluZ]

Im not getting anything right now guys please read my question carefully my question is how long this system will last to me at ultra-high and is buying 4790k at 2018 will be good ? (because i dont want to get a new mobo)

 

[davidarad02]

Im not getting anything right now guys please read my question carefully my question is how long this system will last to me at ultra-high and is buying 4790k at 2018 will be good ?

probably a solid 3-4 years

 

[MutluZ]

Nice.I Will be upgrading for sure after 3 years.My mobo is solid for 4790k i think and after 3 years buying 4790k will be stupid or clever ( i really dont care about ddr4 and usb 3.1 and dual NIC)

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Ah - sorry about that - it said 'I build a new system'. Not 'I built a new system'. Thought you were in the planning stages. All things being equal, it's a solid build and will be good for a few years.

Many people are saying even now that many of the i7-2600k and i5-2500k builds are still very comparable to the new Skylake platforms and they won't really need to upgrade.

As for upgrading down the road to a i7-4790k, yeah - that'll do you just fine also. The i5-4460 is a perfectly solid quad core processor for gaming and should be solid and the i7-4790k is actually faster than the new Skylake i7-6700k in most workloads by a few percent.

 

[MutluZ]

Ahh sorry my english is not very good so yeah my thoughs is same as you but at 2018 4790k will be a old proccesor and ddr4 will be cheap as ddr3 thats what im thinking.Buying 4790k now will last me for min. 5 years but on 2018 it lasts me 2 years.So... You say buying 4790k on 2018 will be good for a 3 years more ?

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Ahh sorry my english is not very good so yeah my thoughs is same as you but at 2018 4790k will be a old proccesor and ddr4 will be cheap as ddr3 thats what im thinking.Buying 4790k now will last me for min. 5 years but on 2018 it lasts me 2 years.So... You say buying 4790k on 2018 will be good for a 3 years more ?

That is a tough question, and the answer is... Maybe. Much depends on what kind of games you're interested in and ultimately guessing as to what you'll want to play in the future, and the people who write the software engines for rendering graphics and such obviously aim very high when it comes to planning for the hardware to run the software on.

At this rate, looking both backward and looking forward, the 2500k/2600k were released in 2011 (about 4 years ago) and it is still sufficient today although it is about 20% down in raw capability from the current release. However, most games are still driven by the GPU as that is what really has to do much of the heavy lifting. Pairing a 4 year old processor with a state of the art GPU is still more than sufficient for high level gaming today, and will probably continue to be so for another 2 years at least.

So, if you're buying near state of the art today (Haswell quad core, w/ R9-280x), in three or four years your processor should still be quite sufficient for gaming, and you -might- need to upgrade the CPU to a more powerful one by buying a used processor. You would probably only need to really upgrade the GPU, because that market tends to move much more quickly. Take a look at the new AMD Fury cards with the high bandwidth memory, and the upcoming Pascal cards from nVidia which are rumored to be utilizing the same technology.

To sum it up, the CPU will probably be fine for 2-3 years, you -might- need an upgrade in 2018, maybe not. The GPU might also need an upgrade, but the rest of the system will probably be fine depending on what kind of gaming you want to do 4 years down the road.