[SOLVED] How long will my current PC last before i need an upgrade?

[utkarsh.singh521]

I built my PC last year and i use it for both gaming and using 3D softwares (3ds max, Maya, etc.)

My Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600
GPU: Galax Geforce GTX 1070 EX
Motherboard: Asus Prime B450 M-A
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3000mhz
HDD: WD Blue 2TB
SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 250GB

With new games demanding more and more ridiculous requirements to run them (Metro Exodus recommended GPU is GTX 1070), just how long will my current build last before i need new components?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

3 - 4 years.

 

[zyh1987]

Gaming pbbly 2years+. judging by most 970 are still rocking aaa titles 1080p@60. Productivity will be varying, 16gb isn’t a lot. You might have to upgrade those if ram size becomes an issue. General web browsing, word processing that sort of things. 7-10 years.

 

[loki1944]

I built my PC last year and i use it for both gaming and using 3D softwares (3ds max, Maya, etc.)

My Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600
GPU: Galax Geforce GTX 1070 EX
Motherboard: Asus Prime B450 M-A
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3000mhz
HDD: WD Blue 2TB
SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 250GB

With new games demanding more and more ridiculous requirements to run them (Metro Exodus recommended GPU is GTX 1070), just how long will my current build last before i need new components?

With the increasingly slow pace of CPU improvement, particularly for gaming, that CPU should see you for at least another 6 years, even more if current tortoise pace of CPU evolution continues. I have a system that is about 10 years old (i7 960) and is still fantastic for gaming; even with the limitation of its PCIE 2.0 motherboard and DDR3 RAM running @1400Mhz it trades blows with my i7 6000 and 7000 series CPU based systems. As far as RAM amount, we are just now seeing a significant number of games that can dip over 8GB, so that 16GB will most likely last you quite a while. The GPU is really the only thing that will need more rapid replacing, but that depends entirely on what resolution you play at and how many FPS you want. My 780Ti and 290X of 2013 lineage are still great cards for 1080p High/Very High 90% of the time, so they have lasted 6 years so far for me, but you may not be satisfied with 30-70 FPS in modern games, or you want to play at higher resolutions, if so you will probably upgrade in 2-3 years as far as the GPU.

 

[Wolfshadw]

If it's any consolation, I just upgraded my system from an Intel Core I5-760 and NVidia Geforce 8800GTS-640 a few months back. Not that I do a lot of gaming anymore, but that system is still perfectly functional. The only reason for upgrading was that the processor does not have the AVX instruction set so it wouldn't run VR. Otherwise I'd still be using it.

-Wolf sends