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Originally Posted by Deviaant
Sorry guys I'll be the first to admit when it comes to computers I'm out of my league. Am I over spending on a gaming rig at a budget of $4k? I'm just trying to avoid upgrading again in a "short" amount of time.
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I think it depends on how far you want to go; what your target experience is. $4k seems like overkill to me at one go, as mentioned getting a reasonably fast CPU without blowing the bank on the crazy bleeding edge is fine for gaming.
I don't think there's any reason to spend $1400 on a 10 core i9 processor instead of $450 on an i7-8700K.
As mentioned it's mostly about the video card and the monitor you want to drive. If you're fine with a 1440p class monitor a 1080Ti would be all you'll need, maybe replacing just the video card in 2-3 years.
If you want to get a 4K monitor and drive it at 144Hz refresh rates, then you'll need 2 of them and will still have to turn down the quality to get that frame rate. Make that an ultra wide, and no way you'll be getting 144Hz even with two cards.
If you aren't obsessed with framerate and 60fps is fine, a 1080Ti would probably even be ok for most games on a 4K monitor, might need two for an ultrawide monitor.
Keeping in mind that SLI can sometimes be problematic, not all games support it well or even at all right away.
But I think the pattern a lot of us follow is:
- Get good quality surrounding components. A good case, a really good efficient power supply, good quality SSD with good warranty and a spinning drive for larger media files and stuff where speed doesn't matter. External sound card sometimes. Keep these components for a long time (5+ years). Monitors may fall into this class for some.
- Update the CPU/Motherboard/Memory combo when there's really significant jump in performance. Nowadays you can easily wait 3 generations of CPUs without upgrading and not really notice much difference especially for gaming. If you're doing video encoding or compiling code or something else that benefits from higher core counts (6 or 8 vs 4 cores) then one might upgrade more often.
- Update the video card more often, every year or two. Sometimes in sync with a monitor update (i.e. going from a 980 class and 1080p to a 1080 class for a 1440p)