That's whats killed the passion for me. The narrative now is either re-hasing the same game as last year or if it's a new IP the formula is take the least amount of risk while making the most amount of money.

Even early 3d games it seemed like the developers where actually competeting to make the best game and to destroy there competitor. Now it's robot wal-mart assemble line development (cookie cutter game with minimumal risk drawn out for as much profit as possible).

I actually a few months ago and picked up an old game informer magazine that had the best games of 2002 and it actual made me a little sad. The top 10 AAA games of 2002 where arguably as good as the entire current generation of consoles top 10 combined for this entire generation........ (that's embarassing)

Since AMD is doing yearly releases instead of having to sit on processors forever (FX series was like 4-5 years), it's causing the previous generations to actually lower in price. My local hardware store for example has last years 8 core 2700X for only $130 (can't beat that value)

Very good post. The bribes and patients really started to hurt AMD really badly in the 2009 to 2014 range.

AMD becoming the partner for both of the 8th gen consoles (along with Intel easing up due to the lawsuit) allow AMD to dump a good amount of money into Ryzen development in the 2013-2015 span.

Most modern games are running on modified engines that are 2014-2015 era so I don't see the need to upgrade a 1060 if your happy with the current performance (especially if your still doing 1080p)

I personally would wait till closer to next generation if the current performance your getting is acceptable.

No reason. Games should run fine (reality is most games in 2019 are running/developed on modified game engines that are 3+ years old).

I would keep your system till the next generation of consoles/game engines roll out in early 2021 then go from there.

Well considering you posted like two thousands dollars worth of parts, yeah I would sure hope so.

It will last as long as you want it too. The next gen consoles won't exactly be highend (probably on par with a lower-end 6 core desktop processor and GPU will probably be around third party 2060 level performance) so there shouldn't be any issues on your end

That was me that said that. Modern resolution doesn't necessarily mean 4k. The most popular resolution people are jumping to is 1440p VA panels. It's significantly more sharp than 1080p but doesn't cripple your frames like 4k. I went from 60hz 1080p IPS panel to a 144hz 1440p VA panel and it literally felt like I was jumping an entire generation (difference was huge).

I didn't say you had to but I said in a few years you might decide to or at least contemplate it with new game engines guaranteeing 1440p/4k textures in the game files.

In regards to a higher-end card bottlenecking by your CPU your CPU will hold it back a decent amount but it's moot point because at 1080p your going to crush these games regardless (basically with your CPU you might get 110 FPS but if you had a more modern CPU you'd get 140FPS, at that point it's like big deal your still crushing the game).

It's also moot because 1. If you did move to a higher resolution that actually stress the card higher resolution are less demanding/dependant on the CPU and 2. If 2021 rolls around and you want to do an affordable partial rebuild of your computer (replace CPU/Ram/Motherboard but keep everything else) your not gonna want to put a crappy card in there to complement it

I never played this game but it must be extremely poorly optimized. Your videocard (even though it's older) is still faster than a modern day GTX 1050, there's no reason to be playing games on low settings with it regardless of it's age

Of the two you listed the VP2468 is overall the better of the two, especially in color accuracy.

i7-3820 is still a good CPU (4 core with 8 threads boosted to 3.8ghz). It might be older but it's still way faster than the consoles CPU. It's probably on par with a modern AMD 2400/3400G which is brand new over $100 so your 3820 isn't exactly obsolete.

My i7 3770k is basically the same as your CPU and I can run 1080p high settings on like every modern game and my GPU is almost 6 years old (R9 290X).

If your just doing 1080p 60FPS then video card upgrade will put you back in business. If you want absolute bang for your buck I would just buy a used GTX 1070 for $170-200 and call it a day. It's performance is on par with a modern 1660 Ti which runs for $100 more brand new.

Your actually in a good situation right now. You can buy really any modern mid tier card from the last 2-3 years and it will be a big jump over what you got (cards like the 1060/1070, 1660, RX480/580....ect) and you can wait to do a new system build when the next generation of game engines/consoles roll out in 2021. By then you'll have a better idea of what games will want/require, will have an idea if you want to jump to a more modern resolution, and there will be at least 1 if not 2 more generations of CPU/GPU out by then.