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Just a note, I've been thinking about this quite a lot recently, this is especially pertinent with those early on in their gaming / computing needs.
When I started gaming, I was in a council funded shared house in a derelict part of the country, living on around £25 a week I got from the government. Within a few years, I had a job and was living in my own apartment with a long term girlfriend, wasn't earning much money at all, but my life had massively changed for the better, and in a way I never expected.
My first gaming PC was a very entry level affair with all AMD parts, and they were all budget. Move along a few years and I was entering mid range setups.
Similarly, I never thought I'd end up interested in music production, or having my own media server. These are just things I never saw coming.
My point is, with regards to futureproofing, there is the core platform of the build (PSU, Motherboard, CPU, RAM (to some extent, but this is easy to upgrade) and Case that are really important to get right at the outset.
The reason being is that a decently specced PC will have a strong platform that can support any upgrades you wish to do in the future. These are things like GPU and monitor mainly. But a well designed PC should happily last you for 7 - 10 years with a couple of GPU / Monitor upgrades during that time, perhaps more RAM if you find you're moving more into streaming or something like that.
I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd ever spend over a couple of hundred quid on a monitor. For years I had basic office monitors at 60Hz and made do. Then as my budget started to change, I found that I was considering far higher specced gaming monitors and higher tiered GPU's to boot.
A lot can happen in that 7 - 10 year lifespan of your PC. Especially if you're in the Uni / College days, you could be living with your parents, scraping by on your student loan one month, and the next you could easily walk out of Uni into your first job earning 50k a year within a year or so, thinking nothing of suddenly buying a £1500 top tier 8k gaming monitor, it happens a lot. My point is, prepare for the future, prepare for your budget and your goals changing, concentrate on building a platform that will support anything you choose to do in the future. The GPU / Monitor / RAM, you can upgrade at any time, so long as your platform is strong enough to support it.
Keep the faith, hope for brighter things, play the games, frag the demons!
Just a note, I've been thinking about this quite a lot recently, this is especially pertinent with those early on in their gaming / computing needs.
When I started gaming, I was in a council funded shared house in a derelict part of the country, living on around £25 a week I got from the government. Within a few years, I had a job and was living in my own apartment with a long term girlfriend, wasn't earning much money at all, but my life had massively changed for the better, and in a way I never expected.
My first gaming PC was a very entry level affair with all AMD parts, and they were all budget. Move along a few years and I was entering mid range setups.
Similarly, I never thought I'd end up interested in music production, or having my own media server. These are just things I never saw coming.
My point is, with regards to futureproofing, there is the core platform of the build (PSU, Motherboard, CPU, RAM (to some extent, but this is easy to upgrade) and Case that are really important to get right at the outset.
The reason being is that a decently specced PC will have a strong platform that can support any upgrades you wish to do in the future. These are things like GPU and monitor mainly. But a well designed PC should happily last you for 7 - 10 years with a couple of GPU / Monitor upgrades during that time, perhaps more RAM if you find you're moving more into streaming or something like that.
I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd ever spend over a couple of hundred quid on a monitor. For years I had basic office monitors at 60Hz and made do. Then as my budget started to change, I found that I was considering far higher specced gaming monitors and higher tiered GPU's to boot.
A lot can happen in that 7 - 10 year lifespan of your PC. Especially if you're in the Uni / College days, you could be living with your parents, scraping by on your student loan one month, and the next you could easily walk out of Uni into your first job earning 50k a year within a year or so, thinking nothing of suddenly buying a £1500 top tier 8k gaming monitor, it happens a lot. My point is, prepare for the future, prepare for your budget and your goals changing, concentrate on building a platform that will support anything you choose to do in the future. The GPU / Monitor / RAM, you can upgrade at any time, so long as your platform is strong enough to support it.
Keep the faith, hope for brighter things, play the games, frag the demons!
