Bought a 6700XT for 400USD last year.

But the platform update required means that I possibly only do a budget MoBo + CPU for 400

Then PSU, case, ram, cooler are all additional.

My previous CPU lasted 7 years, my Ryzen 2600 is 5 years now. Which means I can’t play Remnant 2, Starfield or Lords of Fallen. Not the best optimised games, but a trend nonetheless.

Would future proof mean getting a top shelf Intel or the 7800x3D to last 7+ years? Or just go budget every 3 years?

Apologies if I don’t make sense the current market is confusing along with inflation and random price increases

  • bitwaba@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Thanks!

    I also use my HTPC as my file server, and plex server, but I’ll probably try to use it as my CloneHero machine too. I’m going to have a think about what I really want it to do and what kind of video performance I need.

    As an HTPC it’s connected to a 4k TV, so I’d like to make sure its able to hold 60fps on the desktop when watching movies (which shouldn’t be a problem). However I also want some decent GPU hardware to offload plex transcoding to.

    I don’t really see many good options for low profile video cards at the moment. I think what I’ll end up doing is getting 5700g like you said and using that for now, then when some low profile cards come out (at reasonable prices) that can handle AV1 encode, I’ll throw one of those in the machine.