Well... today I've received the parts to build a new desktop computer. Nothing wrong there yet. Tomorrow I'll unpack everything and build the computer. The problem is that I've been having a nasty bout of avarice.
I've ordered a GTX 1060 as a gaming card. This thing is as powerful as a GTX 980 (from the previous generation), at half the price. These cards run all current games at 1920x1080 @ Ultra/Max settings and 60 FPS, at least.
Still, I'm wondering: should I spend the extra money and go for a GTX 1070?
Then I'm thinking: well, these are the games I'm going to play in the near future, and it will take me a year or three:
(If you're interested)
Every single one of the games I'm going to play would have run, settings maxed out, on my old GTX 560 Ti from 2011, except for the newest four. Even those could have been made to run, when using lower settings. Most of the games will even run on my laptop, for god's sake.
In short, the GTX 1060, which is three times as fast as the GTX 560 Ti, will crush those games at 1920x1080. Then why do I feel as if I still want a GTX 1070?
I'm sure it's pure greed, just because I can.
It'll take me a few months of playing those games and getting used to the fact that everything runs at a blazing speed already, which will make me forget the computer in the end. It was like that with the previous one as well, and I kept it for 8 years (except for swapping the graphics card for the GTX 560 Ti midway through). I have a feeling that this system will last me at least 5 years again; if I can swap the card in 3-4 years, it'll last 8, just like last time.