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Originally Posted by Dazrin
I am in about the same boat as you, my 9+ year old PC needs to be upgraded. It has had an SSD added, some extra RAM, and a couple video card upgrades (hand-me-downs from a friend currently a Radeon 5870 noisemaker) but is otherwise unchanged since I got it in 2007. I would keep running it but it has begun to have issues on startup and is finally feeling very slow. My current PC has a Q6600 and started with a GeForce 8800GTS, this iteration I will probably end up with the i5-6600 or i7-6700 and a 1070. I probably won't even bother getting the K series since the only benefit is overclocking (meh.)
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Same here. My PC:
2008 Original: C2D E8500, 9600GT, 8GB, 74GB 10K RPM boot disk, 1TB HDD.
2011 Upgrade: C2Q Q8400 (second hand), GTX 560 Ti, 16GB, 128GB SSD, 2x 1TB HDD.
So I swapped out the CPU (second hand; was already out of production), graphics card, boot disk, and added 8GB RAM and an HDD. I sold it a few months ago, but that setup was (is) still faster than many new starter systems, especially if such a system doesn't have an SSD.
I've moved to an i7-6700K (cheaper than non-K on black Friday, and a bit faster too) and a GTX 1070 with 32GB of RAM. I expect to be able to use this system until 2024 or so, because I'm not afraid to run a game at "High" instead of "Ultra", or even to drop the resolution to 1280x800 on a 1920x1200 screen.
As long as a system delivers 45+ frames per second at the better settings, at 1920x1200 or 1280x800, I'm good. If I need to drop into Medium at 1280x800, I'm going to look for an upgrade.
Of course I could have gone even higher up the chain, getting an 8-core Xeon, a GTX 1080, 64GB RAM.... but there is a point at which a new computer becomes ridiculous for home use if you don't use it for some very special tasks. This system is high-end, but not yet in the "ZOMG, YOU CAN RUN THE ENTIRE INTERNET ON IT!" category.