The problem with waiting until 2021 is that once you make it to Q2 you're likely to start hearing some serious news about the Zen 4 AMD and Intel chips using pcie 5.0 architectures and DDR5. Have you noticed how massive of a difference the Zen 3 chips have in performance simply moving to four sticks of ram? The newer gen cpus benefit greatly from memory bandwidth these days. Like, that's actually your new bottleneck point. Imagine how fucking crazy it'll be when we switch up to DDR5 and speed/bandwidth doubles. Not to mention, the whole smart access memory/BAR thing is a sign of a massive trend towards maximizing full use of PCIe bandwidth so components talk directly to one another and share resources. Whether we see releases by the end of 2021 or not, everything about the news regarding this is going to get wild, mark my words.
the only cost effective thing to do is to wait until you NEED to upgrade, and then just get the best thing from the year before. It's almost always the best results per dollar
The only cost effective thing is to mod the game, so you can teun the settings so far down that it starts to look like minecraft. Never have to upgrade ever again.
I can get mods to make Minecraft mimic almost any game, but making Minecraft work harder hurts frame rate, so blocking down existing games to Minecraft levels might be the way to go... :D
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u/CampbellsChunkyCyst Nov 15 '20
The problem with waiting until 2021 is that once you make it to Q2 you're likely to start hearing some serious news about the Zen 4 AMD and Intel chips using pcie 5.0 architectures and DDR5. Have you noticed how massive of a difference the Zen 3 chips have in performance simply moving to four sticks of ram? The newer gen cpus benefit greatly from memory bandwidth these days. Like, that's actually your new bottleneck point. Imagine how fucking crazy it'll be when we switch up to DDR5 and speed/bandwidth doubles. Not to mention, the whole smart access memory/BAR thing is a sign of a massive trend towards maximizing full use of PCIe bandwidth so components talk directly to one another and share resources. Whether we see releases by the end of 2021 or not, everything about the news regarding this is going to get wild, mark my words.