Since the minimum and recommended specs for Starfield have come out, I’ve been budgeting to do a big upgrade on my PC with an AMD 6800 xt and a fancy new 1 TB SSD (which is the first game I’ve ever seen that requires an SSD) just so I can run the game in all it’s space epicness.
What was the game that you were so excited for that you made the jump to upgrade your PC to the next gen of hardware? New or old!
A few games have gotten me to do that over the years.
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition was what finally convinced me to fit a 1TB SSD, and Control was what convinced me it was finally time to get a ray-tracing card.
When the demo for RE4 Remake came out and it was just a total slideshow, I uninstalled it and began my journey. My i7 lasted well over 10 years, it got the full 10 gun salute
I always build a new PC whnen there is a new Diablo game
I tend to build a new PC every time a new Diablo game drops
My first PC ever was built because I really wanted to play modded Skyrim, Minecraft, and Metro 2033. i3 3225 and a 7750, later upgraded to a 2500k with a 7950. That machine was insanely badass. When the i5 and 7950 were overclocked, they outperformed my brother’s 4th gen i5 with a 970.
Cyberpunk 2077, bought it on sale and my 125 gb SSD, FX8350 and rx580 weren’t terribly happy. Grabbed a used ryzen 3600 and used 2080 super for $200. Board, ram, and m.2 drive for about the same new. Now I’m debating the 5600xcd or just hold off till I want the AM5 chips, that’ll depend on how Starfield runs.
For me, it was Cyberpunk 2077. I wanted to run around Night City with ultra graphics and raytracing. Too bad it launched in such a badly optimized state.
Control got me to build a new PC. I had an average laptop before, but sold the laptop and built a PC with a 3080 in it for the sweet raytracing. Managed to pick the 3080 up at RRP before all the Crypto boom started, so I was stoked! Still going very strong after almost 3 years.
While this wasn’t the sole reason (I was just kinda due for an upgrade anyway), I was interested in playing Half-life Alyx and Star Wars Squadrons in VR.
Half life alyx was the inspiration for me too. In the end I mostly play Slay the spire and cities skylines on it…
guild wars 2. it’s always guild wars 2 I come back to…
Yep. And somehow you’re always still bottlenecked by something…
Like most MMOs, it’s pretty CPU heavy, and it just goes up when more and more players are onscreen.
I read that it’s now on DX11, does that help? XD
DCS World is the biggest reason that my most recent build had 64Gb of RAM.
