6 cores 12 threads seems to be the sweet spot, especially if your primarly focused on singler player based games. Like others have said IPC and clockspeed are the more important factors. For example ...

@horgen said: Damn- GTX 970. Does it even reach minimum requirement these days?970 is old but it's technically like 4x faster than what the last gen consoles had and they still make modern titles for ...

@NoodleFighter said:The RTX 2060 Super being able to keep up with the PS5 and Xbox Series X is even more of an eye opener. Sony and Microsoft will have to hope that ray tracing doesn't play a role in...

@eoten said: Most people I've spoken to who say FFVII is the best in the series never really played VI. I played both a few months ago, to completion to see the differences looking back and I found VI...

@Jag85 said:Final Fantasy VII. Nothing else to date has been able to match the experience of playing FFVII for the first time back in 1997. I had no interest in RPGs up until FFVII came along and open...

i9s look meh but i5 and i7s look solid 10 series i5/i7s will have added hyperthreading, higher all core boost than the ryzen 3000 series, and significant price decrease vs last gen

@the_bi99man said:Yeah, it's definitely not just "upscaled". They remade the whole game from the ground up. It's not gonna look like some modern, super detailed, photorealistic graphics kind of game ...

I hope so. Last decade AMD's excuse was not having any money to put into R&D but they can't use that excuse anymore (current gen consoles sold like crazy + they got the rights to the next gen, al...

@ulfrinn said:Maybe, but developers will actually have to start trying again.That's whats killed the passion for me. The narrative now is either re-hasing the same game as last year or if it's a new ...

@blaznwiipspman1 said:just saying...their cpus are the bomb nowadays. The ryzen 20xx series and now the 30xx series are putting up a serious fight against intel. Anyone else surprised at this? Im also...

@04dcarraher said:Was I surprised by that? No actually AMD in the past has always been a competitor and has beaten intel multiple times back in the day. The problem started when intel started buy up ...

Most modern games are running on modified engines that are 2014-2015 era so I don't see the need to upgrade a 1060 if your happy with the current performance (especially if your still doing 1080p)I pe...

@Pelon208 said: You think its future proof?Well considering you posted like two thousands dollars worth of parts, yeah I would sure hope so. It will last as long as you want it too. The next gen cons...

@t-unit said: Someone here said in a few years I may want to make the move to a higher resolution, but I don't have a use for 4K TV's and even if I did have a 4K TV, for PC games, I would stick w...

@t-unit said:GTX 770 and they've worked fine with the games I've wanted to play, even Arkham Knight, but had to play it on low settings. I never played this game but it must be extremely poorly optim...

Of the two you listed the VP2468 is overall the better of the two, especially in color accuracy.

i7-3820 is still a good CPU (4 core with 8 threads boosted to 3.8ghz). It might be older but it's still way faster than the consoles CPU. It's probably on par with a modern AMD 2400/3400G which is bra...

@mrbojangles25 said: Is this dated?Your CPU might be 5.5 years old but I still think its fine. Where so late into this generation that most games are running on modified engines that are anywhere fro...

8th gen started in 2013 so I would say the first 3 years for sure (2013, 2014, 2015). 2016 is when it starts getting a little dicey. I would look at titles from 2010-2015 era and check for videos/benc...

@horgen said:@urbangamez: 50$ less than 2080 initially had, right?In the United States is was exactly $100 less than the original 2080 third party brand launch and had two free games which almost all...