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Is my rig future proof? Opinions please 
Rig:
Intel Core i7-5960X 8 core OC to 4GHz probably (will never need upgrading within 10 years)
Corsair Hydro H100i Extreme cooler (special liquid coolant never needs replacing)
Gigabyte LGA2011-V3 GA X99 UD4 (pretty basic, more than enough. Replace only if it dies)
16GB DDR4 G-Skill Ripjaws 3200MHz CL16 (will never need upgrading perhaps ever, can always add 4 more DIMMs)
4GB Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor X Tri X (upgrade in 5-6 years assuming it's needed)
2x 2TB Seagate Hybrid SATA III 6Gb/s 7.8GB NAND Flash Cache and 64MB HDD Cache (never need upgrading, one is purely a backup)
Cosair Professional Series AX1200i (plenty of headroom for a second GPU or future GPU's)
Total is $3,100. If I spend less now then I will spend some more later and either way I will reach the $3k mark. If I get an ok quad core for $300 and upgrade my CPU in 5 years, Intel typically sells their CPU's for $500-1000, so the CPU for $1000 makes no difference.
Current gen uses 4-8 cores "un"optimized and are low power, so full CPU power probably won't be touched til even the next gen (PS5 lol). But the next "next gen" probably won't have consoles at all seeing how hard it was to make a $400 PS4 with 4 year old tech. Perhaps it will be steam machines mainly?
It's my hope that the parts on this rig will still be great 6-7 years from now and probably will never become obsolete before I simply abandon the computer for a new one in a decade. If I get an amazing computer now, I will have no desire to "have the best rig" later on due to sentimentality. It's like a car fetish lol. The power I get now allows me the grace of sentimentality later, like with old cars that "still have their uses" in an age of efficiency and low-power. This is how it's been with my laptop!
What do you all think?
Watch the language. - G
Rig:
Intel Core i7-5960X 8 core OC to 4GHz probably (will never need upgrading within 10 years)
Corsair Hydro H100i Extreme cooler (special liquid coolant never needs replacing)
Gigabyte LGA2011-V3 GA X99 UD4 (pretty basic, more than enough. Replace only if it dies)
16GB DDR4 G-Skill Ripjaws 3200MHz CL16 (will never need upgrading perhaps ever, can always add 4 more DIMMs)
4GB Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor X Tri X (upgrade in 5-6 years assuming it's needed)
2x 2TB Seagate Hybrid SATA III 6Gb/s 7.8GB NAND Flash Cache and 64MB HDD Cache (never need upgrading, one is purely a backup)
Cosair Professional Series AX1200i (plenty of headroom for a second GPU or future GPU's)
Total is $3,100. If I spend less now then I will spend some more later and either way I will reach the $3k mark. If I get an ok quad core for $300 and upgrade my CPU in 5 years, Intel typically sells their CPU's for $500-1000, so the CPU for $1000 makes no difference.
Current gen uses 4-8 cores "un"optimized and are low power, so full CPU power probably won't be touched til even the next gen (PS5 lol). But the next "next gen" probably won't have consoles at all seeing how hard it was to make a $400 PS4 with 4 year old tech. Perhaps it will be steam machines mainly?
It's my hope that the parts on this rig will still be great 6-7 years from now and probably will never become obsolete before I simply abandon the computer for a new one in a decade. If I get an amazing computer now, I will have no desire to "have the best rig" later on due to sentimentality. It's like a car fetish lol. The power I get now allows me the grace of sentimentality later, like with old cars that "still have their uses" in an age of efficiency and low-power. This is how it's been with my laptop!
What do you all think?
Watch the language. - G
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