Appreciate there's a lot of these at the moment, but I'm looking for some friendly advice / input at what feels like an incredily poor time to be considering an upgrade / new build.
I planned to do a new build towards the end of this year in order to run games like Watchdogs, Assassins Creed and Cyberpunk in their higher settings - my current system (listed below) was originally built in 2012 and whilst it has had some upgrades here and there over the years, it barely meets minimum requirements for latest titles such as these.
However, I never envisaged the situation we find ourselves in, whereby the the latest CPU and GPU releases are almost impossible to get your hands on and current tech also seems price inflated. So I find myself in a tricky situation; I'd still like to improve my system and play these games, but I feel a bit disappointed that if I went ahead with a new build now it wouldn't be utilising the latest releases.
So based on my current system, is there anything I can do to squeeze out a bit more life and run the latest titles until the issues within the industry resolve, or do I accept I need to push ahead with a new build using whatever is currently available (which would likely still be a huge improvement on my current system).
Intel i5-3570k (oc'd to 4.2GHz)
Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H DDR3 Mobo
16GB 1866MHz DDR3 CL10
GTX 980ti
Corsair H100i v2
512GB + 256GB 830 series SSD
Super Flower Leadex platinum 850w
Corsair Carbide 500R
Currently using a 27" 1440p 60Hz monitor - refersh rate never been vital for the type of games I played, until recently I started playing Valorant so potentially looking to upgrade here as well for higher refresh rate.
Budget wise I set aside ~£2k excluding any monitor upgrade.
I planned to do a new build towards the end of this year in order to run games like Watchdogs, Assassins Creed and Cyberpunk in their higher settings - my current system (listed below) was originally built in 2012 and whilst it has had some upgrades here and there over the years, it barely meets minimum requirements for latest titles such as these.
However, I never envisaged the situation we find ourselves in, whereby the the latest CPU and GPU releases are almost impossible to get your hands on and current tech also seems price inflated. So I find myself in a tricky situation; I'd still like to improve my system and play these games, but I feel a bit disappointed that if I went ahead with a new build now it wouldn't be utilising the latest releases.
So based on my current system, is there anything I can do to squeeze out a bit more life and run the latest titles until the issues within the industry resolve, or do I accept I need to push ahead with a new build using whatever is currently available (which would likely still be a huge improvement on my current system).
Intel i5-3570k (oc'd to 4.2GHz)
Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H DDR3 Mobo
16GB 1866MHz DDR3 CL10
GTX 980ti
Corsair H100i v2
512GB + 256GB 830 series SSD
Super Flower Leadex platinum 850w
Corsair Carbide 500R
Currently using a 27" 1440p 60Hz monitor - refersh rate never been vital for the type of games I played, until recently I started playing Valorant so potentially looking to upgrade here as well for higher refresh rate.
Budget wise I set aside ~£2k excluding any monitor upgrade.