(09-23-2014, 06:26 AM)DatKid20 Wrote:(09-23-2014, 06:18 AM)teh_speleegn_polease Wrote: To all those who responded to my question about low-end laptops: thanks for the suggestions, I'll give it some thought. Probably will end up not buying anything and spending those 3 weeks a year I'm away being bored to death, but whatever.Skylake and Broad well are coming next year. Broadwell will mostly be for mobile devices like laptops and tablets.
Also, I'm now torn between upgrading to a GTX 970 sometime soon or waiting till next gen. (Currently I have a 680.) So far, there haven't been too many situations where I felt like I really needed an upgrade... Except when playing Skyrim with an ENB and about a total of 50 graphics mods, and never being bothered to optimise anything at all, resulting in about 30-50 FPS depending on location... But I'm sure that would be easily avoidable.
At the same time, getting a 970 would almost completely eliminate me having to bother with graphics at all. Which would be especially helpful now that I have a 120Hz monitor: sometimes, I need to find a trade-off between quality and FPS; if I upgrade, I don't expect to have to worry about it except in some really demanding games/situations.
The low price of the 970 is also an argument in favour of an upgrade: even though it is almost at the top of the current CPU high-end ladder, topped only by the 980, perhaps Titan Black/780Ti (if that), and maybe a couple AMD cards I know little about, it still only costs just over $300. Compare that with the Titan's launching price of $1000, and even the 780's and 780Ti's - both of which retailed at over $600 at launch.
I wish Broadwell were here. Or better still, Skylake. I feel like I'm often bottlenecked by my CPU, but upgrading now seems rather stupid, especially since the per-core performance of the extreme models is not very far above that of my current CPU - I'd just be paying for 12 extra cores, which I don't really need.
Tl;dr: me ranting about whether to upgrade from my 680 to a 970 or not. Then me ranting about how I want to upgrade my CPU but don't need extra cores, so I have to wait for Broadwell at the very least, and perhaps Skylake. Then me using the tldr as an opportunity to rant some more.
Yeah, that means I'll have to wait for Skylake. And "next year" most likely means that the higher-end models will be coming out towards the very end of the year... *sigh* Oh well.
>mfw I have no face