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If you're one of those pc builders who

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agones over every component you select

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to make sure that everything you have is the latest and the greatest it can be

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really frustrating when you hear about a new product release a couple months

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later kind of like when apple announces some incremental update at a press event

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right after you finally bought the

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iure so you feel like part of the incd

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technology does indeed move very quickly so many people wonder if the

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future trying to proof their pcs is a good idea

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to try to stay ahead of the curve i mean when you think about it the future is

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going to happen at some point so in that sense future proofing makes about as

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much sense as trying to death proof your body or tax proof your income but does

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it really extend the lifespan of your pc

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and by how long to answer that question let's take a

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look at some strategies that people who try to future proof their pcs use many

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are interested in being early adopters of a just released platform that

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supports something like a new type of memory others might invest in a super

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beefy power Supply for example and a motherboard with lots of expansion slots

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for a future multi GPU setup or a type

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of expansion card that doesn't exist today.

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of why our philosophy is to be more concerned about value for the money than

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future proofing let's start with your builds kud gross the uh graphics card

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well GPU technology tends to advance pretty quickly so unless a new

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architecture that promises significantly higher performance is right around the

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corner it makes more sense to the best thing you can afford comfortably now and

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only prepare for sli or cross with a price your power supply if you

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know that you'll be able to afford a second card soon after actually and have

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the monitor set up to take advantage of it otherwise you might end up like a lot

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of people who dropped a bunch of money on an expensive power supply and more

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expensive motherboard but never ended up adding a second graphics card after all

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because you probably won't be buying a second graphics card that's identical to

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what you have two years down the road unless you're comfortable buying

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something used anyway which if you're the sort of bleeding edge type person

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doesn't really fit into your customer profile so think about that but how

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about your CPU let's suppose you want to someh make that your CPU will trade

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punches with whatever comes out in three or four years well the nice thing is

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that processors these days are generally very efficient so as long as buying a

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mid or an upper tier CPU like an unlocked k processor from Intel you have

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chip that will probably last you for a few years regardless of whether

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you're actively thinking about future proofing and since CPU sockets change

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quite frequently it is highly likely

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that you would end up locked into whatever processor architecture you're

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buying or at best the next one coming

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making your future proofing of your motherboard and CPU pretty pointless

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it's also worth thinking about whether trying to future proof pc with the

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newest stuff will result in a real world performance boost for example faster

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memory speeds or pci express speeds look

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good on paper but often result in little to zero performance gain in the real

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world which you can learn more about here and by the time games or other

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programs mature to the point where they might be able to take advantage of it

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you'll probably be wanting to upgrade a lot of your other components anyway

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Really high-end RAM with the absolute fastest speeds also typically comes at a

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hefty price premium making it a galactic waste of money for most people the point

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here is that instead of worrying too much about how viable your rig will be

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in a few years compared to what everyone else is building at that time instead of

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focusing on having a reasonable upgrade path for a system you can afford today

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for example i would spend the extra $6

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or whatever it is on a motherboard that has a couple of extra RAM sls because

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memory upgrades are something that are likely to occur over the lifespan of a

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computer and another thing for example if you're a person who tends to eat

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through hard drive space maybe make sure that you buy a case that has quite a few

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well placed drive slots that are easy to get at so that your future expansion

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will be relatively easy the thing I don't recommend is spending a fortune on

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something that's marginally better ‏you could have just pocketed the money I

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waited a couple years for moore's law to continue its onward death march and get

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something equivalent or better than what you would have been able to afford with

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the money that you saved effectively getting what you did get and what you're

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able to get later for the same amount of money because the cold hard truth of it

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is there's pretty much nothing you can

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do to future proof a computer and often the better value to go about is to

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actually trade in or sell your old parts every two or years and upgrade that way

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if you want to stay on the bleeding edge

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