If you're one of those pc builders who
agones over every component you select
to make sure that everything you have is the latest and the greatest it can be
really frustrating when you hear about a new product release a couple months
later kind of like when apple announces some incremental update at a press event
right after you finally bought the
iure so you feel like part of the incd
technology does indeed move very quickly so many people wonder if the
future trying to proof their pcs is a good idea
to try to stay ahead of the curve i mean when you think about it the future is
going to happen at some point so in that sense future proofing makes about as
much sense as trying to death proof your body or tax proof your income but does
it really extend the lifespan of your pc
and by how long to answer that question let's take a
look at some strategies that people who try to future proof their pcs use many
are interested in being early adopters of a just released platform that
supports something like a new type of memory others might invest in a super
beefy power Supply for example and a motherboard with lots of expansion slots
for a future multi GPU setup or a type
of expansion card that doesn't exist today.
of why our philosophy is to be more concerned about value for the money than
future proofing let's start with your builds kud gross the uh graphics card
well GPU technology tends to advance pretty quickly so unless a new
architecture that promises significantly higher performance is right around the
corner it makes more sense to the best thing you can afford comfortably now and
only prepare for sli or cross with a price your power supply if you
know that you'll be able to afford a second card soon after actually and have
the monitor set up to take advantage of it otherwise you might end up like a lot
of people who dropped a bunch of money on an expensive power supply and more
expensive motherboard but never ended up adding a second graphics card after all
because you probably won't be buying a second graphics card that's identical to
what you have two years down the road unless you're comfortable buying
something used anyway which if you're the sort of bleeding edge type person
doesn't really fit into your customer profile so think about that but how
about your CPU let's suppose you want to someh make that your CPU will trade
punches with whatever comes out in three or four years well the nice thing is
that processors these days are generally very efficient so as long as buying a
mid or an upper tier CPU like an unlocked k processor from Intel you have
chip that will probably last you for a few years regardless of whether
you're actively thinking about future proofing and since CPU sockets change
quite frequently it is highly likely
that you would end up locked into whatever processor architecture you're
buying or at best the next one coming
making your future proofing of your motherboard and CPU pretty pointless
it's also worth thinking about whether trying to future proof pc with the
newest stuff will result in a real world performance boost for example faster
memory speeds or pci express speeds look
good on paper but often result in little to zero performance gain in the real
world which you can learn more about here and by the time games or other
programs mature to the point where they might be able to take advantage of it
you'll probably be wanting to upgrade a lot of your other components anyway
Really high-end RAM with the absolute fastest speeds also typically comes at a
hefty price premium making it a galactic waste of money for most people the point
here is that instead of worrying too much about how viable your rig will be
in a few years compared to what everyone else is building at that time instead of
focusing on having a reasonable upgrade path for a system you can afford today
for example i would spend the extra $6
or whatever it is on a motherboard that has a couple of extra RAM sls because
memory upgrades are something that are likely to occur over the lifespan of a
computer and another thing for example if you're a person who tends to eat
through hard drive space maybe make sure that you buy a case that has quite a few
well placed drive slots that are easy to get at so that your future expansion
will be relatively easy the thing I don't recommend is spending a fortune on
something that's marginally better ‏you could have just pocketed the money I
waited a couple years for moore's law to continue its onward death march and get
something equivalent or better than what you would have been able to afford with
the money that you saved effectively getting what you did get and what you're
able to get later for the same amount of money because the cold hard truth of it
is there's pretty much nothing you can
do to future proof a computer and often the better value to go about is to
actually trade in or sell your old parts every two or years and upgrade that way
if you want to stay on the bleeding edge
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