I fully understand your concerns.
But Intel milked the market for many years, releasing rehashed versions of their CPUs.
Performance of CPUs had come to a point, where clockspeed couldn't be increased much more, and only more cores could give more performance. AMD released Ryzen, with more cores at better prices than Intel had and that raised the bar. 4 core CPUs are quickly becoming obsolete now, the new consoles has a lot of CPU-power, compared to 4 core I5s, and this will probably begin to show in upcoming games from now on.
Whether BF-games can be better optimized is hard to tell. No other games has destruction on the level of BF, so it's hard to compare with anything else.
People having newer CPUs (more cores), can argue that games ought to use them...
@cso7777 wrote:I fully understand your concerns.
But Intel milked the market for many years, releasing rehashed versions of their CPUs.
Performance of CPUs had come to a point, where clockspeed couldn't be increased much more, and only more cores could give more performance. AMD released Ryzen, with more cores at better prices than Intel had and that raised the bar. 4 core CPUs are quickly becoming obsolete now, the new consoles has a lot of CPU-power, compared to 4 core I5s, and this will probably begin to show in upcoming games from now on.
Whether BF-games can be better optimized is hard to tell. No other games has destruction on the level of BF, so it's hard to compare with anything else.
People having newer CPUs (more cores), can argue that games ought to use them...
Yes, I absolutely welcome the Ryzen revolution into our lives.
I am just wondering if the current hardware availability issue will make it really hard to have a BF6-ready machine for those who like me have an older system (I build this PC for BF4 with only the graphics card being upgraded to 1050ti
I understand your concerns and the current GPU-situation are a disgrace.
CPUs and other components are possible to get by (only some models are hard to find) and hopefully things will improve in the next quarters for GPUs.
But having a machine build for BF4, still running today, is actually not bad. You got value for your money...
Indeed, I picked every piece my myself and had the retailer assemble it and send it to me.
The initial machine cost around 800-900 euros (could had taken a cheaper motherboard and less watts on the power supply in hindsight). Later I doubled the memory, added a second SSD exclusively for BF and WoWarcraft, more memory (from 8GB to 16) and I replaced the Graphics card with a 1050ti after the previous one started to misbehave if I remember.
As long as one does not try to have the graphics at high settings from the purchase to retirment, the machine lasts long enough
