[Talk] Hypothetical upgrade 2-4 years out

[Daehawk]

Ok imagine that in 2-4 years someone wanted to upgrade their current 6 year old pc with parts available now. By then the current stuff would be cheaper and be a big improvement of their by then 10 year old parts. Each person can discuss their own ideas and comment on other builders / upgraders ideas.

Me right now.
ASUS P8P67 Deluxe mobo (yes I had to look up what I have because its so old I forgot..and Im old too)
intel i7 2400k
16 gig Gskill ripjaws
EVGA Nvidia GTX 700 SC OC ACX ...not sure if its 2gig or 4gig...think 2
Samsung SSDs and some mechanicals in there for storage.
Sound Blaster Z
29" ultrawide ASUS 299somethingsomething monitor

My idea may be totally out of sanity in 2 or 4 years but right now Im thinking if I do up grade it would be a new case, mobo, cpu, and video. Id keep the memory, monitor, and hard drives along with sound I have.

Mobo - Something Gigabyte. Just never been fully happy with ASUS since the first one arrived dead or something and its a tad weird in overclocking. I was fully in love with the Gigabyte I had before it.

CPU - Mmaaaaaaaaybe AMD Ryzen but more likely another Intel and probably a i7 4700 or 4800.

Video card - EVGA no matter what I think and maybe a 1070 ti. That is unless something else is out and the 1080 ti is much cheaper.

[Punisher]

You'd probably have to scrap your RAM as well since the form factor will probably change.

To be honest, I feel that 2-4 from now in PC years is a whole different world. Your best bet is to ask again when you are ready to upgrade and just save up for that day.

[Blackhawk]

Or do what I do as a path to upgrade as a poor person: look at it as three sets of components - motherboard/processor/RAM, video card, and 'other.' Upgrade one per year. I save $25/month (which isn't a huge investment for a primary hobby.) It's enough that I can cycle through the three one per year, especially since the replaced parts get moved to the kids' computers.

So next I upgrade my mobo/proc/RAM. Then a year later I upgrade my video card. The year after that I get drives, keyboards, cases, power supplies - that sort of thing. The next year it is back to the mobo/etc. It keeps it running strong, but never represents a single huge output of cash.

Sadly, I haven't been able to save at all in the last eight months or so because things have been so short that $25 often means food budget, but the core plan has kept me going for a decade when waiting to get all-in-one upgrades wouldn't have let me keep gaming.

[Daehawk]

Id love to have a 486DX4-100 again. one of my all time favorite chips along with a 486SX33 but I have to consider that Id like the machine to play stuff from 1994 - 1998 or so. So Im thinking Win 98 SE and perhaps a Pentium 166. Maybe even have to go P2. Dont think so though.