Any new games for 2014 that will challenge current hardware?

[Easy Rhino]

I am not seeing any at the moment. It seems new games coming out will run easily on hardware that is a few years old. Also, lots of game development for the new consoles. Doesn't seem like any reason to upgrade this year again.

 

[D R E N]

Star Citizen. Chris Roberts has gone on record to say that the 780 would be a mid-range card for it. TPU has a club forum for it. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/the-star-citizen-clubhouse.189557/

 

[rtwjunkie]

the 780 would be a mid-range card for it

...a mid-range card. Oh my!

 

[R00kie]

it will be a mid range..... by the time the game comes out

 

[D R E N]

The beta will out at the end of this year. Game scheduled to be release early next year.

 

[R00kie]

@D R E N you just proved it

 

[Mindweaver]

Daylight uses the new Unreal engine 4 and the Division uses the Snowdrop engine. Ubisoft created a new engine for Watch dogs called Disrupt. All three engines look really good. This is all I can think of besides GTA 5 from last year we may get this year..... Oh and The new Batman game which looks really good. Just watched a new video of it and it looks great.

• Watch dogs
• Daylight
• Tom Clancy’s The Division

Snowdrop engine

New Batman

 

[R00kie]

The division wont come until next year though...

 

[15th Warlock]

Daylight uses the new Unreal engine 4 and the Division uses the Snowdrop engine. Ubisoft created a new engine for Watch dogs called Disrupt. All three engines look really good. This is all I can think of besides GTA 5 from last year we may get this year..... Oh and The new Batman game which looks really good. Just watched a new video of it and it looks great.

• Watch dogs
• Daylight
• Tom Clancy’s The Division

Snowdrop engine

New Batman

Batman looks so badass on that armor! I can't wait.

Oh, Star Citizen will support mantle supposedly, that game is one of the reasons I purchased my 290Xs, I'm expecting it to give them a nice workout, challenge accepted Mr. Roberts.

 

[Easy Rhino]

So after reading these responses I really do not have any reason to upgrade until 2015.

 

[Hilux SSRG]

So after reading these responses I really do not have any reason to upgrade until 2015.

Yeah, no reason really to upgrade until Skylake. I'm in the same boat with you - own a i7 920 that still can push games well.

 

[R00kie]

An FX owner here, have no reason to upgrade either, plus mantle support is gonna bring some substantial improvements to those games that support it, so thats a win-win for me

 

[15th Warlock]

So after reading these responses I really do not have any reason to upgrade until 2015.

I agree wholeheartedly to this statement

 

[Easy Rhino]

I agree wholeheartedly to this statement

this is actually nice for me. i am probably just going to do a small upgrade to my current rig and purchase a PS4 in the fall. somebody wake me when there are at least a half dozen games that will render by rig inoperable.

 

[64K]

I don't plan to upgrade my CPU and Mobo until Skylake. I hope it's worth the money. I think it will be. I will only be upgrading my GPU this year because I'm planning to go to 1440p 120 Hz in a couple of months.

 

[Mindweaver]

Batman looks so badass on that armor! I can't wait.

Oh, Star Citizen will support mantle supposedly, that game is one of the reasons I purchased my 290Xs, I'm expecting it to give them a nice workout, challenge accepted Mr. Roberts.

Yea man, I can wait to play it and SC, but SC still has a good way to go before they even start optimizing it's graphics. They are to busy adding content, but even so the graphics still look great.

this is actually nice for me. i am probably just going to do a small upgrade to my current rig and purchase a PS4 in the fall. somebody wake me when there are at least a half dozen games that will render by rig inoperable.

Yea, I was going to upgrade my GTX680, but decided not to and bought my Oculus Rift. I'll probably pick up a PS4 if they ever get the Dev kit's ready for PM VR headset or a Consumer model. I heard they are planing to do the same approach as OR by selling dev kits, but who knows with Sony?... I heard the PS4 Dev kit was $2500...

 

[15th Warlock]

Yea man, I can wait to play it and SC, but SC still has a good way to go before they even start optimizing it's graphics. They are to busy adding content, but even so the graphics still look great.



Yea, I was going to upgrade my GTX680, but decided not to and bought my Oculus Rift. I'll probably pick up a PS4 if they ever get the Dev kit's ready for PM VR headset or a Consumer model. I heard they are planing to do the same approach as OR by selling dev kits, but who knows with Sony?... I heard the PS4 Dev kit was $2500...

Any games in particular you enjoy playing on your OR?

 

[Bo$$]

it will be a mid range..... by the time the game comes out

And i JUST bought one yesterday! £400 can't be midrange hahah

 

[brandonwh64]

The only thing you have that is a buzz kill is the Q6600. That thing is probably showing its age just like phenom II denab chips are.

 

[Mindweaver]

Any games in particular you enjoy playing on your OR?

Right now there is not a lot of finished games. The best game right now to me is Half-life 2. It's amazing walking around in the city and buildings. I also enjoy Quake 2 on it. Check out the Virtual Reality Club house I created.

 

[Durvelle27]

An FX owner here, have no reason to upgrade either, plus mantle support is gonna bring some substantial improvements to those games that support it, so thats a win-win for me

i7 And FX owner here. I see no upgrades in my future

 

[Fizban]

The New Batman is very unlikely to push any modern-ish hardware to its limit, I am quite sure the laptop I purchased last year will run the game just fine when it comes out, and if a laptop can run it with ease than any modern gaming rig will laugh at it.

EDIT: Just realized Rhino's rig isn't exactly modern, it's probably in the same league as my laptop gaming-wise actually. Think my 4700MQ would put the Q6600 to shame, but I don't think my 770M can quite compete with his GTX 570 (770M is better than a 560 TI though so might not be too far south of a 570 in performance).

 

[erocker]

Watch Dogs might... We'll have to see next month.

 

[Fizban]

Watch Dogs might... We'll have to see next month.

Listed requirements aren't always real reliable, but it only lists a 460 as required, 560 TI as recommended.

 

[xenocide]

An FX owner here, have no reason to upgrade either

I disagree. Upgrading to a Haswell i7 would be quite a noticeable improvement for any games you play.

plus mantle support is gonna bring some substantial improvements to those games that support it, so thats a win-win for me

Assuming it gains any traction which is looking unlikely at this point. BF4 only saw slight improvements on the high end with Mantle, and Thief was the only other game using it and as far as I know that was delayed and yielded only slight improvements. Mantle is also only helpful (from what tests show) for people with low end CPU's like APU's and Pentium's/i3's.

As for the OP, if you're using a Q6600 still you're bottlenecked to high hell. Haswell would yield massive gains over that. Hell, even Sandy Bridge for me was a huge performance jump in CPU-bound games.