To be honest, I don’t play a ton of top end AAA on my PC. But I’m still rocking a neanderthal standard HD and 8 GB of RAM so I’ve decided to snag a new SSD and upgrade my RAM to 16 GB for now. Feel like that will give me the biggest bang for my buck right now for what I do (multi tasking, some Python and data stuff for school, and some older games like Diablo 3, wh2, divinity os2, etc)
My logic is ... When some CPU and GPU stock renews maybe I’ll look around for those and do a full build, upon which I can just move the SSD and RAM over to the new rig. Got an i5 7600K which is still okay for time being, though my gpu is getting up there (1060 gtx).
I'm pretty sure the 7600K can run anything.
The 1060 is going to be your bottleneck. Upgrade that to a 1080ti and you can run everything out there as long as you don't care about ray-tracing.
The jump from spinning disks to solid state is enormous.
8GB doesn't cut it anymore. I also went to 16 a couple years back.
My original rig was the i7-2600K, Asus P8-z68-v Pro mobo, 8GB RAM, an Intel SSD that died, and a Radeon HD 6950 that I flashed up to a 6970. Lasted me something stupid, like 7 years until I upgraded the RAM and the GPU. If it weren't for some applications I want to use needing the FMA instruction set to run properly, I'd probably be riding out the 2600K for another year or so when either stock comes back, a new CPU generation is about to drop, or hopefully both.
I really can't complain--over the past 18 years, I've only had 3 rigs. My first was a shitty little thing I built on no budget when I was 15. A 2.4GHz Celeron, Intel D865PERL motherboard, cheap DDR RAM, cheap WD HDD (Think it was a 640GB Blue maybe?), I got a case and PSU combo for 15 bucks that somehow didn't blow up on me, and an ATI 9600SE GPU.
My second was the first good rig I had Q6600, Abit IP35 Pro mobo, some G.Skill DDR2 RAM, think I had a 1TB WD Black as a primary drive, NVidia 8800GT... man I miss Abit. They made nice motherboards.
3 rigs over 18 years is pretty damn impressive for a PC gamer. I'm excited for my fourth so I can retire this one to the basement as an emulator-only box