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Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years?

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2014/09/23 03:38:08 (permalink)
Hey guys. I'm always comparing hardware with gaming consoles. And since the Xbox one and PS4 are here not so long ago,
do you guys think that owning a GTX Titan (the first edition) can life the live of an Console generation? I'm assuming  that the current consoles will last for about 10 years.
We all know that a single titan is outperforming the Xbox One and PS4. So knowing that it better,  would it be wrong for me think this way?
 
I know that PC games grow faster everyday, and that i might get in trouble running games at max settings 3-5 years from now. But by tweaking the setting, it should still look better than the consoles right?
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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/23 04:57:13 (permalink)
    That's an interesting question. But I think there is no absolute answer, you will just be surrounded by opinions and expectations tell 2024 comes  .
    But I think the Titan will be obsolete by 2024, as 4K will probably be the standard mid-range for PC gaming, and a Titan is not even enough to play the latest AAA games today at 4K with maxed out details. For 1080p monitor ? The Titan will probably be still a good GPU 10 years from now, but 1920x1080 tomorrow will be like 1024x768 today. Anyway the card will have many mid-range or low-end alternatives that will perform identical or easily out-perform it with probably tenth the power draw and 1/4 the price. Titan stance will be like just GTX 480 stance today. A good card but not very power efficient with many other better alternatives in the market. 
     
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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/23 07:01:21 (permalink)
    Your gaming setup on PC, among most others gaming setups for pc, already look better than any console could ever hope for and that will not change. The ps4 and xbone will never look any better than they do now. Even if another set of console boxes come out early, they too, will be obsolete as soon as they hit the street and lucky if there as powerful as your rig now. With 6gb of vram and being double precision compute capable the titan cards wont be going anywhere soon. Titan z is another story though. :) As far a consoles go your pc will always look better, perform better and just plain be better when running with comparable game settings.

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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/23 07:14:22 (permalink)
    I have 3 Titans and plan to use them for 10+ years if not more or until I cannot use a computer at least for Gaming @ 1920x1200.
    But tomorrow what we buy today is already outdated when it come to New Technologies in the Computer World.
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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/23 07:54:28 (permalink)
    Yes i'm talking about gaming at 1080p nothing crazy. I think i will try and keep my PC as is, for another 10 years.
    I've spend over $2500 on this system. Unless i get a good job with decent money, i might upgrade faster.
    I'm looking for ways to keep my money instead of investing it in something you don't really need yet.
     
    What i was wondering the most though is, would you keep your system around for as long as possible unless you really can't play the newest game anymore?
    Also, i dont think everyone would be ready for 4K gaming. a 4K screen at 42" will cost you over $2300... Heck, i have seen screens that will cost you more than $4000... Not sure how long this price will stay, but after 3 or 5 years, and the prices are still the same, i will stick to 1080p for a while.
    post edited by dapgicc - 2014/09/23 07:57:43
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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/23 09:12:53 (permalink)
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    Yes i'm talking about gaming at 1080p nothing crazy. I think i will try and keep my PC as is, for another 10 years.
    I've spend over $2500 on this system. Unless i get a good job with decent money, i might upgrade faster.
    I'm looking for ways to keep my money instead of investing it in something you don't really need yet.
     
    What i was wondering the most though is, would you keep your system around for as long as possible unless you really can't play the newest game anymore?
    Also, i dont think everyone would be ready for 4K gaming. a 4K screen at 42" will cost you over $2300... Heck, i have seen screens that will cost you more than $4000... Not sure how long this price will stay, but after 3 or 5 years, and the prices are still the same, i will stick to 1080p for a while.




    In 2006, 1080p monitors were too pricey, now they became the norm for TVs and PC Monitors, 4K prices won't remain high for long.  Actually there are some really affordable 4K monitors nowadays if you go browse amazon. I've seen prices as low as $470 (not exactly cheap but still). That's what happens when technology is still new and cutting-edge it is always going to be pricey, after sometime its price will adjust more to the mainstream market. 10 years ago GeForce 6800 Ultra was the fastest GPU and 1024x768 was the mainstream resolution, now these things are obsolete by today standards but these released at the golden age of PC gaming, where developers used to put decent budgets on PC games to take advantage of PC graphics capabilities, not like today's lazy console ports. Titan is also expected to have higher longevity since the technology doesn't move as fast as it was 10 years ago.  
    I don't upgrade my system very frequently too. I keep most of my components other than the GPUs, around 3-6 years. But after 10 years there will be just many better cheap alternatives that are more power efficient and faster. 
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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/23 10:16:14 (permalink)
    You mean physically be able to run, or worth anything in terms of being able to run the then-current games?
     
    The former, doubtful. The latter, forget about it. :D
     
    If you want the best of the best now, buy it and be ready for drastic depreciation in the next few years to come. If you want value-conscious approach, buy products you can afford to upgrade every 1.5-2 years.
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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/23 12:21:47 (permalink)
    I like this kind of speculation, but a lot can change in 10 years! However it seems graphically, games have not evolved much in the last 5-7 years. Technology is only as good as the games that actually take advantage of it. I've always, purchased a new GPU every other generation, and since owning 2x 7800 GTX's, I’ve always been running an SLi setup. Well that brings me to my point, I have been running 2x 670's in SLi since release, and for gaming at 1920x1080, there isn't a game that really brings these cards to their limits. Looking back to the Release of Crysis I was running 2x 8800 GTS(320mb) cards, and running it on the highest settings would really bring the cards to their limits at times. Even later running with 2x GTX 260's could take its toll! I really feel like Nvidia & AMD/ATi are pushing forward with technology & discovering new boundaries, but game developers are not taking advantage! yes 2x 9** series cards would annihilate my 670's in terms of performance, however why should I spend another grand on technology when it's not necessary to reach desired performance levels? For much of this issue, I blame consoles & Pirates (pirates, for pushing companies away from the pc market). All the revenue is there for consoles, why would gave developers go out of there way taking all this new technology in, when it really only benefits us minority PC gamers. Anyone remember trying to play Oblivion with a 6800 series card or Radeon X800 series (was the better option) at a measly 1280x-1024 or if you were lucky 1600x1200? Yeah I miss the days where when I upgraded I could actually feel and tell the difference.
    Sure there is super high resolutions & multi-monitor set-ups that can tax new hardware, but for many years to come 1080* will be a standard that most users will be gaming on.
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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/23 22:25:14 (permalink)
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    I know that PC games grow faster everyday, and that i might get in trouble running games at max settings 3-5 years from now. But by tweaking the setting, it should still look better than the consoles right?

    I just fired up my time machine and paid a visit to the year 2019. There were no humans left alive on the planet after an apparent asteroid strike. Dark clouds filled the skies. The cities were in ruins. So, yeah - your current GTX TITAN setup should be good to go.

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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/24 00:50:11 (permalink)
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    I know that PC games grow faster everyday, and that i might get in trouble running games at max settings 3-5 years from now. But by tweaking the setting, it should still look better than the consoles right?

    I just fired up my time machine and paid a visit to the year 2019. There were no humans left alive on the planet after an apparent asteroid strike. Dark clouds filled the skies. The cities were in ruins. So, yeah - your current GTX TITAN setup should be good to go.




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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/24 02:13:34 (permalink)
    If you mean how long can work, I think card will work and 10 years, from other side GTX580 is launched 2011, now is 2014, after 3 year most of game you need to drop details lot to play games. And situation was same even before almost 10-12 months.
    Difference between GTX780 and GTX580 when I update was HUGE! GTX780 didn't warm over 60C in games where I got max 50fps with GTX580. 

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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/27 09:00:45 (permalink)
    given how much technology moves, it'll be obsolete by then, otherwise lifewise is a lottery.

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    Re: Can a GTX Titan life for another 10 years? 2014/09/27 11:15:24 (permalink)
    For gaming it may not last that long, but it contains one of the most advanced GPGPUs ever made. Remember that this was not made for gaming, but for graphics and other processing, as it just happens to be applicable. The TITAN Z is the same, hence the much higher price for these cards over the normal under $900 premium gaming card. The premium charged is not for the gaming capability, although it is very good for that, but for the processing power. The people who buy this are willing to pay more for it, as time is money and a reduction of a few seconds can allow them to make much more money. There can be many different mentalities here, but some think paying this high of a premium is not worth since it will become obsolete just as quickly as a card priced 25% to 50% less. My opinion is that it may not make it ten years, as five is most-likely the max. If even a 10% change year over year would mean that in five years a card that costs half of it will out perform it by a very wide margin. Future proofing is a fools game, but some chase it and try to stay so far ahead they think they cannot be caught for a while, but then again, who really knows.



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