by Enjay » Fri May 21, 2021 22:35
I upgraded my own machine about three months back (or thereabouts) to add more memory and to put in a better graphics card. I went from 16 to 32GB of RAM and from a GTX1080 to an RTX2060.
For a lot of the stuff that I was doing, my machine was already a bit over spec (as I said) so it didn't make too much difference there, but for programs and uses that my computer found quite demanding, and for games that could make use of the features of the new graphics card there was a noticeable improvement. Cyberpunk2077, for example, runs much better and the graphics card runs much cooler than with the older bits in place.
The machine was a comparatively high spec when I first got it but, as time has moved on, it has slipped to, I guess, a mid-range kind of performance/spec. The upgrades just help breathe a bit more life into it but there was no point in going over the top with upgrades for a machine that, at its heart, is quite a few years old now.
I upgraded my own machine about three months back (or thereabouts) to add more memory and to put in a better graphics card. I went from 16 to 32GB of RAM and from a GTX1080 to an RTX2060.
For a lot of the stuff that I was doing, my machine was already a bit over spec (as I said) so it didn't make too much difference there, but for programs and uses that my computer found quite demanding, and for games that could make use of the features of the new graphics card there was a noticeable improvement. Cyberpunk2077, for example, runs much better and the graphics card runs much cooler than with the older bits in place.
The machine was a comparatively high spec when I first got it but, as time has moved on, it has slipped to, I guess, a mid-range kind of performance/spec. The upgrades just help breathe a bit more life into it but there was no point in going over the top with upgrades for a machine that, at its heart, is quite a few years old now.