Does future proofing actually exist?

[royfrosty]

27inch 1080p is good for distance viewing. Like siting further away to view movies etc.

 

[enenyi]

IMO, 27inch at 1080p is a mismatch.

Depends on how far u sit and wad u view.

Owned a Philips 27 inch 1080p monitor previously.

 

[mosmos]

27inch 1080p is good for distance viewing. Like siting further away to view movies etc.

why not just get a 32" led tv to watch movies?

 

[evq]

My practice is upgrade gpu yearly. Of cos unless the games I play does not require me to upgrade my gpu.

As for others, I usually keep for 5yr then upgrade.

 

[kandinsky]

Depends on how far u sit and wad u view.

Owned a Philips 27 inch 1080p monitor previously.

Yeah, it really depends. To say it's a mismatch outright is a blanket statement. May be a mismatch if you sit damn near on a very shallow desk, lol. I'm using one daily, quite happy with it.

 

[royfrosty]

why not just get a 32" led tv to watch movies?

Cause some people will game with it. And to game on a tv screen is gonna be bad in input lag.

And to game on 32inch 720p or 1080p is very bad pixel stretch lol.

 

[mosmos]

Cause some people will game with it. And to game on a tv screen is gonna be bad in input lag.

And to game on 32inch 720p or 1080p is very bad pixel stretch lol.

maybe can just get a 4K 32" TV. I thought can adjust the TV resolution in the settings?

 

[ongrasp]

My practice is upgrade gpu yearly. Of cos unless the games I play does not require me to upgrade my gpu.

As for others, I usually keep for 5yr then upgrade.

Wah... Expensive leh

 

[pwongkk]

Future proof is not about saving money. If u want to save $$ then dun buy anything at all. Future proof is about saving lesser headache in the future when u want to upgrade.

E.g. For home, u purposely get electrician to pull multiple CAT6 to different rooms, and deploy blank pipes with drawstring (in case in the future need to deploy fibre) etc.

or buy a casing large enough if u anticipate u will need to put more HDD, or buy a NAS with enough bays etc

Agree with your point. Hardware not really possible to future proof as new technologies and features can appear within next 3 years.

When I wired up my home 8 years ago with 4 data points per room, people ask why am I bringing an office environment home. Fast forward to today, my 4 points are mostly utilised for pc/laptop, voip phone, ip cam, gaming console and android TV box. Those who failed to see this then now have to retort to converting their telephone lines.

Future proofing infrastructure is a better option compared to pc hardware.

 

[pwongkk]

Same here. And finding a replacement for these are not so easy when Intel changes their socket very so often... (Or at least more often than the future-proofing period of 3-5 years we are talking about here)

Now Windows is going to lock the os to processor generation. That means you can't really future proof your setup.

 

[wadsad]

i think end up waste more money. technology advances too fast.

 

[nexusRAGER]

Impossible to future proof de.. unless you sibei rich lor

 

[Mockingjay]

OP wack liao ma?

 

[orbvius]

Alot of us try to get top end components so that in the near future, only need to change the gpu etc.

but how many of you really did that and save money in the process?

i for one end up just changing the whole rig cause psu might be dying, new tech in future like ddr5, sata 4 or some super speed header will take over and make the existing rig look pathetic overall.

its a general term. Don't look to much into the term "future proofing".
If anything else matter, consult your CFO.

 

[t258jgn]

"future proofing" = change whole rig every 12 months

 

[Nakedtoes]

sadly, mobo is the weak link now. My z77 mobo bsods every two weeks and I need to remount my RAM in a certain manner or else my PC will not boot up

time to change ram... i got this problem with my asrock few months back.. change another set of ram problem all solve...

 

[Gaiason]

time to change ram... i got this problem with my asrock few months back.. change another set of ram problem all solve...

yea, most likely ram, can try to capture the error msg for the blue screen...

 

[bunnypangsai]

yea, most likely ram, can try to capture the error msg for the blue screen...

check one by one. If spoil can head down to RMA. Rams are usually life time warranty

 

[NobunagaOda]

My practice is upgrade gpu yearly. Of cos unless the games I play does not require me to upgrade my gpu.

As for others, I usually keep for 5yr then upgrade.

Most would upgrade after 3 years.

 

[Ohayo!]

IMO, 27inch at 1080p is a mismatch.

23 inch i already need some time to get used to