 When I buy my personal rig, gusto ko top of the line siya tapos di ko na siya babaguhin for the next 4 or 5 years. So malaka yung upfront cost, pero wala ka ng babaguhin, wala ka ng gagastosin after that. My current PC is almost 6 years old. i5-4 690K, nabalik ko June 2015, tasa actually yung processor na yun, lumobas siya 2014. Yung graphics cards ko, RX 470s na nakakacross fire, second hand pa sila, and my motherboard only supports DDR3 RAM na mga 2133MHz ng ata yung speed. Di na monster yung rig ko, medyo mabagal na siya, medyo matanda na siya. But, you know, I like playing games and I want to see them in all their high-risk graphics glory. So na isip ko, can I make my rig a monster again kong palitan ko lang yung isang part? And we're gonna find out after an annoying ad from us. Ang video na to ay handognicdcoffers.com. Marami kang mahanap na ibat-ibang uri ng software dito. May games, apps, activation codes, or Windows 10. 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Will changing one part let you play AAA games in all of their high-risk graphic gory glory? Just an explanation on why I want to do this experiment. Usually, after your PC is around 4-5 years old, yung yung yung yung yung magsisiks na yung sa akin, inisip mo na ang hirap na mag-upgrade kasi andami na nagbago, andami na mga bagong hardware na mas mabilis. Hindi lang naman RGB habul ko kung bibili ako ng bagong PC, but it's impossible for me to get the latest and the greatest kasi, like say, yung Samobo, yung socket, iba na siya. And probably, I would want to go Ryzen if I were to get a new CPU. So a new CPU, kailangan ng bagong motherboard, kailangan mo ng bagong RAM. Siguro, you can save the storage and you can reuse the power supply, but I would need a new case kasi sira-sira na rin kisko. And that's the point. After 4 or 5 years, you're faced with this choice na kung mag-upgrade ako, kailangan ko nang kasi palitan lahat ng mga important parts, yung mga mahal na parts. Kaya naisip ko tong experiment na to na palitan lang natin yung graphics card. Total yung GPU naman yung pinakamahalaga na part for gaming. Okay, panaman ako sa ibang performance niya sa web surfing, downloading, kahit yung streaming, sobrang okay pa siya, renderings for video editing, okay pa siya. It's just in gaming na medyo nakulangan ako. So can I get away with replacing it with the TUF 3080 OC, which is one of the top-of-the-line cards now? And definitely, there are cons to this approach. Number one, and ito talaga, I'm sure napakamot na yung ibang PC guys watching this, is siyempre yung bottlenecks, but mga gawin yung sa 3080. Yung TUF 3080 OC, sobrang belis na graphics card, pero hindi siya makatakbo at its full speed. Kasi hiniintayin niya yung instructions galing sa CPU, na medyo mabagal na, kasi tanders na si CPU. And ito yung tinatawag na bottleneck. You don't enjoy the full performance of your graphics card because it's stuck waiting for instructions from the CPU. And no doubt magbab bottleneck talaga to. And please don't blame me in the comments. I know magbab bottleneck siya. Pero gusto ko lang makita na kahit may bottleneck, sapat na ba yung performance para makainjoy ako nung high-res gaming, nung AAA games? Number two, since I'm only changing the GPU, andamit pang mga improvements sa PC na hindi related sa graphics card. And hindi ko ma-enjoy yun kasi hindi na compatible yung hardware ko. For example, DDR5, RAM, NVMe SSD. Lahat yun hindi ko ma-bilay, hindi ko ma-upgrade kasi hindi sila compatible sa motherboard ko. PCIe4 is another new improvement na nabibilis yung transfer rates between your different devices like the GPU and the CPU and the SSDs. And that's another thing I can't enjoy because my motherboard doesn't support that. So you're missing out on a lot of the new hardware out there kung yung GPU lang palitan mo. And that's true, that's a downside to this approach. But there are also positives or may pros naman sa approach na to kung palitan mo lang yung graphics card. Number one is, pinapalitan mo lang yung graphics card. So mahal nga yung 3080 OC. I mean, mahal siya compared to the other cards out there pero kyun nga kasi top of the line siya. Tapos yung gastos mo lang is to replace the card. You don't need budget to replace your CPU, your MOBO, your RAM. You're only spending for the graphics card. And so you can actually spend more money imbis na 3070, 3060 Ti lang gilin mo since may extra budget ka na you saved because you didn't need to buy a new CPU, new MOBO, et cetera. You can get a nicer card such as the tough 3080 OC. Number two pro is that sobrang dalilang palitan yung GPU. It's one of those items na tagalin mo yung Lumamon drivers, pasok mo yung bagong GPU, pasok mo yung bagong drivers. Everything will still be okay. Hindi siya kasing messy na palitan mo yung CPU, palitan mo yung CPU cooler mo. If you're buying a modern CPU, you might be tempted to go AIO. So that's another expense. And if you change your motherboard, malamang magre-eclamo si Windows, akala niya na bagong rig talaga siya. So it will ask for a new activation key. Most likely actually if you're buying a new rig, you might as well just get a new version of Windows. So maglilipat ka pa nung mga files mo galing sa Lumamon Windows 10 to the new Windows 10. There are a lot of hassles, complications, headaches involved in buying a completely new rig. Yung kagandahan kung palitan mo lang yung GPU, sobrang simple lang nun. Tagalin mo si Lumamon, pasok mo yung bagong game. And the number three pro is that andami ko na mention ng mga bagong stuff. Pero actually, hindi lahat yun nakakatulong sa gaming performance. For example, yung PCIe4, which is supposed to have faster transfer rates. And automatically you think mas maganda siguro si PCIe4 kasi siya yung pinakalatest, si PCIe3 yung previous generation mas nabilis naman yung transfer rates on paper. Pero actually, may nagtest na nung mga PCIe4 and this was actually last year. You can check it out on Gamers Nexus or you know, those hardcore benchmarking sites like that. Sobrang konti lang nung performance increase ni PCIe4. Yes, sometimes there is a performance increase but in the real world, will you notice that extra one or two frames per second? Syempre, yung mga manufacturers gusto nung gusto nila yan. PCIe4, bago na yan, luma na sa PCIe3. DDR5, bago na yan, luma na si DDR4. And yet, for a lot of these improvements, you don't really feel the speed. On paper, yes, mas mabilis nga sila pero in actual real world conditions, konti lang yung performance increase and it's imperceptible to the user. So you're actually saving your money by resisting the hype and not upgrading to, yes, baka nga mas mabilis siya two frames per second faster but you really need an entirely new computer para lang makainjoy ka nung an additional two frames per second. So there are some pros to considering this approach na lumang PC, palitan lang natin yung graphics card. So tama na Daldal, how did it do? For primary testing, we chose Cyberpunk 2077 because it's supposed to be a AAA game and a lot of people have complained na nababagalan sila sa rig nila when they play Cyberpunk. So this is a perfect test game for us kasi bagong labas, luma na PC ko, definitely kung gamit ko pa rin yung luma kung graphics cards, may hihirapan rin ako sa kanya and I wouldn't be able to play it at max settings. But with the TUF 3080 OC, I was able to play it on full everything, full 2K resolution yung pinakamaksimong nung in-game native resolution niya, ultra graphic settings everything. All of the graphic settings, sinubukan ko na ipasok sa pinaka ultra high performance nila and the game is very playable even though I am using an i5 for 690K. Tutong nga naman kita sa benchmarks na sobrang bottleneck talaga siya. Usually 100% load talaga yung CPU ko, yung GPU ko, hindi 100% nagingintay nung instructions from the GPU. But from a gameplay perspective, I saw the best that the game engine could render. Ultra high settings, 2K, the maximum and it was very playable. On the average, what I could see from within the city with a very crowded scenery, I would be getting around 35-45 FPS. Indorse in an action setting, so indoors, isolated, contained environments but with a lot of enemies, so still a lot of moving characters. I would see around frames of 55-60 FPS which makes sense because the engine has less things to worry about when you're indoors, it's isolated, it doesn't need to render a lot of things compared to outdoor settings where it has to draw the entire city especially when the character looks out onto the horizon. So definitely if you had a much nicer system you can get much higher frame rates. But 40-45 FPS outdoors, 55 FPS indoors is still very playable considering that the graphics were on ultra everything. The game did stutter, noticeably when you scoop in on a site or you zoom in on the gun barrel when you're in a crowded situation. Noticeable stutter there. Noticeable stutter also when you hop on a vehicle and then you have it on third-party perspective. So you're seeing more of the scenery in third-party. Noticeable stutter when you hop on the vehicle. Noticeable stutter also while driving. Again because the game engine is struggling to render everything rather your system and my poor six-year-old CPU is struggling to instruct the GPU on what to render in such a crowded setting especially when you're driving. So definitely there were moments that were very reproducible na hindi talaga na kaya na nulumang system ko and nags-stutter siya. But action sequences were very fluid. When I died, it was my fault and not because I couldn't maneuver in time kasi nags-stutter yung game. And just from a quality perspective, I was able to enjoy cyberpunk. Di ko na isip na di ko ma-appreciate tong game na to, yung kwento na to because ang bagal nung PC ko. At the end of the day, I played it for more than 40 hours and hindi siya sa Krippysho. I mean hindi siya yung parang grave, I want to see how this game goes so I'm gonna play it even though sobrang bagal, even though sobrang jittery. And yung yung I've been able to play it on ultra settings and with very decent frame rates. If the 3080 OC can power my old ass rig to ultra settings at decent frames in cyberpunk 2077, then it's no surprise it can easily do over 144 Hz in less demanding games like Valorant. This is actually my first time playing Valorant and the silky smooth frame rate certainly helped my rusty reflexes pick up a killer too. So at the end of the day, would I recommend this upgrade approach? Yes, but not to everyone. Yung mga purists, yung mga gusto talaga yung pinakamabilis at yung talagang pinipigan nila lahat nung frames per second, nung performance, nung anong kaya nung computer nila, this approach should not be good for them. If you want to get the most performance out of your parts, then definitely naka handicap or naka bottleneck yung GPU if you put it in a very old system. And there are some people and legit concern naman to na na hiyinayang sila. It's like bumili ka nung mabilis na coche pero yung takbomulang 30, 40 kilometers per hour. Eh, bumili ka nung Porsche, bumili ka nung BM, kaya yung 150, 200. It's like you bought a nice sports car pero iniikot mo lang sa EDSA imbis na dapat pinapatakbong nga yung sa Autobahn. And that is a legitimate criticism of this approach. If bottlenecking bothers you, if you're the type na sobrang optimized ng system, then definitely this approach is not for you. If you have an old system that you're still happy with, like myself, but at the same time, you just need to play the occasional triple A game. Kasi aaminin ko sayo, hindi naman ako ganun na super gamer. I mean I'd love to be but there are so many games I'd love to play but not all of them are triple A. Actually, a lot of them are indie games na di naman kailangan na sobrang bilis na computer. And even if I wanted to play all of the triple A games, andaming adulting na kailangan gawin, kailangan patakbo si Hardware Sugar, kailangan kong mga nung videos for YouTube and there's so many other things personal and professional that I need to do that cut into my triple A game playing time. So na hinayang ako bumili nung bagong computer kasi iniisip ko, di ko rin naman siya may enjoy fully. Right now, I'm happy with my setup. It does what I needed to do and if I want to play triple A games, then changing the graphics card does that for me. Tapos yung mga dapa dito, since top of the line naman yung graphics card, I can use this as an extender. Bilin ko to, I'm happy with it for the next one year. Next year, baka bumili na ako ng bagong system, sobrang okay pa rin yung top 3080 OC or any of the higher and graphics cards nowadays. They will still be very good one year from now. So kong baga, na enjoy mo na yung graphics card ngayon, you're able to play triple A games at ultra high rest. You didn't need to spend to buy a whole new computer. Tapos next year, pag comfortable ka na, pag ready ka na bumili na bagong computer, pwede mo pa naman gamitin itong top of the line GPU. So I can see some people such as myself na bibilin ng top of the line graphics card, pasok natin sa lumang war machine natin and let's see the old girl ride again. Thanks for watching. And thank you to our top fans, Ashur Gabe, Anima Mundi, Mark Anthony Palanya, Christian Espinoza, John Ruben Otsha, P-Priation, ITX Addict. Your support literally makes the channel possible and for everyone else, please keep watching those ads. Thanks and stay safe.