Building a new PC

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Originally Posted by Fish

It's not either or. RTX has gotten this stigma that it's some unnecessary cosmetic toy that does nothing but impede performance. But that's just sour grapes from people with low end systems. Ray tracing, soon to be replaced with path tracing, is the clear future of gaming. It's the most immersive experience you can get. Anyone with a system capable of actually running it, isn't turning it off for performance reasons. It looks too good, and with a decent system it doesn't impede performance. It's like watching a movie in 4K vs. 720p format. Sure, you don't need 4K format to experience a movie, but once you see how much better it is, standard format feels really lacking.

Kids running cheap systems with settings at minimum aren't beating other gamers because of RTX performance.

Didn't mean to imply that it's not interesting technology or not necessary for some people; it's in the primitive stages of development and requires a high end system to take advantage of it. Like a lot (most) hardware developments, the software is always lagging behind.

Perhaps because I'm an old guy, I appreciate the content of the movie over the fancy CGI. There's a lot of movies today that are what I would call beautiful garbage. I'm sure Dr. Strange 2 looks great in 4k; that doesn't change the fact that it was total garbage. Maybe Wanda looks better in 4k...

What exactly is a cheap system? it's possible to build a pretty strong gaming system for 1.5k or less.