So then let's go back to the original statement I had a problem with:
"Have a computer with 750ti + i7 2600 (1.7 tflops), it still plays most games just fine."
Either this statement is meaningless because it uses a definition of "plays most games just fine" that is not relevant to people affected by GPU sag, or it is demonstrably false because such a computer will be unable to play a great many popular titles from the past 5 years, even with very limited settings.
So I'm really not clear on why so many people seem to keen disagree with my fairly obvious thesis "you need a computer that isn't obsolete if you want to be able to pchoose what new (or actually pretty old now) releases you want to play".
I've had a remarkable number of conversations with people who seem to believe the computer they bought 10-15 years ago somehow still owes them something. If you only want to play AoE, then great carry on doing that. No problem, I can absolutely respect that. I like keeping old computers in service; my file server is still a bloody Lynnfield!
But what I often see from people doing this is twofold:
1. Moral superiority, as in this case, implying that everybody else is a fool for wanting to...you know...play modern games and/or with reasonable graphics settings.
2. Actually complaining that modern game developers don't support your toaster. I've encountered a remarkable amount of this, and it's very irritating when somebody comes in and says "o y gaem no wurk!?" and then get angry with the response "because your computer is so old that I regularly pass up similar machines at thrift stores".
And hence, having experienced this same conversation many many times over the past decade (often from people asking for my help), I cease to have any tolerance for it. If somebody wants to play old or very lightweight games on an old computer, that's awesome, I think it's great that they can do that. However, if you want to participate in public conversation about gaming computers, their habits do not excuse them from having perspective about how their use-case compares to the way the market moves in general.
/rant