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Anon's PC works (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 54 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

I use a gaming laptop from 2018. Rog Zephyrus.

fan started making grating noise even after thorough cleaning, found a replacement on Ebay and boom back in business playing Hitman and Stardew.

Will I get 120 fps or dominate multiplayer? nah. But yeah works fine. Might even be a hand me down later on.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Absolutely it totally depends on what you got originally. If you only got an okay ish PC in 2018 then it definitely still won't be fit for purpose in 2025, but if you got a good gaming PC in 2018 it probably will still work in another 5 years, although at that point you'll probably be on minimum settings for most new releases.

    I would say 5 to 10 years is probably the lifespan of a gaming PC without an upgrade.

    However my crappy work laptop needs replacing after just 3 years because it was rubbish to start with.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    We replaced my mom's warcraft machine 3 years ago. It replaced an athlonII from 2k7 at 14 years old. Your tank may be a 74yo grandmother so be nice.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I want to talk about writing 2k7 instead of 2007. It does save a character, but I also had to read it 3 times to understand lol but that might be a me problem

    Also: do you only do that for 2000-2009, or do you write 2k25?

    Also, Also: hope this doesn't come across as rude. Ive never seen it written that way & find it interesting and a little funny.

    Also, also, also: I think it's sweet you helped your mom upgrade her computer so she could play WoW more effectively.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    High end gaming laptops are about a 5 year cycle, presuming you want everything ultra or high settings.

    If you don't care, my old laptop with a 7700k and a 1070 still runs almost anything, just not as well as brand new top end.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I built an overkill PC in February 2016, it was rocking a GTX 980ti a little before the 1080 came out, and it was probably the best GPU out there, factory overclocked and water cooled by EVGA. My CPU was an i5-4690k, which was solidly mid range then, but I overclocked it myself from 3.5GHz to 5.3Ghz with no issue, and only stopped there because I was so suspicious of how well it was handling that massive increase. I had 2TB of SSD spaceand like 8TB of regular hard drives and 16GB of ram.

    Because I have never needed to think about space, and so many of my parts were really overpowered for their generation, I have always been hesitant to upgrade. I don't play the newest games either, I still get max settings on Doom Eternal and Read Dead 2 which I forget are half a decade old. The only game where it's struggled in low settings is Baldurs Gate 3 unfortunately, which is made me realise it's ready to upgrade.

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