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64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 59 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Me to my 10 year old gaming pc: "I guess it'll be another couple of years, buddy."

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    They aren't really making a ton of games that justify a costly upgrade anyways.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Honestly, my PC at this point plays FFXIV and that's basically it. And I'm OK with that.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Can't wait for yhem to push forced end of life on all computers

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Microsoft tried that with TPM. Which you can bypass for the most part with Rufus and a clean install. Still some kernel anticheat games you can't do so so easily.

    I've already switched over to Linux, just got one more system to migrate. So far 100% worth it to not deal with Microslop.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I agree. I recently swapped out my aging 2600x6core for a 5950x32core processor and upgraded from an 3070ti to a 5070 (well actually more of a sidegrade - my vram was simply too small). before this, my system had already a few years where there wasn't much difference regarding gaming - In the current configuration and the glacial speed gaming developed i'd say i have a decade before upgrades are really needed.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Right? My APU can run almost all games up to 2020 in 3k. Not high-fps but i'm not sensible to that.

    Except a few, like Valheim and Empyrion, which have 1 fps on the menu.
    Do they require some special instruction sets or something, that a APU can't handle?

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