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60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In the other 40% there's the people that, like me, built a good future proof pc several years ago (mine is 10 years old) and it still plays what I like but it's showing signs of aging. One day, it will stop working.

I'm just praying it holds up for a couple more years because otherwise I'm screwed.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I'm at 14 years, with one gpu upgrade to a 970, and I'm just here sacrificing to any god out there at this point. I've become pretty comfortable with indie games, and even a few well optimized games (elden ring, for example, runs pretty well), but when my friends just jumped into subnautica 2, that was a big :(

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I try to make it a habit to build a whole new machine when a new AMD socket to accommodate a major memory standard comes out. Way I figure, many people will dump their older hardware, so I can get a bargain on top-shelf stuff of the older standard. So when DDR6 is out, I pick up a 1024gb of DDR5 and a Threadripper of the generation.

    While I don't like the FOMO from not adopting the latest platform, my wallet much appreciates the mercy.

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