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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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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I think it's always been like that, unless you upgrade a CPU for a 10% improvement.

I tended to do GPU as one upgrade, then the rest a few years later, treating the RAM, CPU and mobo as one unit.

But since prices of everything have been out of whack for ages now, I'm sticking with this 1060/i5-8400 box until something gives. If I want the latest whizzo graphics, I'll play my PS5.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    There used to be a sweet spot of early adopter where you could resell early enough and still make back 75% or more of the price. It's just so prohibitive and unnecessary now to upgrade like that

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