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Maybe it is like drug addicts or drunks who, even though they know it is not the healthiest vice, they try to get everyone else to do it too?

Upgrading my ryzen 7 1700 and GTX 1080 for a 5800X3D and RX 7900 XT this weekend. Waiting for the CPU but it's cool to be able to go from first to last Gen that this motherboard can support

Whether you upgrade it or not, it's always a safe bet to clean your pc from dust once a year; and change thermal paste like 2-3 years.

Still rocking two GTX660s in SLI, they run solitaire and lemmy alright. Even upgraded the thing to Win11 against its wishes

My 1080Ti finally died this year (started overheating). I've kept it though, in the hope I can fix it one day...

Every other part is just cobbled together from older rigs or sporadic upgrade pushes when a sale looks good.

I tend to flip my RAM out every 3-5 years and notice a significant improvement in performance. Other than that, though...

Only stopped using my Bulldozer-era box because it started crashing and freezing. And a BIOS fix Asus support suggested nuked my board. I had the thing maxed out... 12 SSDs in soft RAID, GTX570s in SLI. It was a monster. I still have most of the parts and I'm sure it would run a lot of stuff just fine at the cost of heat and noise :]

Used to get this with Linux gaming and proton too. Love getting told something I see with my own eyes isn't true.

Can confirm, pc bought in 2016, upgraded CPU and GFX card, can play VR games and games at 4k with decent framerates.

It's easy to go too far in either direction instead of just doing what fits your needs (which in fairness, can sometimes be difficult to precisely pin down). Blindly going "it's old, I need to upgrade" or "it still runs, it's not worth upgrading" will sometimes be right but it's not exactly tailored advice.

Someone I know was holding out for ages on a 4790K (2014), and upgraded a year or two ago to a then-current-gen system and said the difference it made to their workflow was huge - enough that they actually used that experience to tell their boss at work that the work systems (similar to what they had had themselves) should get upgraded.

At the end of 2022 I had had my current monitor(s) for about 10 years and had spent years of hearing everyone saying "wow upgrading my monitor was huge", saying that either 1440p was such an upgrade over 1080p and/or that high refresh rate (120+Hz) was such an upgrade over 60Hz. I am (or at least was in the past) a pretty competitive player in games so you'd think I'd be a prime candidate for it, but after swapping from a 60Hz 1200p screen to a 144Hz 1440p screen for my primary monitor I... honestly could barely notice the difference in games (yes, the higher refresh rate is definitely enabled, and ironically I can tell the difference easily outside of games lol).

I'm sensitive to input latency, so I can (or at least could, don't know if I still can) easily tell the difference between the responsiveness of ~90 FPS and ~150 FPS in games, so it's extra ironic that pumping the refresh rate of the screen itself didn't do much for me.

The experience of playing modern games on a modern AAA "high end" PC is obviously going to be better if you care about things like ray-tracing and high framerates or resolution. You can't really dispute that.

But it would be stupid to say you're wrong if you just want to play that same game on your system if it actually runs. If the game is playable and you're having fun, you're doing it correctly.

I only upgrade when I start to see multiple games a year that just straight up don't work on my computer.

I'll do you ~one~two better: my computer's from 2012. I can play even modern games on high settings sometimes. It wasn't even a high specced one at the time. I think I put about $1200 into the actual components AND monitor/keyboard.

it all depends on what you want to do with it, if it works for your use case all the better!

My 2009 i5 750 (oc at 3.6) can still play any game I throw at it.

I've upgraded pretty much everything in my 2009 PC and only just finally bought a new CPU. I just need a new case.for everything. The last straws were Elden Ring being CPU bottle necked at 20 FPS and Helldivers 2 requiring some instruction that wasn't on my CPU.

Not an gamer but still using a PC bought when Win8 first came out

I do need to upgrade my CPU specifically, but that's because I've got it second hand several years ago, when it already hasn't been very good

The only thing I am a bit sad about (on my fairly recent machine) is that I can't really enjoy is Ray tracing but that's just because I went AMD 🤷

I had an i5-2500k from when they came out (I think 2011? Around that era) until 2020 - overclocked to 4.5Ghz, ran solid the whole time. Upgraded graphics card, drives, memory, etc. but that was incremental as needed. Now on an i7-10700k. The other PC has been sat on the side and may become my daughters or wife's at some point.

Get what you need, and incremental upgrades work.

My 2008 librebooted t440p thinkpad Says hold my beer. Browses the web like its a 2025 desktop Its amazing Except for the compile times (it runs gentoo :D)

I built my current rig like a month before the COVID lockdowns. Still runs everything on high/ultra even without DLSS (because my 1660 Super is too old to have it) or FSR (in fact, turning FSR on usually makes things worse).

Really, the only game recently released that hasn't given me full 60FPS@1080p consistently is Starfield. But it does run, it runs at 30-40 most of the time and can get 60 in interior cells and I never had it crash on me the whole way through my one, solitary playthrough. Which says a lot considering the track record of stability and performance of Bethesda's games and the fact that my hardware isn't even supported; it's technically below the minimum requirements.