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I'm still using the i7 I built up back in 2017 or so... Upgraded to SSD some years ago, will be upping the ram to 64gigs (max the mb can handle) in a few days when it arrives...

Here's my ass with an i5-9400 and an RX 580 playing all the games i want at medium. Love this PC lol

Gaming PCs are like cars, imo. You should be trying to get like 8 years out of them before you replace it.

Unlike most cars, most gaming PCs can then upgraded. Then they can be repurposed.

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.

Because you're the lemming who isn't running off the cliff. It pisses them off.

I’d answer Anon by saying that the other gamers need to feel validated, and justified in spending thousands of dollars upgrading their PCs.

4770/1060 gang over here. Upgrading to a free 9600 this weekend.

I was with them until my girlfriend gifted me a 180Hz monitor last year and now I can't deal with less than 90 FPS so I had to finally upgrade my RX580 (I just found out it stopped getting driver updates in January 2024 so I guess it was about time). High refresh rates ruin you.

Yeah I'm daily-ing a laptop from 2019 with an i7-9750, a GTX1650, and 16 gb of RAM. No upgrades except storage. The GPU is the only thing that sometimes makes me go "hm."

Still have a PC after 12 years that my brother is using

I still use a Thinkpad T440p :3

My i5 3450 is really showing its limits, but I'm broke as fuck 🤷

Greentext based AF for once.

I've been rocking a 1080ti since launch. Upgraded my 4th gen i7 to a 9th gen i9 on a sale a few years back. SSD upgraded when I got some that were going to be recycled.

Eventually I want to move to team red for linux compatibility. Other than that, I am sticking with what I have. (Doesn't help that I have 2 small children that all my money goes to. )

there is no way in hell a 2014 computer is able to run modern games on medium settings at all, let alone running well. my four year old computer (Ryzen 5 4000, GTX 1650, 16 GB RAM) can barely get 30-40 fps on most modern games at 1080p even on the absolute lowest settings. don't get me wrong, it should still work fine. however, almost no modern games are optimized at all and the "low" settings are all super fucking high now, so anon is lying out of his ass.

5 years here, a lower-end purchase to begin with. Still works fine. Only a few games I need to lower to True Potato settings to run.