40% of PC gamers plan on building an entirely new PC in the next 2 years? That seems like a lot. I thought gamers just upgraded for like 10-15 years.

Glad I upgraded mine before all this shit started. Barring disaster it should play games for years. I don't need all the bells and whistles.

We sold our last desktop before doing a huge move and bought a temp laptop. Now we’re unable to get a desktop because of pricing. Our last desktop cost about 750usd to build and it was pretty good specs for the time. Now the same parts would be 1500… bruh and we wanted to upgrade the whole system… seems like we’ll have to make our temporary laptop semi permanent

I got disenchanted with PC building after my first and last build. It had benefits, like being able to buy one component at a time instead of spending a bunch at once (except now it's spending a bunch many times to build). Reparability is nice too.

But my issue is that despite getting what were some of the best components at the time, I'm at a place where virtually every part needs an upgrade, so I may as well build a whole new PC, and why bother if that's the case?

If the upcoming Steam Machine is less than $1000, I am probably getting one.

I haven't really felt the need to upgrade since I first got a gaming PC. I've only ever replaced it when the last one was broken enough to not be worth trying to repair.

The funny thing is, these days maybe 85% of my time gaming is spent playing games that absolutely don't need all the processing power I have. It is nice to be able to play the occasional AAA game, but all of them have looked fine to me. I haven't really thought "damn this could look/run so much better if I spent another thousand dollars or so."

I've actually been joking with friends about the unnecessary level of detail in some of these games. I was streaming God of War Ragnarok for them and we zoomed in on Kratos' head and we joked about how some guy had to model the wrinkles on the back of his head/neck when it never matters and you only notice it when you're going out of your way to zoom in on the details.

Games have reached a level of detail that is more than enough to convey any gameplay or narrative sufficiently. There's nothing to keep pace with and I'm just hoping this one lasts long enough to avoid the price spike.

Honestly, what game is coming out that's a killer app that isn't live service trash that they'll cancel in a few months? I wish I still had my old consoles to play games on, some of them were real bangers even if I had beaten them. Space Marine 2 was my last top tier purchase and I only played it for a few weeks. Wasn't a fan of their revision of the combat system.

Outside of that, none of the big studios are making ANYTHING worth the barriers to entry now. I don't play at 4K, and I rather play New Vegas again for things I missed and different options.

My desktop PC is already significantly more powerful than my Steam Deck, yet I game on my Steam Deck significantly more. I don't see any point in upgrading my PC when indy games that run on a potato are more fun than poorly optimized AAA slop that somehow manages the lag the fuck out of the best hardware money can buy.

I game on emulators and old DOS games. The most hardware intensive game I play is Oblivion with mods and OpenMW with mods. Plays just fine on a T14 Gen 3.

This was supposed to be my upgrade cycle. I built our PC's in 2021, and i tend to upgrade every 5 years. Between the pricing and industry collapse, and just plain having more fun with low spec games, i don't know how long it's going until i upgrade again.

I upgraded my PC just in time last year before pricing went bonkers. Stayed on my AM4 board, upgraded to 64GB DDR4, swapped my ageing 2600x to an 5950x with 32 cores, snatched a 5070 to expand my smallish VRam, upgraded storage to a total of 43TB.

I'm still in the market for 4 8-16TB HDDs, since I have a very nice NAS standing in a corner. But I will probably opt for used drives with the current prices.

Next PC upgrade is the first time in a long while I have to actually replace the whole PC, but I'll ride out this Madness first.

I feel like that'd be the stats even if we didn't have a component disruption. Do all gamers build a new machine every year? They'd be broke (said the guy who buys / builds a lot of toys).

It's cool to phrase non-news as clickbait. 50% people think $MYTEAM will win the big game. Holy crap, that's news!

My pc was 8 years old and I had already planned on upgrading so when the prices started going up I got a microcenter CPU/mobo/ram bundle that was still reasonably priced. I paid extra for the video card though. I managed to keep it under 2k buying all new parts but the same build is almost 1k more expensive just two months later.

i’m a sw eng, doing most of my work on a macbook. unless i need to use vendor sw for servos, vfds, cameras.

i used to build pcs. stepped away. now all i have to game with is a legion go. i would love a gaming pc for even just 1080p. but shit’s so expensive. :(

back to factorio i go.

I'm looking at my AM4 system with Ryzen 7 5800X3D, and RX7900 XT and thinking it'll be 4 years. Actually, to be honest it might be the last PC i build, my great hope is Steamdeck and Steamframes have a baby and i won't need a big box under my desk anymore.

my 1st gen is still going. it's i7 and 32gb ram so still plenty good for what i need it to do (hell, so is the older athlon next to it, ftm), even with the unsupported 'upgrade' and ancient hdd for boot and storage. i have a spare identical mb and cpu, just in case. i have better systems, i just like that one. we have a long history together and everything is right where i want, and expect, it to be.

I mean, I had plans (wanted to invest in a 4tb SSD to run Linux on, push up to a later i7 supported by my board, and upgrade from ddr4 to ddr5), but I no longer have plans due to the madness unleashed by the rampocalypse.

So instead I purchased a pico-calc and am looking at a luckfox-lyra upgrade so I can just enjoy old school games.

I wanted to build a PC last year, but there were no sales. I considered delaying a year as RAM prices went up, but it's looking like prices won't even go down after 2 years. I might do it in 2027, but only if my finances are doing good.

It'd be more financially prudent to just upgrade my current (DDR4) machine.

I had plans. Those plans have been taken out back and shot.

Perhaps some of them are betting on the AI bubble crashing in the next two years, bringing prices down, maybe, hopefully?

If there are economic bubbles, I am figuring on picking up some gear on the cheap after the big companies start falling apart. For now, I am just buying stuff that aren't fairly generic and not prone to aging. In this case, a THOR NAS desktop tower. My older THOR V2 chassis isn't quite right for modern GPU lengths, so hopefully the THOR NAS would be able to accommodate my older hardware while permitting the new stuff.

I got about 20tb of SATA SSD and a optical drive, so I needed a tower with front bays to accommodate those. Plus, I will be trying out this newfangled "M.2" stuff with my next build for the OS & Gaming drives, which takes up further case space.

My big computer is knackered. It's about 10 years old now and properly starting to chug on even the newer indy games I like. But with a 16 month old toddler in the house and a crunch on cost of living upgrading I have nothing to spare on a new computer especially how much components are costing these days.

How does one game of one can't get gaming PC. This is currently my problem. Unless I go with pre built ones. But I built my computers my whole life. Now I'm forced to buy pre built or no gaming at all.

Glad I was able to build a new one a couple years ago. Sure wish I could afford a fucking hard drive though.