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.

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

My kid is getting old enough to enjoy PC gaming and I want build a gaming machine for him. But alas. He will have to just enjoy my aging PS4 instead.

I was thinking about an Intel ultra 9 series 3 mini pc for “good enough” steam play.

Yeah I guess this RX 6600 I bought for $300 is going to need to last until [checks prices] forever.

I'll make plans to build a new PC if I win the lotto or get a better job. My rig went from everything running great maxed out to needing mods to hit 60 fps on low in new releases within the span of 3 months. But to be fair, most of those are horribly unoptimized UE5 games, which can get a significant performance boost just tweaking the Engine.ini file.

I wanted to add more storage to my media mini server in the before times, but put it off at the time... It's going to be put off just a little bit longer now...

My 6700xt will be getting new wind next year with fsr 4.1. Why would I through my money away on overpriced hardware?

Just like the Epstein billionaires class saw 1984 and thought it was a model for governance, they saw Matrix and thought it was an awesome way to run people's lives. Of course, they take the role of the central computer while chips in our brains make us happy to obediently serve them.

How much is too much for a gaming PC?

Like, at what point do you think that PC gaming as we know it will die?

I didn't update my last pc in 15 years. And I just bought a new rig in 2025.

So I'm good until 2040 when, idk, the cryptospider inteligence will drive sound card prizes to the roof or whatever.

Sure, but I built my previous rig in 2012 and kept it in service up until I put together my latest one just at the end of last year. Even with the best will in the world I had absolutely no intention of building yet another new gaming computer any time in the next two years regardless of geopolitical fuckery.

I regret not buying a new CPU+MB+RAM half a year ago. I told myself that what I have is good enough for another year or two. I wanted to sell just so that it doesn't become so devalued that it's not worth it to sell, or so that it doesn't just fail on me like 3-4 year old hardware sometimes does.

I can afford new things, but I don't want to support the market in its current state. Just some months ago a 64 gig DDR5 kit used to cost maybe 200 EUR, and for less than 500 I could even get 96; now both are about triple these numbers respectively, so hard pass on this for now. I'm going to spend on things that are still reasonably priced (e.g. I'm in for a new PSU and case).

I would really want to see the company when even more people don't buy computer parts., it's not gonna be good for them.

More than I expected. My theory was if only rich people can afford upgrades, video game tech stalls too or at the very least caters/scales down to commonly owned weaker hardware. Therefore I wouldn't need to buy anything long term besides replacement parts for potential hardware failures which haven't been common in my lived experience. We'll see how it pans out.

My main concern is monopoly and permanent higher pricetags from many vendors going out of business as AI sucks the air out of the hobbyist room.

I got 64gb of ddr4 when the getting was good. So at most I'll upgrade my processor to the fastest thing my mobo can take. Unfortunately my 3070ti is showing it's age.