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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.
am lucky i am mostly playing older games or lighter games, though i do have more heavier games in my Steam library.(but i dont play them)
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 built mine in 2015 and planned to upgrade 10 years later but I was waiting for a better CPU than Zen 5's X3D lineup (read: either more cores or dual die cache), then the RAM situation happened. This is how I'm playing games on an Intel 4770k in 2026.
I mean, that was a solid cpu, but damn.
Actually things like Final Fantasy XIV are still very much playable on it
I have a Ryzen 7700X, a Radeon 7900GRE and 32GB of DDR5. I'm gaming at 1440p in Unreal 5 games at reasonable framerates.
It's getting to the point that...I think I have enough. I don't think I'll ever see another jump in capability like I used to. I remember when the N64 could do things the SNES couldn't. By the PS3 era, things were basically good enough. What else is there to want out of a gaming PC?
I usually do a platform/socket upgrade every 8 years and a new gpu every 4. Seems like im going a bit longer this time...
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.
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.
Yeah, I wanted to upgrade this year or the next, but unfortunately, well.
I don't see myself upgrading my 3080Ti ever.
Compared to what baseline? What's the normal amount?
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.
Perhaps some of them are betting on the AI bubble crashing in the next two years, bringing prices down, maybe, hopefully?
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.
Steam Deck
I have one. It does nice for Mobile gaming but horrible for big screen gaming. And I'm not talking lowest setting graphics I'm talking about high or more. You know pretty on a big screen tv.
I just bought a PS5 Pro. Easy. I’m so over the pc gaming world. I also have a Mac for the games that work there, like city builders and strategy games.
Downgrade? I can't even mod basic games on those. It's fine for some people but I prefer games I can control and not have a giga corp hovering over me. Plus my PlayStation account I can't get back because there customer service is non existent and I can't reset my password without them.
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.
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 just straight up refuse to play games running on UE5
I don't think it's the engine itself at fault as much as it is some of the newer tech added to it thst is only now seeing games utilizing it, like Lumen. Lumen runs like ass for me, but considering I am still on a GTX 1660 Super and that shit was made for RTX cards, it makes sense that disabling that and using the older lighting system works better.
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...
I wanted to build a brew PC this year. But I guess it'll have to wait until the bubble bursts.
If we assume that PC gamers on average build a new PC every 5 years then each year 20% will build a new PC meaning over 2 years 40% will build a new PC therefore 60% not building one in 2 years is exactly as expected.
Yeah I guess this RX 6600 I bought for $300 is going to need to last until [checks prices] forever.
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.