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When the cross section of hardware being reasonably affordable and me having money to spend meets.
So never again basically.
Last time I did a major upgrade was a few years ago, got a new motherboard/cpu/ram because the old stuff was broken in some way that was causing weird problems. Glad I got that and some additional drives bought before all the current craziness. Before that it was a better GPU. So every few years I guess.
I looked because I wasn’t really sure. I upgraded late last year. The computer I’m on right now is that upgrade (based around a 5070). Before that, my last build was in 2020, but I didn’t upgrade to replace the 2020, I upgraded to add a second computer.
I could have ridden the 2020 for another 2-3 years easy. Matter of fact, looking back prior to 2020, my previous build appears to have been 2011. So yeah, I “upgrade” every 8-9 years.
I’m running a 2018/2019 laptop I got in exchange from a friend around 2022 for an old TV and some cash 25€ or so. I doubled its RAM to 16GB a few years ago and it’s just fine. Im not paniny to upgrade it anytime soon. Three only moments I think about upgrading is when NVIDIA fucks up my Linux setup with their new drivers and I dream of switching to AMD instead of figuring out how to fix it.
Well I was planning to upgrade this year, but with the AI-fuelled RAM crisis and PC parts in general being jacked up in price, I think I’m just going to wait until something breaks and hope that is after we’re out the other side of this.
Same here. Also tired that it’s essentially the same people who invested on bitcoin server farms who are now heavily investing in these for glorified image and text generators.
I added one other SDD to dual-boot linux, but it’s otherwise the same as when I built it in May 2020.
I was looking at upgrading the video card before all the prices went to shit. I’d need to get a new mobo to really make it worth the effort. I’m not sure adding more memory would really do a lot.
My previous computer was a laptop since I knew I’d be moving across the world and I got it in late 2014 or early 2015. It technically still works, though it just sits in a closet.
I’m thinking I just want to buy a higher-end laptop next time and just use this machine as a server. If I can do some gaming and video editing on it, that’s really all I need that’s intensive. I’m also debating whether or not to live in Japan full time or see if I can get work authorization somewhere in the Schengen area and just live in Japan part time. Bit of a dream with jobs the way they are now, though.
10 years
Can’t upgrade; too poor.
I generally like to aim for 5-7 years and then build for an “upper/mid” range trying to keep it below $1500 with a GPU update in the middle of the timeframe.
I got insanely lucky and decided to rebuild just before the ram crisis, so I’m set with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 64GB ddr5 ram, and a 4070ti. I really really really wish graphics cards weren’t so damn expensive… I hate being vram starved so often but with the way things are now I’m probably skipping my mid timeframe GPU upgrade :/
Whenever my old one can’t run a game I really want to play. Last time it was stalker 2. It had been about 6 years since I’d built a pretty much top of the line PC. The 1080ti was one of the best purchases I’ve ever made.
It’s kind of a fluid, ship-of-theseus thing where parts flow in and out of a horde of various workstations and servers.
Case/chasis: 15 years and counting
Motherboard/CPU: ~5 years (currently: 6.5 years)
RAM: ~2 years until maxed out (currently: maxed out)
GPU: ~3-6 years (currently: 3 years)
I had hoped to do a new build last year, but it’s just too expensive. For now I’m planning to use what I have until it breaks.
Same, except I always buy more ram than I think I’ll ever need.
Currently my desktop has 64 and I don’t think I’ve even used 32 on it with a vm running. Every other machine I destroy my ram. By the time I need more I’m probably going to upgrade CPU/board too.
This is me. Case/chasis/cpu all 10ish years old. Gpu is at about 3 years and ram in the last 2. Was planning a fresh new build but…gestures wildly. Riding it till it dies i guess
I’m usually on roughly a 5-6 year cycle. I typically aim for one or two notches below the best available and that tends to get me about 3 years on high-ultra, and another 3 on medium-high.
Used to every five years. I haven’t upgraded my rig since the R5 5700X3D came out. Haven’t bought a new GPU since the 2080ti came out.
I just upgraded my build. The original build was done 6 months before the Nvidia 10xx series came out (do the math yourself.).
The original disk storage setup was a disaster so that got changed a few years in. Three years ago, I inherited a GTX 970 from a friend (up from my 960).
And now I finally actually upgraded Mobo, CPU, GPU and Ram.
Still a AM4 socket from Asrock, basic DDR4 16GB. Intel B570. Less than 500 euro upgrade.
