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I never thought I would, but I'm glad I left the console space. My PC was barely more expensive than an original PS5 and outside of the large SSD I added later (also applicable cost to PS5) it's been fine and will be for a bit longer.
I built my PC....9 years ago? My plan included all kind of upgrades that I never did. It was a "budget" build at $900. I've not done a thing other than add a pinch more hard drive space.
I built it when I still had a 360. I bought an Xbox one, and I bought my sister one.... and I can't think of a single reason to replace it when it dies.
Between steam and emulation, I can run everything on my PC. Hell, most if it I can run on my laptop.
And it all runs smoother, faster, better.
If I find a couple hundred bucks I might be persuaded to upgrade something... but... it won't be to keep up with games technology.
Yeah, I was supposed to be able to upgrade mine. Technically still can but upgrade paths are the problematic 13th and 14th gen Intel. I don't need it now and I don't foresee needing it for a couple more years at minimum.
Yeah.. intel is making me super sad. Im on 9900k and i was planning to get a 14th gen i9 or i7 when it gets cheap. The rusting thing seems like a non issue since it was a batch of bad chips. But the voltage thing is not cool. I tend to use a cpu for 5 years and i dont trust intel being honest with their "fix" via microcode. Maybe just delay the degradtion just enough until warranty is over.
Im waiting on intel arrowlake 15th gen or waiting to see if microcentee will have a 7950x bundle. The ryzen 9000 zeries cpu like 9950x is fucked because of core parking and much higher latencies between ccd. Gaming is secondary foe me these days, so amd x3d variant cpu is a second choice if 7950x bundle doest materialize, arrowlake sucks or overly expensive. I do 3d animations and the thing that uses cpu a lot is baking simulations like fluids and also compiling shaders and cpu inbetween frames when rendering.
All you'd have to upgrade is your video card, any Geforce 3000 series card will play any game out now and any game that's going to come out in the next 10 years.
I'm personally looking at a 4070 Super. There's one with a price tag of $600 and a free featured game bundled. Unfortunately, right now that game is fucking Star Wars- Outlaws. I regret not looking into this when the bundled game was Black Myth- Wukong.
A 4070 will pretty much keep you set for games until they outlaw unregistered PCs too.
If you can spare an extra $200 the 4070 Ti Super has more VRAM and CUDA cores for AI stuff. I'm pretty happy with mine.
I have a 1060 lol and a 9th generation processor lol.
I mostly play dota anyway