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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

I was with them until my girlfriend gifted me a 180Hz monitor last year and now I can't deal with less than 90 FPS so I had to finally upgrade my RX580 (I just found out it stopped getting driver updates in January 2024 so I guess it was about time). High refresh rates ruin you.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

I’d answer Anon by saying that the other gamers need to feel validated, and justified in spending thousands of dollars upgrading their PCs.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I still use a Thinkpad T440p :3

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Because you're the lemming who isn't running off the cliff. It pisses them off.

[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

Gaming PCs are like cars, imo. You should be trying to get like 8 years out of them before you replace it.

Unlike most cars, most gaming PCs can then upgraded. Then they can be repurposed.

[–] oascany@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm daily-ing a laptop from 2019 with an i7-9750, a GTX1650, and 16 gb of RAM. No upgrades except storage. The GPU is the only thing that sometimes makes me go "hm."

[–] Acters@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I'm daily driving a laptop with i7 9750h and 1660ti. Unfortunately I had to convert it to desk only as battery is dead and removed, and touch pad seems to have also broke. Still CPU and GPU work fine. I still wonder if I will upgrade and if I can afford it ever anymore. I bought this laptop for 800 new. Idk, I want a framework just because of repairable nature but I would need to spend close to 2k to match the current 64GB RAM and 2TB of storage.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago

Still have a PC after 12 years that my brother is using

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I'm still using the i7 I built up back in 2017 or so... Upgraded to SSD some years ago, will be upping the ram to 64gigs (max the mb can handle) in a few days when it arrives...

[–] Sharp312@lemmy.one 4 points 4 months ago

Here's my ass with an i5-9400 and an RX 580 playing all the games i want at medium. Love this PC lol

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

4770/1060 gang over here. Upgrading to a free 9600 this weekend.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

My current PC is an asus rog with a gtx 1070 (and a piece of shit screen that gets all fucky if it heats) that I bought used, back in late 2019. The old hard drive failed some time ago and I had to change it, sometimes the main SSD seems to get strangely fucky (BSODs followed by disk scans), too, as does the memory (BSODs about "corrupted_page_memory", also complete freezes under Linux Mint, not even ctrl alt F1 worked), which makes me think the components aren't exactly high quality (considering how shitty the screen is and asus in general in the past years, that's no surprise)

Still, I fully intend to keep this bad boy as my main workhorse for at least another 2 years, possibly longer. After that, I'll probably relegate it to being the party game machine.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

5 years here, a lower-end purchase to begin with. Still works fine. Only a few games I need to lower to True Potato settings to run.

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My $90US AWOW mini with Celeron J4125, 8 gigs of shared memory, 128gig SSD seems to run FreeDoom as good as any of the other potatos them GamerBoi fancy water cooled custom boxes have.........

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

Greentext based AF for once.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

My i5 3450 is really showing its limits, but I'm broke as fuck 🤷

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