The cheap way to build a decent pc is to build a mediocre pc from random old parts, and then very slowly upgrade it.
Yeah but every time I upgrade, it’s mainboard, CPU and memory because it makes no sense to only replace one of it. And that’s already 1/3 - 1/2 of the price
ship of Theseus
literally what I’m doing… sadly this comes at a cost, because the imbalance that a i5 7400 brings when combined with 24 gb ram and a good AMD gpu is a lot
Two years later everything is so much cheaper too (except that moment when GPUs went crazy expensive).
I have the impression that soon “any” pc will be totally okay for almost any workload, if it isn’t already.
16GB of RAM, 512GB/1TB of SSD and a hexacore is like cheap nowadays…
‘any pc’ is definitely not good enough. Minimum required specs will just keep rising and rising.I think even stuff like Fifa 23 requires at least an 1060 to run at the bare minimum. In 5-10 years you need a 30 or 40 series card to run games at minimum specs
That’s been the case since the second PC though. It’s a lot better now than it was in the mid to late 90’s.
Only for gaming. Everything else needs basically nothing.
Even gaming is fine if you’re not feeling broken hearted about leaving behind half-assed, broken on release, $70 AAA, Microtransaction riddled masterpieces.
Yeah true gaming seems to be a never ending requirement for more power.
Moore Power’s law
It’s like the interaction between college tuition and the amount lenders will distribute in student loans.
Lenders: “Oh, college is more expensive now…I guess we should increase our borrowing limits for students…”
Colleges: “Oh look, lenders are increasing borrowing limits! I guess that means we can increase tuition!”
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just gotta wait for 2 years!
F:
What’s on the F drive?
respects.exe
Missing the dollar that fell into the couch. It may be hard to find but it is saved!
It’s not only saved, it’s invested. “I put it into the couch” sounds like an investment hehe
Fucking John Cena. Everytime, he takes it all
My tablet screen is filthy
I’ve found that if I’m “saving” for a purchase, I need something like the adult equivalent of a piggy bank.
Mentally setting aside funds doesn’t work.
Creating a “soft partition” doesn’t work.
The best thing I can do to save (for a small to medium luxury purchase just for myself) is to literally take that money out of my account in cash and put it somewhere safe in my apartment.
If it’s not showing up on my banking app and it’s not in my wallet, it’s like it doesn’t exist. That’s the best way for me to save it.
