On a whim I decided to look into getting a second ssd, so I could dual boot more easily, etc. The 2 TB nvme SSD I bought over 2 years ago for $135 is now $370 🤯 Yeah nah…
Don’t exaggerate that badly you piece of s…wait a second, let me check. Oh fuck. I haven’t checked prices since I upgraded my main server and main gaming rig. I would now have to pay like 5000 more. After just checking some main components. But hey, the tower probably is still okay…
Fuck. This. Shit.
Lol not gonna happen. Ill wait until my drives die at that price.
This whole post seems founded on the shaky assumption that all PC gamers would be on a roughly 3 year rebuild cycle anyway…
Not in my experience.
Even my most PC enthusiast friends would only ever have been upgrading every ~5 years anyway. That makes the ‘40% in 3 years’ an unexpectedly high number of upgraders.
My main PC rig is closer to ten years now, and no upgrade in sight. Cost of living with kids has made expensive hobbies untenable.
Same here.
I jumped on Ryzen in 2017 when it seemed to be actually taking a step forward.
Then I’ve just…not needed a new CPU since then. A GPU 3 years later, but other than that, I’m trucking along nicely.
Okay surely there is survivor bias for who ever the fuck is answering these polls but doesn’t that number mean jackshit? Who spends thousands of dollars with plans to upgrade within 2-3 years? fucking less than 40% of pc gamers that is for fucking sure.
My 1080ti’s retirement has been indefinitely postponed.
I built my first PC last November and because RAM was about 2-3 times the price that it should have been I passed on it. Now it’s like 5x the price and it’s not even a choice anymore, but I think I still made the right decision by not financially supporting those prices. Got 16GB of second hand SODIMM and some Sodimm to Dimm adapters and honestly the PC is fine. In my original parts list I had planned to get 128GB just to max out the board and not think about it ever again (would have been a reasonable 550€ back in September) but now I think I’ll actually coast a bit longer with my 16GB. It should be fine for the next few years at least, especially since there’s no overhead from Windows BS on my machine.
Out of curiosity, is there any other reason for 128GB other than “just to max it out”?
Because if you don’t actually need it, you’d get better performance with 64GB or 48GB due to being able to use higher clock speeds. (Depends on the CPU)
Nope, no other reason! I’m just getting a decent deal on PC parts when I let my employer buy them for me so I have a tendency to splurge on tech without really double-checking the specs. Can’t justify that with the current RAM prices though haha
But thanks for the tip! I’ll keep it in mind when I do actually decide to upgrade sometime
When the AI shit flops and when it does bursts… there will pc parts for everyone!! Can’t wait.
Not really, many of the datacenters’ components can’t be used on PCs and many companies will go bankrupt (and won’t make more). If anything, PC parts will get a modest fall.
All I need and want are hard drives.
I too hoard a great deal of data and pray for the day ServerPartDeals has actual good deals again
When I upgraded my desktop last January with all new everything I thought I was just getting ahead of tariffs…I did not foresee that memory and ssds and hdds and silicon would all explode in price. Glad I pulled the trigger when I did!
To play all those games that aren’t being made?
wdym? There are tons of awesome games being made all the time. I’ve really been enjoying Slay the Spire 2.
I don’t think anyone needs a new rig to play STS2, this decade anyway.
40% seem to have disposable income to be able to afford a decent build at today’s prices. I couldn’t.
It’s not always about if one COULD. I could, but I’m also a cheapskate. And these prices are neither fair nor fun. It’s just greed. So fuck them until prices go down again. If ever.
I will only upgrade if the current things catches fire or eats my food.
Yeah, even with my disposable income, I don’t dispose of it indiscriminately. I try to get maximum value out of my fun.
Exactly. Bang-for-bucks-ratio must be good or i’m not interested. No matter how much i want it or how much money i could throw at it.
I could afford to build a new PC if I completely depleted my “fun things” saving account, but it’s not worth it because for the price of a mid-range gaming rig I could probably buy a private island.
That’s the wealth inequality.
Be an interesting rabbit hole to investigate. 40% seems high for people to afford boutique building at retail component prices.
You’d need to find out what % of the population would build a PC, how education influences that number, how wealth influences that education, and whatever else.
Probably less than 1% of the population would fit in that actual number of people willing and able to buy and build at current pricing.
An GMKtec EVO-X2 with 128GB was in my radar earlier last year, but at $3200 this is not something that I can justify buying.
I bought a rog ally x and it plays all the games I need.
I only play sh**ty games that don’t need much CPU anyway
And steam frame I’ll buy too
I would bite the bullet and upgrade if I thought AI wasn’t a bubble, and the new prices were the new normal.
It’s going to roll over and die soon. Not because it’s bad ; bad technology absolutely has replaced good technology many times in the past ! Just look at streaming slowly replacing Blu-Rays.
It will fail, because it is too expensive, irremediably so.
With an initial config on am4, I left it untouched (except from watercooling because the shit is fun) for 7 years, with a ryzen 7 5700x3d and doubling the RAM capacity (16Go to 32Go). The new ryzen died and I got a ryzen 9 5950x, I paired it with a rx 9070xt and a ventirad, and now I hope it can last for a decade. I don’t even play modern demanding games (most recent on the list would be cyberpunk 2077)
So 40% do? I feel like 40% of a population building a new PC every 2 years is very significant
Yeah that’s weirdly high, my build is from 2019 and works great
On the bright side, now I can divert my small amount of extra money to more tattoos since my main expensive hobby is priced out by ai slopcenters
