Comment on Anon builds a new PC

jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I put away $10 a week and do this every 8 years. I don’t even notice $10 a week missing. I don’t care if it’s over kill or wasteful at that point. Probably would have just wasted it anyway.

  I also spend the whole 8 years making up random builds that I know will be obsolete by the time I actually buy it.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah this is the easy way to do it. My bank even makes it super-easy to spin up separate savings accounts with just a few clicks and then create auto-transfers.

    Right now I instead of a set dollar value have it set to transfer 1% of my checking balance into such an account. Usually that’s about $10-20 at a time 1-4 times a week depending on what I’m saving up for. The nice thing about doing percentages is if I’ve spent less than usual in the last couple of weeks it will transfer more, and if we made more/larger purchases it will transfer less

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Alternative perspective: build a solid mid-range PC and keep it updated. Over those same 8 years, you’ll spend like half and have a PC that keeps up w/ the latest games, just upgrade when it’s getting poor performance.

    I’ve been slowly upgrading my PC since 2010 and have spent about $3k, though I didn’t do any gaming the first 5 years. I just upgrade one or two components as they become bottlenecks, and today I’m running a 6650XT w/ Ryzen 5600 CPU, and performance is pretty good for everything I care about (roughly PS5/XBox Series X perf I think).

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    • Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re not wrong, I just can’t be bothered. I like to just treat it like a console where it’s just a one and done new one every X years.

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