I’m the one person who people go to for PC part advice, but I actually try to talk them down. Like, do you need more RAM because your experience is negatively impacted by not having enough, or do you just think you should have more just because?
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padge@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Ha, I had this exact conversation with a friend of mine a few days ago, he wants to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB and when I asked why, he just blanked out for a while and went “…because more is better, right?”
He spends most of his time playing rpg maker porn games and raid shadow legend.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I built a PC in 2011 with an AMD Phenom II. Can’t remember which one, it may have been a 740. And I’m pretty sure a Radeon HD 5450 until FO4 came out in 2015 and I needed a new graphics card. Upgraded to a Radeon R7 240, and some other AM3 socketed CPU I found for like, $40 on eBay. By no means was I high end gaming over here. And it stayed that way until 2020, when I finally gutted the whole thing and started over. It ran everything I wanted to play. So I got like, 9 years out of about $600 in parts. That’s including disc drives, power supply, case, and RAM. And I’m still using the case. I got my money’s worth out of it, for sure. The whole time we were in our apartment, it was hooked up to our dumb TV. So, it was our only source of Netflix, YouTube, DVDs, and Blu-rays. It was running all the time. Then, I gave all the innards to my buddy to make his dad a PC for web browsing. It could still be going in some form, as far as I know.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I remember the 5450! I got one when wrath of the lich king dropped because my Dell integrated graphics couldn’t handle strand of the ancients. That baby got me from 2 FPS to 15. Served me until I left for school.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I barely remember it, which is think is a compliment because it just worked! Never had any driver issues or temperature problems, didn’t demand too much power. It just did its job until I needed something more.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Can confirm, pc bought in 2016, upgraded CPU and GFX card, can plav VR games and games at 4k with decent framerates.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Specs? 2016 is pre-ryzen so I sincerely doubt what you’re saying is true. Even if you have the then top of the line i7 6800k.
notthebees@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Really depends on the game. Even early Ryzen didn’t perform well on games that were largely dependent on single core performance.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I7 7700k, 32gb ram, 2080ti
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Whether you upgrade it or not, it’s always a safe bet to clean your pc from dust once a year; and change thermal paste like 2-3 years.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
For the thermal paste, only if it heats up. It’s not impossible to break stuff doing it so better not do it to often. IMO.
eletes@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Upgrading my ryzen 7 1700 and GTX 1080 for a 5800X3D and RX 7900 XT this weekend. Waiting for the CPU but it’s cool to be able to go from first to last Gen that this motherboard can support
Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Maybe it is like drug addicts or drunks who, even though they know it is not the healthiest vice, they try to get everyone else to do it too?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I tend to flip my RAM out every 3-5 years and notice a significant improvement in performance. Other than that, though…
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Like you put the ram back in the other way - like flipping a toasted halfway through to make sure both sides get exactly the same treatment?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Like you put the ram back in the other way
Like buy replacement sticks of RAM and insert it in place of the original sticks.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
i mean, if you’re running slow ram, upgrading to faster ram would definitely help, especially if you’re on a modern platform.
You should really just download more ram though…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 months ago
download more ram
I’d sooner download a car
CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The experience of playing modern games on a modern AAA “high end” PC is obviously going to be better if you care about things like ray-tracing and high framerates or resolution. You can’t really dispute that.
But it would be stupid to say you’re wrong if you just want to play that same game on your system if it actually runs. If the game is playable and you’re having fun, you’re doing it correctly.
I only upgrade when I start to see multiple games a year that just straight up don’t work on my computer.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My 1080Ti finally died this year (started overheating). I’ve kept it though, in the hope I can fix it one day…
Every other part is just cobbled together from older rigs or sporadic upgrade pushes when a sale looks good.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Re-paste and new pads didn’t work?
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Repaste is part of it, but I noticed one of the fans isn’t spinning up as well.
Hupf@feddit.org 3 months ago
If that doesn’t work, just re-ball and new RAM
sirico@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Used to get this with Linux gaming and proton too. Love getting told something I see with my own eyes isn’t true.
sleepmode@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Only stopped using my Bulldozer-era box because it started crashing and freezing. And a BIOS fix Asus support suggested nuked my board. I had the thing maxed out… 12 SSDs in soft RAID, GTX570s in SLI. It was a monster. I still have most of the parts and I’m sure it would run a lot of stuff just fine at the cost of heat and noise :]
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
My 2009 i5 750 (oc at 3.6) can still play any game I throw at it.
dukatos@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That CPU started as a development Linux workstation, then as Windows gaming rig, then served couple of years as unRaid server and now runs a Windows 10 workstation for my mother in law. Still fast enough for everyday use.
refalo@programming.dev 3 months ago
any game I throw at it
easy to say when you never throw demanding AAA titles at it
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
IDK I have 200+ games and they all work. In terms of AAA I played all the recent Fallout, Doom, Tomb Raider and many others. I even played Hellblade in VR. Definitely good enough for me.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
My i7-920 lasted a lot longer than I ever thought it would. I still have it but i don’t need the power anymore since I don’t have time to PC game. Actually it was in a P6T v2 and I think I replaced it with a xeon processor.
merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
What sorta stuff do you play? I built an i5 2500k system a couple years back (2020-ish) and it struggled a fair bit, but was on the cusp of 1080p60 in the few games I tested like Fortnite, f1-2019, Warzone etc.
Uncut_Lemon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
2500K are good overclockers, ran one for many years at 4.7GHz. It definitely kept my CPU relevant way past it’s supposed life span.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I just don’t play online games, never have. I can play pretty much any single player/coop game at medium/1080. Maybe most recent titles like Elden ring would struggle, but I have hundreds of games in my library and they all work fine.
I even made a small VR project with it although every manufacturers said it wouldn’t work. The GPU is a 1060.
Overall, I’ve spent around 600$ on this computer, over 15 years and it still a perfectly capable PC. I have another PC and Macbook for work, but the i5 has been our streaming/gaming pc for years.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 months ago
it all depends on what you want to do with it, if it works for your use case all the better!
Kitathalla@lemy.lol 3 months ago
I’ll do you ~one~two better: my computer’s from 2012. I can play even modern games on high settings sometimes. It wasn’t even a high specced one at the time. I think I put about $1200 into the actual components AND monitor/keyboard.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Everyone’s different. Maybe for you playing a game on “high settings” in 1080p@30 is enough but others might prefer 4k@60 or 1440p@100 or more fps. Also, define “modern”.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
I built my current rig like a month before the COVID lockdowns. Still runs everything on high/ultra even without DLSS (because my 1660 Super is too old to have it) or FSR (in fact, turning FSR on usually makes things worse).
Really, the only game recently released that hasn’t given me full 60FPS@1080p consistently is Starfield. But it does run, it runs at 30-40 most of the time and can get 60 in interior cells and I never had it crash on me the whole way through my one, solitary playthrough. Which says a lot considering the track record of stability and performance of Bethesda’s games and the fact that my hardware isn’t even supported; it’s technically below the minimum requirements.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 months ago
My friend why are you acting like 5 years old is old. That’s pretty much the same console generation, never mind a serviceable age for PC hardware.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
My friend why are you acting like 5 years old is old
My brother in Christ, the meme itself is talking about a 6 year old machine.
weeeeum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I genuinely dont understand this. On time my friend bought an rtx 3060 (was using rx580).
I asked “oh cool, whay new games are you gonna play?”. She said “none, I’m just gonna play the same ones”. I asked “what was wrong with the old card?” And she said “idk just felt like I need a new one.” We play games like tf2…
I just don’t get this type of behaviour. She also has like 14 pairs of sneakers.
LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I had an i5-2500k from when they came out (I think 2011? Around that era) until 2020 - overclocked to 4.5Ghz, ran solid the whole time. Upgraded graphics card, drives, memory, etc. but that was incremental as needed. Now on an i7-10700k. The other PC has been sat on the side and may become my daughters or wife’s at some point.
Get what you need, and incremental upgrades work.
Zink@programming.dev 3 months ago
I just installed Linux on my old 2500k @ 4.5GHz system a few days ago! I haven’t actually done much with it yet because I also upgraded the OS on a newer system that is taking over server responsibilities. But you are correct on the year with 2011. I built mine to coincide with the original release of Skyrim.
The install went quickly (Linux Mint, so as expected) and the resulting system is snappy yet full featured. It’s ready for another decade of use. Maybe it will be a starter desktop to start teaching my second grader with it. (Educational stuff as well as trying a mouse for games compared with a controller)
LazerFX@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I got screwed over with the motherboard, as it had to go back because of bimetallic contracts in the SATA ports that could wear out and stop it working so there was a big recall of all the boards… Was an amazing system though and if I hadn’t seen the computer I’m currently running for an absolute steal, I’d probably still be running it with a 3060 as a pretty potent machine still.
Of course, then I’d never have the experience of just HOW FAST NVME IS! :-D
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I was rocking a i7-4790k and a GTX970 until about 2 years ago, now I’m rocking a i5-10400F and one of Nvidia’s chip shortage era RTX2060s. My wife is still on a i5-4560 (by memory) and a RX560 and that’s really getting long in the tooth with only 4 threads and the budget GPU doesn’t help matters much.
Later this year when Windows 10 gets closer to EOL I figure I’ll refresh her machine and upgrade the SSD in mine
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 months ago
I’ve upgraded pretty much everything in my 2009 PC and only just finally bought a new CPU. I just need a new case.for everything. The last straws were Elden Ring being CPU bottle necked at 20 FPS and Helldivers 2 requiring some instruction that wasn’t on my CPU.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
My 2008 librebooted t440p thinkpad Says hold my beer. Browses the web like its a 2025 desktop Its amazing Except for the compile times (it runs gentoo :D)
accideath@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yea, for general computing a lot of older PCs are very manageable. I have an old 2008 unibody MacBook laying around that I had to use for a little while a few months ago and it was perfectly usable on mint. Even felt a lot better than a lot of newer machines since apple built them like tanks and their trackpads back then were so ahead of their time they easily beat out a lot of brand new machines.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The only thing I am a bit sad I can’t really enjoy is Ray tracing but that’s just because I went AMD 🤷
daellat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What generation? People keep saying AMD is worthless for RT but that’s really only true compared to the rtx4000 series and games like cyberpunk.
Games with RT that I’ve played on AMD that ran well compared to Nvidia (because it’s still a performance hog) are metro Exodus enhanced and avatar frontiers of Pandora.
I thoroughly dislike upscaling and fake frames though, so other than games like that it’s not for me even if I had a 4080 super instead or the 7900xtx
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
6900xt, it halves my FPS in Control
Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not an gamer but still using a PC bought when Win8 first came out
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I recently repurposed a xeon CPU/motherboard from 2012 to run my Proxmox server. Bought a rack mount case, noctua fans, new ram, cpu cooler, and gavie it a good thorough cleaning. Not blazing fast, but does the job.
rockerface@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I do need to upgrade my CPU specifically, but that’s because I’ve got it second hand several years ago, when it already hasn’t been very good
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 3 months ago
4770/1060 gang over here. Upgrading to a free 9600 this weekend.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 3 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…
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Because you’re the lemming who isn’t running off the cliff. It pisses them off.
Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Gamers on Discord are “normies”? What a take, lol
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah it’s pretty normal…
A lot of people use discord to hang out with their friends.Not me though, I have no friends.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
A lot of people have forgotten gaming and talking about gaming on discord is not the norm. However, in 4chanspeak, “normie” just means “not an incel”.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Still have a PC after 12 years that my brother is using
oascany@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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 months ago
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.
oascany@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My old guy’s battery is still fine (for reference, fine means about 2-4 hours of screen time, which is about the same as new) but that’s only because I keep it locked to 60% and use it as a desktop. I also would want to upgrade to a framework but god they’re pricey. Especially the dGPU ones.
Sharp312@lemmy.one 3 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
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
i just upgraded this year, to an r9 5900x, from my old r5 2600, still running a 1070 though.
I do video editing and more generally CPU intensive stuff on the side, as well as a lot of multitasking, so it’s worth the money, in the long run at least.
I also mostly play minecraft, and factorio, so.
ryzen 5000 is a great upgrade path for those who don’t want to buy into am5 yet. Very affordable. 7000 is not worth the money, unless you get a good deal, same for 9000, though you could justify it with a new motherboard and ram.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’m rocking a 5800X and see no reason to go to 7000 or no 9000 anytime soon. It’s been great since I built the PC.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
i would’ve bought a 5800x, but the prices for the 5800x were crazy, so i just bit the bullet and spent more money on the 5900x as it was a better value, and admittedly, probably more useful to me, especially moving into the future.
5000 series was a flagship line up for ryzen i think, just before AMD started really killing intel in performance, and also before they started chasing performance so hard. It has great power efficiency, and even better performance. It truly is the chip of the era. Especially with the x3d series for people who want more cache.
i imagine whatever comes after 9000 series might be a more worthwhile upgrade for you, unless like me you like to wait for things to become more cost effective as it falls a few generations behind. That’s another great strategy as well. I also tend to find that anything less than 3 generations between CPU upgrades and you’re close to the “this isn’t really worth it” line. 2 gens might be, it might not be also though.