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60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨mintiefresh@piefed.ca⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/60-percent-of-pc-gamers-have-no-plans-to-build-a-new-pc-in-the-next-two-years-ai-pricing-crunch-on-ram-and-other-components-paralyze-enthusiast-market

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll make plans to build a new PC if I win the lotto or get a better job.

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    • Exec@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just straight up refuse to play games running on UE5

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Seeing them have more or less a 50-50 split between running super good or like total shit tells me it’s more about how the individual developers utilize it than the engine itself being horrible.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If a PC game is not on GeForce Now, I’m not buying it. My old gaming PC is on a 1080ti and 16gb of RAM. No way I am upgrading at these prices.

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    • AliasAKA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They really want to put us on hardware as a service. Eventually you won’t be able to buy hardware, digital ownership will be eroded, and you’ll pay more for it than if we’d kept the hardware market alive. Better to just cut the cord now and if it doesn’t run on your old pc just don’t run it. Don’t pay for streaming services.

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I completely agree, and I guess I should have qualified that I meant AAA and multiplayer games. All my other games I play directly on either my Steam Deck or my old 1080ti box.

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  • ReluctantlyZen@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wanted to add more storage to my media mini server in the before times, but put it off at the time… It’s going to be put off just a little bit longer now…

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I generally upgrade my PC every five years. This usually means new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and this last time a case as well. The last time I did it was in 2019, not counting the brief window where I was able to purchase an RTX 3080 at or near MSRP in around 2022. Not only am I overdue for an upgrade, my needs have changed pretty drastically since 2019.

    Back then I was all about RGB, and sought to create the quintessential unicorn vomit PC. While I still like the aesthetic, I now know that maintenance of all that RGB can be a hassle. You need to manage more cables, and components on LED strips can fail, ruining the look of the case. The case is made of mostly tempered glass, but It’s now on the floor, obviously not ideal. The PC isn’t the only rig on my desk now (ham radios are also called rigs), and the PC has to share space with three or four of them, all with power, coax, grounding wire, and control cables of their own.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got 65gb of ddr4 when the getting was good. So at most I’ll upgrade my processor to the fastest thing my mobo can take. Unfortunately my 3070ti is showing it’s age.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I still feel like my 2070 is largely overkill. If GPU prices become reasonable I may consider an xx50/60 or equivalent if it’s a moderate improvement and lower power consumption.

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  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t see myself upgrading my 3080Ti ever.

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  • roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would really want to see the company when even more people don’t buy computer parts., it’s not gonna be good for them.

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  • Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    More than I expected. My theory was if only rich people can afford upgrades, video game tech stalls too or at the very least caters/scales down to commonly owned weaker hardware. Therefore I wouldn’t need to buy anything long term besides replacement parts for potential hardware failures which haven’t been common in my lived experience. We’ll see how it pans out.

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  • makeshift0546@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Absolutely worthless number. It was probably at 50% before.

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Im not even buying parts and components I would really like to get.

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    am lucky i am mostly playing older games or lighter games.
    though i do have more heavier games in my Steam library.(but i dont play them)

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a Ryzen 7700X, a Radeon 7900GRE and 32GB of DDR5. I’m gaming at 1440p in Unreal 5 games at reasonable framerates.

    It’s getting to the point that…I think I have enough. I don’t think I’ll ever see another jump in capability like I used to. I remember when the N64 could do things the SNES couldn’t. By the PS3 era, things were basically good enough. What else is there to want out of a gaming PC?

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  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I usually do a platform/socket upgrade every 8 years and a new gpu every 4. Seems like im going a bit longer this time…

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  • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, I wanted to upgrade this year or the next, but unfortunately, well.

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  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Compared to what baseline? What’s the normal amount?

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wanted to build a brew PC this year. But I guess it’ll have to wait until the bubble bursts.

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