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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• kbal@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah I guess this RX 6600 I bought for $300 is going to need to last until [checks prices] forever.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I just straight up refuse to play games running on UE5

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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