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[SonGoku]

Tips?

If you can sell your stuff for 90% of the og price might as well upgrade otherwise get the best (i.e RTX 4090/7800X3D) and upgrade every 3 or 4 generations of CPU/GPU depending of how good they age

 

[OverHeat]

bald gates

You son of a bitch lol

 

[Mr Wonderstuff]

Buy more.

Yes this x2 quadrillion. Buy so much that you have no money left, you cannot afford food, shelter or any more hardware, become homeless and destitute, sit on a sidewalk with placard reading "need money for food hardware". Become even more desperate and resort to drug dealing or robbery (both?!). Get arrested and sent to prison - realise the only thing to upgrade is your sanity. Upgrade sanity, get released from prison and realise the error of your ways.

 

[rodrigolfp]

I have too, but not enough money.

Tips?

If you have the money, why not?

 

[Roberts]

Seriously I got the need to upgraded to the best and latest in gaming…I’m never satisfied anyone In the same boat as me?

While I never felt like I was truly addicted to it, I did upgrade quite often in my PC days. And then I just stopped and moved to consoles. No regrets whatsoever. But that was like 14 years ago.

 

[Ulysses 31]

I know that itch.

Been eyeing the RAK from Falcon Northwest with a Threadripper Pro system in it!

 

[Pedro Motta]

Seriously I got the need to upgraded to the best and latest in gaming…I’m never satisfied anyone In the same boat as me?

Had the same problem, I just gave in to the couch and console lifestyle, never turned back.

 

[Black_Stride]

Seriously I got the need to upgraded to the best and latest in gaming…I’m never satisfied anyone In the same boat as me?

You just buy whatever is the newest thing?
For no reason, like if your CPU is perfectly fine but another is 1% faster youll upgrade?

Is this like Apple people who buy the latest iPhone at launch for the sake of having the latest iPhone at launch?


Try min/maxing and learning to love the build process cuz if you dont actually need the parts but want them to have them, you might as well buy them and keep them boxed then sell them after EOL as brand new in box.
Thatll sate your need to have the latest thing and also sate you need to be unique without any actually unique talents.
In box EOL items will make you like that awesome collector who has a no yellowing NES.

For example I find the 7800x 3d is more than enough and I don’t need to upgrade the cpu

If ArrowLake spanks the 7800X3D im sure your tune will be very different even if realistically you wouldnt feel the difference between them.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Become an audiophile.

 

[BennyBlanco]

What game do you wanna play at higher fidelity than what the 4090 can do? I’m the same way but this is the question I keep asking myself.

I’m more interested in new handhelds.

 

[Quantum253]

ROI has become pretty low lately. I love new hardware too, but luster is lost quickly.

 

[rodrigolfp]

You not going to want to hear it but it’s the truth. Switch to consoles….

Then he will become frustrated with poor IQ, performance, controls, etc, etc...

 

[Crayon]

I have a gag reflex on pc parts. It's takes me like 5 years to spend a grand on upgrades. Good thing because it would normally be the kind of thing I get sucked into.

Retro games off eBay though... Yeesh. I'm bad.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

better be downsamplin' or using a 240+hz monitor or something

also if you want more of challenge, try investing the money and you only get to spend realized gains on upgrades.
no realized gains = no upgrade.

 

[poppabk]

Keep having more and more kids so that you can hand off your old computers to them and buy new ones for yourself.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

sell your PC and get a PS5 Pro

 

[SSfox]

Fortunately I'm not, I only care about the games

 

[Dorfdad]

Then he will become frustrated with poor IQ, performance, controls, etc, etc...

I hear you lol always something

 

[Ivan]

I was like that since forever, but it was much cooler and more meaningful when we had actual pc centric games that pushed hardware in interesting ways, not to mention that they were pc exclusives and built around m/k mostly. I questioned those purchases much less when it was like that and even if it is easier for me to do it now, I don't feel the satisfaction on the games side.

I miss that whole thing honestly, but I'm still a sucker for latest hardware.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Not me.

I kinda dread seeing new hardware. It just means more money, and honestly there’s nothing out there that my 7900XT can’t run beautifully.

Currently I’m looking at grandchildren in the near future, and I’m far more interested in researching what truck I’d like to buy next year, versus another piece of gaming hardware. I’m more interested in maybe getting some kayaks, and doing more outdoor shit. I’d like to do some off roading in the future.

Theres a small part of me wondering if I should just buy a PlayStation and join the mainstream peasants?

 

[spons]

Not me.

I kinda dread seeing new hardware. It just means more money, and honestly there’s nothing out there that my 7900XT can’t run beautifully.

Currently I’m looking at grandchildren in the near future, and I’m far more interested in researching what truck I’d like to buy next year, versus another piece of gaming hardware. I’m more interested in maybe getting some kayaks, and doing more outdoor shit. I’d like to do some off roading in the future.

Theres a small part of me wondering if I should just buy a PlayStation and join the mainstream peasants?

If there's nothing your 7900 XT cannot run well, why bother with a PlayStation? Because your GPU will run fine for years to come.

 

[THE DUCK]

I'm not sure what you are talking about, my custom rig with quad 4090's (3 are just to make case look better) and 800tb of ram with 600,000tb of ssd storage in an ia self repairing case is not excessive.

 

[clarky]

sell your PC and get a PS5 Pro

He said upgrade.

 

[GreatnessRD]

I aspire to have these rich people problems. I always have the itch to upgrade, but then I remembers poors.

 

[T4keD0wN]

I solved mine by doing extremely complicated cable management and arranging the desk in such a way that it would be way too much work to just swap a single component or moving a pc even a little would require me to unplug everything a move it somewhere else. Now i dont even think about upgrading or adding another drive (i am also a lazy bastard, it helps tremendously)

 

[midnightAI]

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

He said upgrade.

It's an upgrade to his mental health

 

[Leonidas]

Seriously I got the need to upgraded to the best and latest in gaming…I’m never satisfied anyone In the same boat as me?

I upgrade every gen too, and probably will this Fall when I can see how the two new CPU architectures compare (Arrow Lake vs. Zen 5).

I am very satisfied with my machine right now, but I upgrade often because this is one of my hobbies.

I also tend to buy components which hold their value well, so the upgrade cost isn't too high.

 

[clarky]

It's an upgrade to his mental health

Sounds like nothing would be a downgrade to it tbf.

 

[FunkMiller]

Get the best specced laptop you can afford, then get a 5 year extended warranty for it.

Poof!
No more FOMO for the next half decade.

You're welcome.

Aha ha. Yeah.

That's how that works.

Definitely.

 

[Topher]

 

[azertydu91]

Become an audiophile.

And the award for the worst advice is atributed to....
I know it was sarcastic but, just in case, dont ever become an audiophile between superstition and the subjective part of liking whatever brand "kind" of sounding , it will be a nightmare....

 

[Griffon]

Get into Lego or Warhammer.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

I got the same problem. Haven't found a solution, yet.

 

[SHA]

Seriously I got the need to upgraded to the best and latest in gaming…I’m never satisfied anyone In the same boat as me?

What do you want?
If changing your experience is your priority then go with AMD threadripper, what I mean about experience is you're doing the exact same thing but your experience is way different than before.

Buy a large monitor from Asus, you're gonna love it.

If high fps your main priority then you've got it all wrong, the quality of frame what matters, it all comes down to the cpu you're using.

 

[Damigos]

Buy so much more till you re out of money. Then cry in your shower under cold water, rethink your priorities in life and never buy again

 

[DAHGAMING]

Get a better addiction instead like Heroin .

 

[Mister Wolf]

I usually do too but I'm going to hold on to my 4090 a bit longer. Frame Generation has disincentivized upgrading.

 

[R6Rider]

Try playing games instead of fiddling with hardware so much.

 

[jufonuk]

I have this to but for games.

 

[NomenNescio]

You need discipline. Set reasonable rules for yourself in regards to upgrading. When your're going to purchase hardware, think before: how long should I be keeping this? And abide to that.

I keep laptops and cellphones for three years, desktop computers for five. For consoles, it's untill the next one comes out. I could hold on to them longer, but I'm also trying to be able to resell these devices before moving on, instead of burying them myself.

 

[Sanepar]

The question u should ask yourself is how much I'm enjoying my time gaming on these new upgrades.

 

[SmokedMeat]

If there's nothing your 7900 XT cannot run well, why bother with a PlayStation? Because your GPU will run fine for years to come.

I don’t mean a current console. I’m talking years from now.
Realistically I might just drop back to whatever lower mid range is.

 

[hinch7]

Had a similar issue with audio gear. When I was buying a lot of stuff I just didn't need. And in the end I'm just happy with my £80 Philip X2's and some budget Chifi earphones and mobile DAC's/bluetooth adapters and shelved everything else.

Just take a step back and try cut back or avoid visiting communities and sites than revolve around it, and enjoy and appriciate what you have.

 

[tommib]

Buy games instead of always investing in hardware. More and more games.

 

[danklord]

YouTube is a home shopping network masquerading as a content platform. Stop the consumer media and you'll find that you won't feel the need to upgrade as often.

 

[nemiroff]

 

[Danjin44]

Fortunately I'm not, I only care about the games

Thats how it should be.

 

[Bankai]

If it makes you happy and you can afford it: go for it man, just enjoy.

Life is short. Just play this game and you'll understand:
LINK TO GAME

 

[sono]

You need the Powahhhhh!


Modern tech is awesome