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The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

How often do you upgrade your computer? I do the same but without really trying, it's literally the case that by the time I start to feel I need a new pc there is already a new CPU socket, often several, and new ram format. I've almost never been able to actually reuse stuff. I imagine the only scenario where I could do that would be if some component straight up broke

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Maybe every 5 or so years, and generally there has been something worth upgrading the mobo for like new connections for storage. So far it has been when it struggled with 75+ FPS in games that I care about at the settings I want.

    Since it is so spread out I can't say it is a solid pattern, but so far each CPU and mobo upgrade have been together with a new set of RAM and occasionally I get extra RAM in between. Hard drives/SSDs and GPUs are whenever but generally they are years apart too.

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