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I love this comic!! Thanks for sharing, I wouldn't have discovered it otherwise.

Think I'll go toss them a Patreon sub.

My build is from 2019, it wasn't blistering hot but was pretty speedy. It's keeping up well enough, though I don't play new enough games to really matter.

I was in this exact position with a 2015 computer and fortunately was able to jump in January 2025.

This is pretty much my situation with my gaming PC.

I did do a small upgrade on the Graphics Card after a few years, in between the mining price peak and the AI price peak so it wasn't too expensive, and also bought second hand for €14 a CPU that fits that CPU slot (which is twice as powerful as the original one I had and which, had I bought it new, would have cost about €200), so that extended that PC's life a bit.

Another thing that helped a lot was replacing Windows with Linux - 16 GB memory is absolutely fine with Linux.

I starting to think about a replacement - which would have to be a full one as that motherboard can't really support any further significant improvements (PCI isn't really fast enough to really fully use better and more recent Graphics Cards, memory is maxed and the for that CPU slot there's just 1 better CPU and it's a tiny performance improvement over what I have) - but then the AI bubble came and that was that.

Mind you, similarly to that cartoon, I totally think "just keep going a little bit more, please, please, please" when I look at this PC.

All that said, my gaming needs are still served just fine with this machine since I don't tend to go for glitzy recent AAA titles since I generally find them too linear and intellectually unchallenging for my taste.

My last PC purchase was in 2021, which seems to have been just about the optimal time to buy before everything went to shit

I've got ten year parts in two machines but I got a weird blessing in disguise when my old DDR4 mobo died a couple years ago and forced me to go full DDR5, new CPU and so on. I was upset then, not so much now.

You just never know when a bad thing ends up being a good thing.

Me 8 years ago building my PC, "I'll go used this time so I can get the best PC possible for my budget, and I'll slowly upgrade to new as I need to."

Me today,

I got everything clock capped and undervolted, as much as I can. Fans aggressive. I get upset if I forget to turn her off at night.

Hold on, baby, hang in there.

I might not have the fastest processor (Ryzen 5 3600) and my graphics card is long in the tooth (5600 XT), but damn am I smug for buying 64GB of DDR5 years ago.

Just wish 2 years ago I'd talked my boss into upgrading my work laptop from 8GB. No chance now.

I built my PC in 2021, and while it didn't have top of the line components or anything, it was probably upper low-range to low mid-range back then (minus the GPU because I only bought that after the pandemic, when prices went down a bit). If it lasts me 10 years, I'll be happy tbh. Building a PC right now, or having to replace broken parts, sounds like an absolute pain in the butt q-q

really glad my wonderful partner got me a refurb'd mobo/CPU combo for christmas last year

and also that one of his online friends was generous enough to just ship him a 4080 for free earlier this year when they upgraded their own card and he offered me his 3060, which has been working better than i expected under linux (i wanted to go all AMD but i'll take what i can get atp)

I got crazy lucky and built my pc right before the prices skyrocketed. I accidentally did a ship of theseus because every time I bought a part it was incompatible with another part until I had a brand new pc except for the hardrive.

glad I splurged and bought a 4070 when cross shopping with a 3060

glad I bought 16GB more ram on a whim bc I knew I wasn't going to pay for a new mobo any time soon

glad I bought a couple 2TB SSDs when streaming services could not longer provide me an experience worth paying for

glad I don't care to play the newest AAA games or watch shows/movies as soon as they come out

I've got several computers in pieces and two other old af ones now running Linux perfectly fine

the problem is not the hardware. the problem is the inefficient software that requires you to get better hardware.

I share the same feeling in my bones.

This makes me glad i splurged on parts in college, i upgraded to a used 3090 when the 4090 came out, all in all got a pretty decent deal on it

yeah. kinda wish I had built a new system in 2023.

[REDACTED] all shillionaires.

My RX 6900 XT randomly shuts down

2030:”The AI bubble’s gonna pop any week now, I’m sure of it.”