I ran my old 3770K machine for 10 years and it got the job done. I’ll run my current PC well into the 2030s if I have to. Just gotta hope that nothing dies on it because at this rate it’s gonna be worth more than a car shortly…
If things still aren’t affordable after that, I guess I’m going back to pen and paper again…
Kind of the same deal with the average new car costing $50,000.
We seriously need Open-Hardware now more than ever.
FUN FACT: Did you know that Russian people are buying cheap Chinese ICs & sodering them onto PCBs to make their own RAMs & it even fricking POSTs.
They do this in China too… GN did a video about it for GPUs…kinda wild. This is an untapped market in the US
You really need a good setup to handle work like that. At a minimum you need stencils, a preheater, targeted hot air, a suction wand, and a drying oven so you don’t popcorn the pcbs. It’s really uncommon to find anyone who has invested in the tools and who has the experience to pull off core swaps and memory sticks in the states. It’s not really untapped, it’s more that it’s insanely expensive and regulatory issues will crop up the moment you have to take on employees. Most people with that kind of experience and capital are looking to do metal fabrication. It’s more consistent money what with the numerous businesses dealing in metal stocks and people needing parts machined, there isn’t a ton of local work in repairing electronic stuff on that level and nobody makes any of the raw materials domestically.
I’m guessing now would be a good time for me to sell my old PC from 2020?
3900X, 2080 Super, 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB Samsung 970 M.2 storage. What would y’all pay for this right now? 😅
2000k
Oh shit, aight. That would return me about 80% of what I paid for it, and net me about $8/month if you treat it as a subscription over how long I’ve had it.
You… Bought your old PC for almost 2 million dollars?
What kind of math are you smoking.
No, about $2,500. How did you get to 2 million dollars?
Am I the one who can’t math? Stop making me second-guess myself! Unless I’m wrong, then do. But am I?! Ahh!
2000k = 2,000,000
I assumed they meant $2000. Or were they trolling?
I was just being pedantic, and tried being funny when you said you paid about 80% of 2000k.
how to force millions of gamers to use cloud computing for games? creative artificial demand, make prices on powerful PCs/ components to skyrocket and become unaffordable for most then provide cost effective ‘cloud based gaming bullshit’ as a solution.
I will completely quit games before going full cloud bs.
Yeah I have a backlog of games going back 30 years. If they don’t want her to spend any money, then I won’t. Simple as that.
It’s only really an issue for AAA titles. There’s millions of indie games out there that will run just fine on 10 year old hardware. If this kills the AAA game industry, I think it’s doing us all a favor.
Even with AAA, mid-range hardware from 5-6 years works fine at 1080p if you tune down the settings.
And one of the companies pushing all this AI — Nvidia — will happily sell you cloud gaming for $10 or $20 a month, depending on a couple factors. It’s not really a bad deal if you bought a cheap computer (or like, a base Mac) and you have low enough latency. Also, you have to own the games on Steam. They’re only renting the hardware to you, not the games. And, it gets “better,” they don’t support all your games.
Sucks for people who paid thousands for a top-end PC and are riding the upgrade train. I’ve been there. It was fun 20 years ago.
