4yrs cause you bought last gen components to save money…
Ok_Cut_5180
People who bought 1080tis:
hot-rogue
realizing its already a potato bacause your broke
but you sont care as you’ll mostly run old games and some indies
Daniel-EngiStudent
Depends on what you do with it. Your pc might become obsolete if you want to play the newest, badly optimised competitive games, but most software will probably still run perfectly fine for a long time, just maybe not on ultra settings. I yet to have problems with my gtx 1060, everything runs fine.
oylesineyiyom
i use 940mx 7500u for 7-8 years i can play games since 2022 at 800×600 pretty enough for me
To be fair I’ve had my 6900xt for a bit now and it’s still top tier though it can’t run non optimized games but what gpu can
Belhross
6800xt +5600x , end of 2020 looking very strong here.
I can play at 4k 60fps with FSR 2.1/ 3.0 at high/ultra nearly all games. Normally play at 1440p but playing in the TV is a great pleasure.
there is no fucking way im going to change my set up in the next 5 years, current gaming landscape tells me I have a good rig for a loooong time
Cyber_Akuma
PCs become potatoes far slower these days, especially if you upgrade the GPU down the line and aren’t trying to max out games at 4K.
My 3770K was still going strong with an upgrade from a 670 to a 1070 until 2020, it was mostly CPU-heavy stuff like newer emulators that took a hit. If you want insta-potatoes, look to the 90s. My top-of-the-line Pentium 1 from 1995 that blew past the maximum requirements of any game within 6 months stopped hitting even the minimum requirements of newer games. I recall a commercial from that time where a person is driving to an electronics store with billboards everywhere advertising some made up model computer of (Let’s say it was the X5), buying it, and on his drive back home saw new billboards advertising the X6 being put up.
My setup is 10 years old and I play almost any game I want.
EducationalMalware
6 years and going strong
First_Community_2534
The main reason I keep my builds under 1500.
metalgearsolidman28
Just lower the setting in games, medium settings gang rise☝😎
randomdreamykid
Mate you got the same cpu as me
Although I got 16gigs of ddr4 ram and 1tb sata ssd
sultanorang8
Some dudes are still rocking their I7 4790K and RX 580, despite the CPU being 10 years old.
cardinaltribe
Take out the word pc after potato and it’s perfect
Exciting_Rich_1716
It won’t if you stop looking at PC subreddits all the time and play on Medium settings
black_digga
My GTX 1050 ti still manages to run cs:go 2 on high graphic settings, but some maybe it won’t run new 8K games idk.
BenTenInches
I mean 5 years ago if you buy a midrange GPU like a 2070ti it’s still very relevant today and for the foreseeable future. The gap in performance every generation seems to get smaller.
1EL-ZOZ1
Dude I’m still running i5 4590 with rx 560 2gb and 8gb of ram and I mean it’s like shit but it’s getting the job done 🤷😅
SpankMFlank
Never building a pc again. Just gonna buy a fkin Dell.
peacedetski
A 5-year-old gaming PC today just requires you to dial down the settings to medium. A lot of people don’t realize how much worse it used to be.
You built a high-end PC in 1993, with the brand-new Pentium processor, and a whopping 8 MB of memory? Five years later, Windows 98 barely runs, and everybody’s talking about Half-Life and Unreal that require a processor with 3x the performance and 2x the memory to even launch. So you upgrade to a Pentium II and a Voodoo2, and all is fine for a year or two – but fast-forward to 2003, GTA VC is out, and you’re wayyy below the minimum requirements yet again.
reddebian
My PC is 4 years old and is still going strong
Karrut0
No it won’t don’t worry. You can get a decent gaming experience with even older mid range components. Take a Ryzen 5 2600 with an RX 480 and it’ll still bring you loads of fun for the next years for 200$ and whatever game you’re playing today will run in 5 years aswell. PC Components don’t „degrade“ as long as you take care of dust, thermal paste and cleaning your disk
SilentGuyInTheCorner
5 years? Mine got outdated in 2 years.
RubKlutzy9032
just try to build budget pcs mine is great for years and i just replace some parts
XWasTheProblem
My RX480 was still letting me play shit I care about last year, until it just stopped working.
Y’all blowing shit out of proportion again.
LightUndimmed
Try my situation:
– I need gaming PC
– Gf gets free PC from work they were throwing out
– Slim office PCs but already had i5 and 8GB RAM so I figured I’d just throw an extra 8GB RAM and a graphics card in there, should be good to go
– Buy graphics card in anticipation, PC finally arrives, open it up
– wtfisthis.png
– realise case is too small for graphics card
– mobo has no PCIe slot and uses ancient DDR I can’t buy anymore
– okay well at least I can salvage the HDD and CPU
– buy new case and mobo
– realise HDD uses ancient SATA cable and CPU is ancient socket no longer compatible with new mobo
– mfw when I planned on adding just a couple extra parts to an old PC but ended up building a whole system from scratch
– mfw by the time I first booted it up it was already obsolete by a good few years
IbnBattutaEG
I literally have a friend who gave up on getting a PC especially when he was upgrading a literal potato with no GPU to another relatively better potato.
Told him his new ITX can support GT1030 and he is literally able to run Apex Legends on 30fps, on an old dell made for office use 15 years ago.
Toiaat
Imagine, I built a potato pc 5 years ago, and it still runs
Severe_Ad6734
Just like ur life, after 50 years u struggle to move, but the most important thing is you have to enjoy your prime time as much as you can
Dat_Sainty_Boi
2070 gang
worstusername_sofar
Rubbish. If anything, innovation is slowing down. nVidia is literally selling non-upgrades. Next 5 years could well be the worst ever in PC DIY
MakimaGOAT
i honestly can’t wrap it around my head either.
like can you imagine a 4090 that will probably be just decent/okay by 2030+!?
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4yrs cause you bought last gen components to save money…
People who bought 1080tis:
realizing its already a potato bacause your broke
but you sont care as you’ll mostly run old games and some indies
Depends on what you do with it. Your pc might become obsolete if you want to play the newest, badly optimised competitive games, but most software will probably still run perfectly fine for a long time, just maybe not on ultra settings. I yet to have problems with my gtx 1060, everything runs fine.
i use 940mx 7500u for 7-8 years i can play games since 2022 at 800×600 pretty enough for me
https://i.redd.it/h9280o4aewkc1.gif
When life gives you potato, make french fry.
https://preview.redd.it/e0kqgczkfwkc1.jpeg?width=778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b0147c9b009434295f8715ab06273fbf71536cd
My pc is Trigger’s broom.
To be fair I’ve had my 6900xt for a bit now and it’s still top tier though it can’t run non optimized games but what gpu can
6800xt +5600x , end of 2020 looking very strong here.
I can play at 4k 60fps with FSR 2.1/ 3.0 at high/ultra nearly all games. Normally play at 1440p but playing in the TV is a great pleasure.
there is no fucking way im going to change my set up in the next 5 years, current gaming landscape tells me I have a good rig for a loooong time
PCs become potatoes far slower these days, especially if you upgrade the GPU down the line and aren’t trying to max out games at 4K.
My 3770K was still going strong with an upgrade from a 670 to a 1070 until 2020, it was mostly CPU-heavy stuff like newer emulators that took a hit. If you want insta-potatoes, look to the 90s. My top-of-the-line Pentium 1 from 1995 that blew past the maximum requirements of any game within 6 months stopped hitting even the minimum requirements of newer games. I recall a commercial from that time where a person is driving to an electronics store with billboards everywhere advertising some made up model computer of (Let’s say it was the X5), buying it, and on his drive back home saw new billboards advertising the X6 being put up.
[Potato PC?!?](https://youtu.be/KJ1HdZLwszU?si=3guiu48O794o4wyR)
My setup is 10 years old and I play almost any game I want.
6 years and going strong
The main reason I keep my builds under 1500.
Just lower the setting in games, medium settings gang rise☝😎
Mate you got the same cpu as me
Although I got 16gigs of ddr4 ram and 1tb sata ssd
Some dudes are still rocking their I7 4790K and RX 580, despite the CPU being 10 years old.
Take out the word pc after potato and it’s perfect
It won’t if you stop looking at PC subreddits all the time and play on Medium settings
My GTX 1050 ti still manages to run cs:go 2 on high graphic settings, but some maybe it won’t run new 8K games idk.
I mean 5 years ago if you buy a midrange GPU like a 2070ti it’s still very relevant today and for the foreseeable future. The gap in performance every generation seems to get smaller.
Dude I’m still running i5 4590 with rx 560 2gb and 8gb of ram and I mean it’s like shit but it’s getting the job done 🤷😅
Never building a pc again. Just gonna buy a fkin Dell.
A 5-year-old gaming PC today just requires you to dial down the settings to medium. A lot of people don’t realize how much worse it used to be.
You built a high-end PC in 1993, with the brand-new Pentium processor, and a whopping 8 MB of memory? Five years later, Windows 98 barely runs, and everybody’s talking about Half-Life and Unreal that require a processor with 3x the performance and 2x the memory to even launch. So you upgrade to a Pentium II and a Voodoo2, and all is fine for a year or two – but fast-forward to 2003, GTA VC is out, and you’re wayyy below the minimum requirements yet again.
My PC is 4 years old and is still going strong
No it won’t don’t worry. You can get a decent gaming experience with even older mid range components. Take a Ryzen 5 2600 with an RX 480 and it’ll still bring you loads of fun for the next years for 200$ and whatever game you’re playing today will run in 5 years aswell. PC Components don’t „degrade“ as long as you take care of dust, thermal paste and cleaning your disk
5 years? Mine got outdated in 2 years.
just try to build budget pcs mine is great for years and i just replace some parts
My RX480 was still letting me play shit I care about last year, until it just stopped working.
Y’all blowing shit out of proportion again.
Try my situation:
– I need gaming PC
– Gf gets free PC from work they were throwing out
– Slim office PCs but already had i5 and 8GB RAM so I figured I’d just throw an extra 8GB RAM and a graphics card in there, should be good to go
– Buy graphics card in anticipation, PC finally arrives, open it up
– wtfisthis.png
– realise case is too small for graphics card
– mobo has no PCIe slot and uses ancient DDR I can’t buy anymore
– okay well at least I can salvage the HDD and CPU
– buy new case and mobo
– realise HDD uses ancient SATA cable and CPU is ancient socket no longer compatible with new mobo
– mfw when I planned on adding just a couple extra parts to an old PC but ended up building a whole system from scratch
– mfw by the time I first booted it up it was already obsolete by a good few years
I literally have a friend who gave up on getting a PC especially when he was upgrading a literal potato with no GPU to another relatively better potato.
Told him his new ITX can support GT1030 and he is literally able to run Apex Legends on 30fps, on an old dell made for office use 15 years ago.
Imagine, I built a potato pc 5 years ago, and it still runs
Just like ur life, after 50 years u struggle to move, but the most important thing is you have to enjoy your prime time as much as you can
2070 gang
Rubbish. If anything, innovation is slowing down. nVidia is literally selling non-upgrades. Next 5 years could well be the worst ever in PC DIY
i honestly can’t wrap it around my head either.
like can you imagine a 4090 that will probably be just decent/okay by 2030+!?