I remembered a time when companies releases new models and upgrades every seasons or so. As soon as you took it home and it became E-waste.
I remembered a time when companies releases new models and upgrades every seasons or so. As soon as you took it home and it became E-waste.
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So true 😂
It was a wild time. I remember going from a 300mhz AMD k6-2 to a 600mhz P3. Just a few years and you had DOUBLE the performance. It was more fun for me than was depicted here.
NVIDIA today is literally Bates! Except the video failed to reflect the massive price increases with each generation, limited performance increases, and shortages for the first 6 months of a launch.
Pretty sure this clip is from The Onion Movie in case anyone is wondering
How I buy and build my PC:
“Can it play old shit just fine with great FPS?”
The games in question:
Terraria, Minecraft, Warcraft 3, Freelancer
Gateway had an ad about this. They indicated that your computer would be out of date by the time you got it home. Then they came out with a trade up program.
Conroe was a massive step up back in the day. Going from an athlon64 to a Q6600 was wild.
Paul Scheer
The geneeational improvements for a lot of tech back then was very exciting and exhausting at the same time.
Now it’s kinda nice if kinda boring. We’re lucky to a 20% generational improvements so you can skip a few years if planned obsolescence doesn’t bite you in the ass.
Nowadays I’m reminded by how the 1080ti is still a perfectly usable card
2025. 300 dollar products perform worse than GPUs from 7 and 8 years ago with less VRAM 😭. It wasn’t just made e-waste by innovation…they sell you it from the start lmao
This is probably the funniest skit about PC upgrading I’ve ever seen lmfao. Post saved.
The tip of definitely happened during the AM4 era. I think we reached a tipping point where I feel like things are regressing a bit. Sure we got path tracing and ray tracing but like the TAA and dithering is AWFUL. Happy CPUs are insanely fast and cheap. Pissed that GPUs are basically in a constant Crypto / AI boom.
Well Athlon 2500+ oced to 3200+ and Ati 9700pro served me long
So the “wait or buy now” did not change at all.