Fighting the urge to upgrade

[Ergroilnin]

So yeah, this is not a serious topic, I am just wondering, if there are people feeling same as me (or not and why).

 

My PC basically comes from 2013 (other than a new SSD and GPU) and for what I do with it. it is still basically 95% doing it's job perfectly.

 

Then I read all the time about the new stuff, about the specs, about perf/price and I get a nerdgasm and totally want to get that new shiny stuff and build it myself... Only to realize that for my use case, I basically would not get much, if any, actual upgrade on the performance.

 

So I am kind of putting myself to ease with thinking that the longer I wait, the bigger performance jump I will see (just an example, now I am on DDR3, but waiting a year or two will get me to DDR5, totally skipping DDR4 etc.).

 

Obviously if you love to play the newest triple A games or if you use your PC for productivity, then upgrading totally makes sense.

 

It's just that I have a sort of an inner fight within myself to get the new stuff because it is so lovely, even if I would not really get much out of it.

 

Anyone else feeling the same?

 

[PlayStation 2]

I was trying to fight it, but I had to cave when I realized that I couldn't just go on with swapping capture cards every time I wanted to play a PS2 game or every time I wanted to capture shit through HDMI. 

My mighty RX 580 is still truckin'... and is holding back my CPU now.

[Moonzy]

1 hour ago, Ergroilnin said:

Anyone else feeling the same?

yea, but i find it easy to justify when i just sit down and think "can i even tell the difference?" most of the time the answer is no

 

that said, im also the person that have a 3900x + 2070S/3060Ti, but choose to play games mostly on my older rig which is i5 6600 + gtx 970 rig, just because it's more comfortable lol

 

sure, the 3900x rig defo stutters less in some games i play, but -shrug- idk how to explain other than my bedside rig is more comfy, so im pretty comfy using older hardware to game, even though the difference is jarring

i still move to my main rig if im playing serious games tho, or if im speedrunning stuffs

[Teddy07]

Yep, because buying stuff feels good but I can control myself for the most part.

[jones177]

 

2 hours ago, Ergroilnin said:

Anyone else feeling the same?

Not at all.

 

It started with the original Doom in 1993. My 386 looked like a slide show so I had to upgrade.  The motherboard and 486 in the build only lasted 6 months and was replaced with a Pentium. It was steady upgrades from then on. 

 

In 2011 I bought a i7 2600k it was not upgraded until 2018 but at he same time vram started become an issue with my modded games so I upgraded for vram every time a card came out with more. 

 

In 2015 I saw a LTT video on a Samsung 4k monitor and in the same week I visited a Tiger Direct store and they had the same monitor on display running a 4k demo. I had to have one and that started my quest for more GPU power that continues to this day.

 

[Guest]

Hide your money from yourself so you can't buy upgrades. 

 

If you don't need it, don't get it. 

 

I really want to upgrade my computer but it works well so I'm keeping it the same. 

[Mooshi]

If DDR5 is anything like DDR4 when it launched, you're not getting a tangible benefit till it's mainstream. I've upgraded from a first gen Ryzen 1600 to an i7 10700k since the 5800x was overpriced ironically. By the time this rig needs upgrading beyond graphics card, DDR5 would have already matured.