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60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

About a year ago the RAM in my PC died, so I went back to my old one. Said old PC was built in 2014. It has DDR3 RAM and a Haswell CPU. After an overclock, it worked perfectly fine - at least as a stopgap.

It isn't the '90s anymore. PCs no longer become obsolete days after you purchase them.