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AMD is resurrecting a 4-year-old CPU, and it exposes some uncomfortable truths about the PC industry
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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My ship of Theseus PC is a hilarious combo right now: an i7-7700k paired with a 6900 XT. And it's going to stay that way until something dies. I refuse to participate in this market, no matter what special edition bullshit comes out.
Had one of those. Top of the line. Binned by Win11 four years after release. Nail in the MS coffin for me.
Similar situation here. R5 5600X, RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4, and absolutely no incentive to upgrade. I wouldn't give a shit to upgrade even if we lived in a pre-AI, pre-COVID scalping market and everything was priced fairly like it was in the GTX 10-series days. But I certainly will not be paying $700 for a fucking M.2 drive or RAM kit. Fuck alllllll the way off.
I've got a similar build - the only thing I'd consider upgrading is the CPU to an X3D but honestly that's chasing the last few drops. All games run great on pretty high settings and stable 60 - which is enough for me.
I'm the same but with a 9070XT. The newer GPU is for driver compatibility or I'd still have a 3060ti.
My i7-4790k still rips. Granted, it only rips on a few cores at a time, and it's missing some of the bandwidth and features and functions and stuff that newer processors get, but it also lets me disable TPM and shit and didn't support Windows 11 and forced me onto Linux, so I'll always be eternally grateful to it for that.
You sure everything's been changed out? Case, PSU, hard drive?
I haven't built a 100% new build desktop since like 2008.
OK? That's not what I asked. I was asking if every single component had been changed out since then. A case from 1997 would still work.