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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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[–] Darkmoon_AU@lemmy.zip 13 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

This whole post seems founded on the shaky assumption that all PC gamers would be on a roughly 3 year rebuild cycle anyway...

Not in my experience.

Even my most PC enthusiast friends would only ever have been upgrading every ~5 years anyway. That makes the '40% in 3 years' an unexpectedly high number of upgraders.

My main PC rig is closer to ten years now, and no upgrade in sight. Cost of living with kids has made expensive hobbies untenable.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Same here.
I jumped on Ryzen in 2017 when it seemed to be actually taking a step forward.
Then I've just...not needed a new CPU since then. A GPU 3 years later, but other than that, I'm trucking along nicely.