5 years here, a lower-end purchase to begin with. Still works fine. Only a few games I need to lower to True Potato settings to run.
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My $90US AWOW mini with Celeron J4125, 8 gigs of shared memory, 128gig SSD seems to run FreeDoom as good as any of the other potatos them GamerBoi fancy water cooled custom boxes have.........
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I'm upgrading my circa 2014 PC this year, plan on rolling with this fella for another decade.
Hey, mine is from 2014 too! runs linux and is fast enough for minecraft at 30fps and the sims 4.
there is no way in hell a 2014 computer is able to run modern games on medium settings at all, let alone running well. my four year old computer (Ryzen 5 4000, GTX 1650, 16 GB RAM) can barely get 30-40 fps on most modern games at 1080p even on the absolute lowest settings. don't get me wrong, it should still work fine. however, almost no modern games are optimized at all and the "low" settings are all super fucking high now, so anon is lying out of his ass.
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When talking about hardware, if it works for you keep using it till it doesn't work. But when talking about desktop operating systems, you should be aware when it loses security updates support and try to upgrade to different one that works for you but has better security updates.
My wife is on a 1070 and I am on a 2070 both on 1440p her fave game is 7d2d runs perfect.
7d2d
Just a heads up that this isn't an acronym people know. I consider myself knowledgeable about gaming, and I had to look it up.
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I upgraded and the new graphics card makes a buzzing sound. It seems low quality despite the high price.
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I could say I still run my 2014 (or 15, I don't remember) PC, but it's Ship of Theseus'd at this point, the only OG parts left are the CPU, PSU, case, and mobo.
Same, same. Except I don't really play games, but use the computer for other hobbies. It's still plenty fast and does everything I need it to do. So why buy something that does exactly the same, just is newer and looks different?
Still on Sandy Lake/Fermi
I usually wanted to upgrade my old PC (GTX970) 2 years ago, ended up buying a cheaper PS5 and a used MacBook for cheaper than the PC upgrade. PC still runs fine, is still in use. Also: the M1 MacBook Air is an emulation beast.
The hw might've been cheaper but a console will end up being more expensive than a pc in the long run. Not to mention that the only input method available is a controller. There are quite a few games I would only olay with a kb+mouse so, for some people, a console is not even an option.
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I just bought a new machine!
It's a 2020 to replace my 2016 that I got in 2016.
This one should do for a while.
My main steed is an HP ZBook from 2014, and it is a powerful and fast computer.
I had to replace my computer because it died.