Inflation; due to costs rising, people are less willing to invest that much money on their (new) computers and hardware. Since the article refers to “average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks”. It could be as simple as people having less purging power to all buy new chips. And most people are just “fine” with using 5, 10 or even 15 year old hardware as their daily driver.
I refuse to buy hardware until my current shit breaks from usage… These parasites done fucked around. I am done playing these stupid games. My shit can last through 2030 easily.
I used to be a hardware whore… but no more.
Denying these parasites profit as much as I can in every market in participate in!
I actually just recently upgraded to new hardware, but you’re right I myself (as a programmer) was actually using not long ago 15 year old PC. Well the motherboard, case and PSU was 15 years old. I upgraded the GPU along the way, twice in total. And I added more ram. And 2 years ago I upgraded to the CPU for 10 euros/dollars using some used server Xeon processor that was compatible with my PLGA1366 socket.
So actually depending on your needs and small upgrades, you can use old hardware for years. And yes I was still playing games on this 15 year old desktop PC. I just recently upgraded like I said, because mainly I was limited to only SATA 2 and USB 2.0 connectors, so … that. And yes my CPU became the bottleneck for my GPU as well. And I was not able to use NVMe drives of course or anything modern to that regard.
EDIT: And my fuses always tripped when I switched on the old computer. Awh well, after 15 years it was time to upgrade.
I refuse to buy hardware until my current shit breaks from usage… These parasites done fucked around. I am done playing these stupid games. My shit can last through 2030 easily.
I used to be a hardware whore… but no more.
Denying these parasites profit as much as I can in every market in participate in!
Always start your search with used ;)
I actually just recently upgraded to new hardware, but you’re right I myself (as a programmer) was actually using not long ago 15 year old PC. Well the motherboard, case and PSU was 15 years old. I upgraded the GPU along the way, twice in total. And I added more ram. And 2 years ago I upgraded to the CPU for 10 euros/dollars using some used server Xeon processor that was compatible with my PLGA1366 socket.
So actually depending on your needs and small upgrades, you can use old hardware for years. And yes I was still playing games on this 15 year old desktop PC. I just recently upgraded like I said, because mainly I was limited to only SATA 2 and USB 2.0 connectors, so … that. And yes my CPU became the bottleneck for my GPU as well. And I was not able to use NVMe drives of course or anything modern to that regard.
EDIT: And my fuses always tripped when I switched on the old computer. Awh well, after 15 years it was time to upgrade.