I put away $10 a week and do this every 8 years. I don’t even notice $10 a week missing. I don’t care if it’s over kill or wasteful at that point. Probably would have just wasted it anyway.
I also spend the whole 8 years making up random builds that I know will be obsolete by the time I actually buy it.
Alternative perspective: build a solid mid-range PC and keep it updated. Over those same 8 years, you’ll spend like half and have a PC that keeps up w/ the latest games, just upgrade when it’s getting poor performance.
I’ve been slowly upgrading my PC since 2010 and have spent about $3k, though I didn’t do any gaming the first 5 years. I just upgrade one or two components as they become bottlenecks, and today I’m running a 6650XT w/ Ryzen 5600 CPU, and performance is pretty good for everything I care about (roughly PS5/XBox Series X perf I think).
I put away $10 a week and do this every 8 years. I don’t even notice $10 a week missing. I don’t care if it’s over kill or wasteful at that point. Probably would have just wasted it anyway.
I also spend the whole 8 years making up random builds that I know will be obsolete by the time I actually buy it.
Alternative perspective: build a solid mid-range PC and keep it updated. Over those same 8 years, you’ll spend like half and have a PC that keeps up w/ the latest games, just upgrade when it’s getting poor performance.
I’ve been slowly upgrading my PC since 2010 and have spent about $3k, though I didn’t do any gaming the first 5 years. I just upgrade one or two components as they become bottlenecks, and today I’m running a 6650XT w/ Ryzen 5600 CPU, and performance is pretty good for everything I care about (roughly PS5/XBox Series X perf I think).
You’re not wrong, I just can’t be bothered. I like to just treat it like a console where it’s just a one and done new one every X years.