• Fonderthud
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    1 year ago

    That’s how I do my builds, just one rolling bottleneck rather than doing a complete build.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not about to do the thinking and math required… but I’m curious if this is actually a decent way to go about upgrading on a budget. If this actually gets you a comparable average experience to saving money at the same rate, but only upgrading when you’ve got enough for a whole new build.

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        1 year ago

        Not sure how people do that. It’s not like you can upgrade the processor without the motherboard (at least these days. Socket always seems to change every time I need a new one. And memory type is almost as often.

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          1 year ago

          That’s your fault for buying Intel. AMD boards get several generations. They’ve just switched to AM5. Build a system around that and you could probably throw in a great brand new CPU in about 5 years time and get ten years out of it.