@nellePoint like, ultimately, it’s 2025; even if you’re moving from standard ATX to ITX, it’s kind of incredibly stupid to spend $400 on an AM4 upgrade; for the same amount of money your proposed new build has, you can move to AM5 and have a currently-supported chipset + DDR5.
@oracle its not stupid :) if you consider that i like using my parts right away, theres no massive benefit to switching to am5 if i literally dont need to yet, im also POOR
@nellePoint i mean, fair enough i guess??? just seems kinda baffling to us to spend $300 on effectively obsolete hardware when, for the same price, you could move to a much more modern and supported platform, but we can understand being impatient
we generally upgrade our CPU every 2-3 years or so though, so . the oldest piece of gear in our kit is an M1 MacBook Air from 2020 ^^’’
@oracle its not obsolete tho lmao, it works perfectly fine and its most recent release is relatively recent.
ive been running a 2700X for years and honestly ive yet to run into its limit, but again, i want to upgrade my server and i only make enough money for a slow upgrade path, not necessarily that im impatient but moreso that it simply doesnt make as much sense when i dont need the most powerfullest thing on the market.
the idea that modern = inherently better and slightly old = obsolete and useless is baffling and why this industry as a whole sucks ass
and modern is usually less supported and more buggy, i prefer known stable and solid ol reliable much more over shiny and new
i upgrade my anything when it becomes an actual issue for me, or when i justify it by upgrading my server (which is in a desperate state)
(also second hand market exists, and is where i get things, for much more cheap than msrp, so it is quite literally cheaper)
