• SpookyCoffee@lemmy.world
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    I mean, you can’t really overspend on a pc. If you treat ur parts right, that overspending will simply turn to a very long lasting investment into a machine that won’t be obsolete for over a decade to come.

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    My little brother is autistic and plays old school Runeescape on a the craziest rig. Massive 4k ultra wide monitor. The best GPU on the market waiting for the next new GPU to come out. Has the best possible internet package.

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    I have a 7 year old desktop PC that 3 of the memory slot is dead. So I can only run a 8gb single memory slot.

    It has a GTX 2070 and I’m still able to run 90% of the games I want to play.

    Forza 5, Split Fiction, BeamNG(this one is def maxing it out).

    Maybe I’ll just buy a used motherboard, haha

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      Oh brother 8gb of singe rank memory is killing whatever CPU you got. The amount of stutters it must produce is killing me from around the world

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        Windows, on 8GB, can function with around 1.5GB. If your game only uses 6GB, which most games from a few years ago can do at medium settings, you can actually run that game.

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          Yes but only 1 stick runs significantly slower and with more stutters than 2 sticks. Same way 2 sticks with SR will run slower than 2 stick of DR

          To allow the memory capacitors to recharge between actions there are delays or “timings” set for each type of action, row and bank. Having more available banks will make sure the controller only has to use the short delays set instead of the repeat action long delays.

          There is a big difference between being able to start a game and not kneecapping your CPU.

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        It helps when I run nothing besides the game and shut down all other processes.

        The only real trouble I have is with beamng.drive

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    Why bother with new games when you can play old games on max settings and/or mod the ever-loving crap out of them?

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      The purpose of fancy PCs is to run Minecraft with shaders and a bunch of mods

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    Only reason I need a new PC is my CPU being too old for POE2 and also too slow for stellaris, that’s not a lot

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    It has become a sort of tradition for me to play some sort of game that really doesn’t need the performance as the first game on any new computer I get.

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      Some of my favorites from back in the day are just so dated by this point that the nostalgia isnt cutting it. Modern games dont hit the same, old games dont play right…

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    It’s me, but I haven’t saved up enough yet. Even after having seen this, and understanding it, I still want it. ;-;

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      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.