This is pretty much my situation with my gaming PC.
I did do a small upgrade on the Graphics Card after a few years, in between the mining price peak and the AI price peak so it wasn’t too expensive, and also bought second hand for €14 a CPU that fits that CPU slot (which is twice as powerful as the original one I had and which, had I bought it new, would have cost about €200), so that extended that PC’s life a bit.
Another thing that helped a lot was replacing Windows with Linux - 16 GB memory is absolutely fine with Linux.
I starting to think about a replacement - which would have to be a full one as that motherboard can’t really support any further significant improvements (PCI isn’t really fast enough to really fully use better and more recent Graphics Cards, memory is maxed and the for that CPU slot there’s just 1 better CPU and it’s a tiny performance improvement over what I have) - but then the AI bubble came and that was that.
Mind you, similarly to that cartoon, I totally think “just keep going a little bit more, please, please, please” when I look at this PC.
All that said, my gaming needs are still served just fine with this machine since I don’t tend to go for glitzy recent AAA titles since I generally find them too linear and intellectually unchallenging for my taste.
This is pretty much my situation with my gaming PC.
I did do a small upgrade on the Graphics Card after a few years, in between the mining price peak and the AI price peak so it wasn’t too expensive, and also bought second hand for €14 a CPU that fits that CPU slot (which is twice as powerful as the original one I had and which, had I bought it new, would have cost about €200), so that extended that PC’s life a bit.
Another thing that helped a lot was replacing Windows with Linux - 16 GB memory is absolutely fine with Linux.
I starting to think about a replacement - which would have to be a full one as that motherboard can’t really support any further significant improvements (PCI isn’t really fast enough to really fully use better and more recent Graphics Cards, memory is maxed and the for that CPU slot there’s just 1 better CPU and it’s a tiny performance improvement over what I have) - but then the AI bubble came and that was that.
Mind you, similarly to that cartoon, I totally think “just keep going a little bit more, please, please, please” when I look at this PC.
All that said, my gaming needs are still served just fine with this machine since I don’t tend to go for glitzy recent AAA titles since I generally find them too linear and intellectually unchallenging for my taste.