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I'm the guy who bought one ridiculously expensive component that's now bottlenecked by the rest of the build until I can replace everything else haha
That's how I do my builds, just one rolling bottleneck rather than doing a complete build.
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.
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.
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.
A few months ago I spent 2800€ on a new build with a flagship AMD CPU and GPU.
I lost my shit when I realized I had installed a mobo that supported PCIe 5.0 for storage but only PCIe 4.0 for the card slots, until I checked the specs of my RT7900 XTX and saw that it was also PCIe 4.0, so I was even.
I also ignored the RAM OC compatibility sheet of the mobo, as the manufacturer can never test every possible RAM module, and I got other modules that were still within the supported OC ranges. When I tried to overclock the RAM the system became completely unstable, so I cannot use them to their full potential.
I'm still happy of my non-rgb and non-glass panels build, tho.
Hey, are you me making my pandemic build?
I still haven't upgraded the component that I need to, and it's been 2 years.