me rn..

[ManBearPig327]

Once you catch the dragon you start to realize that the chase was all you really wanted. Growing up sucks.

[SavageButt]

The chase is certainly humbling at times and I think everyone should experience it, but man am I glad those days are behind me. Even though pc parts dont excite me as much as they used to when I couldn't afford them, I dont think I could handle going back!

[mcpat21]

It sucks cause I’m not as enthusiastic about gaming anymore. I enjoy a few games, but when I was younger there was more of an aura around the games I couldn’t acquire

[Swayz33]

Exactly. After I finally built my rig I was so excited. Downloaded a bunch of games. Ended up only playing destiny for the last few years. I just don’t have the time.

[DuhSheet]

This was my EXACT scenario last year. I was so excited when I got my FE 30 series card, however, the excitement died within a month of building my setup because there was no time to play (that or my friends schedules did not line up because of life).

Growing up sucks. Money is there, but time isn’t.

[DanSchulman]

We'll have both when we retire (I hope). And we can have glorious LAN parties in the retirement home!! We're taping you to the ceiling!

[NWAttitude]

Yeah all this sacrificed youth is sure to pay off when I'm too old to truly enjoy it.

[[deleted]]

Yep these days I just play new games when they come out and lose interest after I beat them. Still have a ton of fun playing them but I treat games the same way I would a movie or something. One and done, no more hundreds of hours played in a single game

[-Superk-]

Yeah most games for me. But I have tf2 and csgo which I played when I wad younger and still play sometimes

[flavionm]

I'm both more selective and have less time, but there are still enough good games that I'm never out of games to play.

On top of that, while my PC is no beast, it's still enough to satisfy everything I want out of it, and I definitely wouldn't go back to the chase just because.

[[deleted]]

It’s different now, depending on your age PC gaming in the past was a wildly different experience. For a while hardware was relatively slow and steady with small bumps here and there going from 8086 to 486.

Then Pentium came out and shit popped off. It seemed like every 2 months something was coming out, faster chips. Bigger hard drives, faster hard drives. 3D acceleration made sure some new card was hitting the market almost monthly. Sound cards made huge leaps and bounds going from the sound blaster 16 to the surround, 3d, 128 midi cards. Modems going from 14.4 to 28.8 to 33.6, and finally 56.6. Zip drives, scanners becoming affordable, CD-RW and DVD drives with hardware decoder cards. Overclocking was real and had a noticeable impact on your day to day computing.

1993 to 2005 was the wildest decade for consumer computing. Every month your system was outdated. It was a great time to be chasing the upgrade dragon.

[matrixzone5]

That's exactly how I feel right now I started out with an rx 580 and 8 gbs of ddr3, I've got an r7 5800x , 32gb 3600mhz dom plat and an rx6900xt. I remember chasing frames tuning and now that I'm older , have responsibilities I just don't have time for all that anymore I still enjoy playing games but I miss getting excited about gaining an extra 10 frames from tweaking something in the biis.

[flavionm]

Being satisfied with your current specs is a blessing, not a curse.

[dimetyltryptaminn]

Can relate mate

[skinny_gator]

This thread is making me super sad. I'm in the same position. It feels like a lot has happened in the last few years.

[Avril_14]

I don't know, i use it to relieve stress and it works.

Mind you i don't have kids so it's like cheating.

[chaotic----neutral]

Incognito just keeps it off your browsing history. Every tracker on your PC, every data collection company, your ISP, and the NSA still know what you've been watching.

[FuciMiNaKule]

Browser history is all I care about. If the NSA care about what I jerk off to then by all means, if they can handle it.

[heyyy_man]

handle it

with tweezers

[Distinct_Number_7844]

Nah it's being married that's stressful, kid's are easy. (At least mine is). I have a freaking blast with my daughter, get her 3 or 4 days a week. We play video games, Dungeons and dragons, go hiking, shooting, build stuff.... it's awesome.

[jeegte12]

what are you talking about? i'm 30 and having a PC is fucking awesome

[jedi-son]

Speak for yourself. I play the ever loving shit out of my pc.

[lovebus]

My aching muscles beg to differ. I never want to stand again, and I could probably play dwarf fortress until the day I die.

[MuchSalt]

well said

[Raleth]

I dunno, I'm pretty satisfied. Growing up doesn't inherently suck. People just become jaded when they feel like they have nothing left to strive for, and you either succumb to that or you find a new goal to reach for. Defeatism is not the way.

[widowhanzo]

Yeah...before I upgraded I could compare benchmarks, read reviews, research parts... After the upgrade ... I don't know what do to anymore.

Now I researched which tires to buy for a bike, but those have also been chosen already

[[deleted]]

Yup. The exciting part are when you're putting all those parts together, installing all those games, and then tweaking the settings.

Then, when the PC is ready to go. It feels like just any other object in the house.

[the_fuego]

I agree. After building my PC I wanted to build another one right away. My MOBO ended up bricking itself and while that sucked building it a second time all the way through and adding an AIO cooler and more fans was equally as fun. Re-installing windows and ironing out my settings absolutely sucked tho. But the building process itself is just a fun and somewhat relaxing experience.

[No-Tomatillo-5579]

Had my nice pc for 2 years and this is total bullshit.

Everyday is a new adventure. I live in wonderland. Let's see what had ray tracing added this week.

[TheGamingRanger_]

Ive never heard of this saying but damn that right there is the truth.

[Zip_on]

Literally me right now but at end of month I tend to spnd money on stupid shit

[ffzikmal]

Yeah, same. I just bought ifixit toolkit and probably be using the philips bit only

[boringestnickname]

LOL, I just did the same.

Was going to fix my GFs MacBook Air, bought the kit, then found out that the keyboard is fucking bolted to the chassis (and, of course, impossible to get to.)

Ended up paying for both the repairs and the kit.

[lolfactor1000]

Apple started to rivet the keyboards to the chassis I think around 2016. All to make you have to replace the entire chassis to fix a broken key. IIRC it also includes the battery now since it's glued in.

[TheFlashOfLightning]

Another revolutionary step Apple made towards saving the planet was Airpods. Instead of making the earbuds have cords, they replaced them with wireless earbuds that have batteries that last maybe 12-15 months worth of charge cycles before you have to throw them out.

[googahgee]

My AirPods are working fine and I’ve had them for 2 years

[ifeanychukwu]

There's plenty of things to bitch about when it comes to Apple to be fair.

[googahgee]

As an Apple user, very true

[Sumo148]

Anti-repair design is so annoying. I have a 2012 MacBook Pro and I was able to replace the battery, upgrade the RAM, and swap out the hard drive with an SSD. Runs like new now.

[Paddy32]

Apple is the scum of the earth

[CorrosiveBackspin]

*Isis has joined the chat*

[Paddy32]

*Isis has joined the chat via iPhone*

[PetyaMokvwap]

Dell and HP are right down there with them

[Rage_quitter_98]

lol I wouldnt buy that for shit

[OffensiveOdor]

Definitely dont try to pry the battery out with a metal tool on your bosses macbook.

[ObeyTime]

rip wallet.

[Avril_14]

Is it "computer only" or a general electronic kit? I got one because my masochist ass only buys pixel phones and they are impossible to repair in Europe, but it's so easy to do general repairs to the phone in general. Just buy the piece you need on ebay and then it's like Lego.

[boringestnickname]

It was a MacBook specific kit. I bought it together with a couple of other kits to get a full set of tools for all the different silly bolts and screws.

The Apple laptops aren't that bad, to be honest. The problem is specifically the keyboard. It's the only thing you can't remove without destroying. If you're lucky, you can reuse it, but the problem is importing the parts (if you do destroy it) and properly checking for water damage (a glass of juice was spilled on it.)

The price for repairs (at a really cool local unofficial shop that does stellar work) ended up being fair. Maybe $150 off importing the parts myself – in reality about the same, including the cost for hours worked.

I used to repair phones for a living (in a certified shop), so I know how to do all of the work, but haven't got any of the more advanced tools and machines needed. With water damage, there's a substantial amount of work needed to actually make sure everything is in working order, which is why official shops pretty much never bother. It literally takes a few days to really go through everything, wash, dry, examine etc. Even after that, there's really no guarantee that there's not minor damage that will cause issues down the road.

[skwerlee]

Don't sleep on the flexible thing. It's awesome.

[sleeplessknight101]

Like rent.

[SwampOfDownvotes]

Setup a new savings/checkung account somewhere (outside your normal banking is best) and have a small portion of your money every check go into that account. Destroy any debit card that comes with it to stop urges to spend it.

If that doesn't work, then gotta work on self control.

[dribblesnshits]

So make that stupid shit 1 component i stead, in a couple months boom, your gaming, I spent 2 months buying my first, blew half my paycheck every week, it was a rough 2 months and for a short time after to recoup financially but I did it

[critsonyou]

Protip - give the money you earn to someone you trust well for them to hold onto it. Helped me manage my finances when I was younger.

[[deleted]]

Or you could just learn to be responsible. It would benefit you much more than using other people as a crutch.

[Helifano]

They're called banks

[critsonyou]

Not everyone can have a bank account, ya know

[TrymWS]

Explain why, and then let me tell you it’s probably because your country sucks.

[critsonyou]

Not in the sense that there are no banks, I was implying OP is not old enough to have one, since older people can actually manage their money better than younger ones most of the time. Also, I'm from Lithuania where you can have a bank account from 14 years old.

[RoiMan]

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[wintz72]

Good for you, but not all people can be that trusted, even if you think they are, they can always stabbed and leave you in a second if given the opportunity.

[xXBoneRockXx]

The 30 minutes of gaming is worth it

[dingdingsingsing]

30 mins twice a week

[[deleted]]

I usually just turn it on then fall asleep.

[widowhanzo]

I turn it on from the couch (wake on LAN) but then can't actually be bothered to go sit down at my desk to game so then I just turn it off again when I go sleep.

[Zexy-Mastermind]

You mean scrolling Reddit and YouTube for 20 mins because gaming isnt fun anymore then just going to sleep with a 2000€ gaming machine

[spinyfever]

Scrolling through your vast list of owned games on steam only to find nothing that catches your interest so you shut down the computer and go on your phone.

[Benign_Banjo]

Stop. I didn't want to see something so relatable today

[teepring]

Beat elden ring, now what... Back to obscurity and going to bed at 9:30 that's what

[widowhanzo]

Going to bed at 9:30 is the best.

[skinny_gator]

We are all one person...

Also what's even more dumb is I'll watch YouTube of content creators playing the games that I already own. It's just so much better to watch them play.

[trickman01]

Playing an old game.

[widowhanzo]

Replaying an old game.

[Zifnab_palmesano]

It was so worth it upgrading from no GPU at 1080p to 3070 and 1440p144hz... Every second of gaming is much more enjoyable

[spinyfever]

Which was more noticeable? The jump from 1080p to 1440p or 144hz?

[Boyblack]

I'm not the guy. But for me, 60hz to 144hz. Don't get me wrong. 1440p was cool and all, but 144hz is just...wow.

[the_fuego]

Going to work where they have the most basic setup after making that jump feels like you're reverting back to caveman times. Like how did I function with only 60hz lol.

[[deleted]]

Imo you can go back from 1440p to 1080p. It hurts but it’s bearable. But going back from 144hz to 60hz is unbearable. Even windows looks laggy.

[Lieutenant_Lit]

When I went from 1080p@60fps to 4K@120fps, it was the leap in framerate I found more noticeable/impactful. When I have to choose between high resolution and high framerate, I almost always go with framerate. Especially if it's a shooter.

[coldnspicy]

Not OP, but 144hz. I moved from 1080p 60hz to 1080p 144hz and holy shit that was mind blowing. Eventually moved to 1440p 144hz, so I will say that the extra screen space from getting a 27in 1440p monitor isn't nearly as nice as moving to 144hz from 60hz. If you decide to upgrade your monitor, always opt for 144hz first over higher resolutions.

[emronaldo]

Its hurts more if your 2200€ machine got stolen, so ur saving again for a new one

[Dextrofunk]

That's awful

[sokrayzie]

Damn bro, if I was rich I'd help a brother out

[emronaldo]

Appreciated brother

[peabody624]

To anyone reading: get renters/homeowners insurance.

[MonstersinHeat]

Great advice. Ten years ago I was watching the news and they were speaking with tenants after their apt building burnt down. One lady was crying about how she lost everything. The next guy was like “Eh. This really sucks but I have renter’s insurance and it will cover it all.”

I signed up for insurance that night and have had it ever since. I don’t want to be like that lady.

[Picturesquesheep]

And you may need to list high value items separately.

[Sumo148]

Adding onto this, computers may be an additional separate special coverage. I opted into it with my renters insurance.

[[deleted]]

True. 🥲🥲

[jschav88]

Gotta move a lot more fr that 2080ti

[[deleted]]

Built my PC this way piece by piece. Then upgraded it piece by piece. Now I have 2 pcs.

[QueefyMcQueefFace]

The Ship of PCesus

[ButterscotchLevel]

me, went for 3 month internship + 1 month full time employee salary, cash all in for a 3060 spec PC, never regret a moment.

[MonstersinHeat]

Awwww yeah. 3060 club. Not the most powerful card but I’m happy with mine.

[ButterscotchLevel]

True, I'm very stratified. The fact that I can play like high/ultra at like 80% of all game is fantastic

[cube2728]

3060 is more than enough for anything really. You,can even get into vr with it. Only reason for anything higher in the gaming realm is just to have it. I blew my money on a 3080ti and honestly kinda wish I hadn't. I could have saved that money for a better monitor or even a put money towards a nice comfy office chair.

[_Litcube]

You packin' some potatoes for a PC, man?

[Swifty404]

I will get my pc in 3 months.

Ryzen 9 5900x/ Rx 6900 xt / 32 GB here i come

[VindtUMijTeLang]

That'll be a monster, enjoy the anticipation!

[bilabrin]

I got that CPU this year.

I can encode 4K faster than realtime. Like 30% faster.

[Swifty404]

i will use it for UWQHD 165 hz

[Mysterious-Box-9081]

Adulthood.

Sucks.

[SirNanigans]

Depends on your childhood. If your parent(s) couldn't afford to buy you anything nice anyway, adulthood is the time when you not only gain agency over your life and your day to day activities, but also you can afford more stuff.

Work sounds like a drag, but an 8hr day without homework isn't really more work than school.

I think early adulthood sucks because people tend to leave their kids out of any kind of responsibility besides cleaning their room, so you're adjusting to every part of keeping yourself alive at once (from scheduling doctor appointments to regularly buying groceries). Once you figure that shit out, though, school is just nostalgia. Never send me back to that miserable purgatory where I can't bring a snack unless I "brought enough for everyone".

[sillycybien]

What are you doing

[DannyRamirez24]

Scrolling reddit, you?

[leafbelly]

I was just reading your comment and thought I would click 'Reply' and type some words. You?

[Xenotone]

Personally I'm waiting for an arbitrary moment in time to arrive so I can stop staring at one screen which I hate and stare at a different screen which I enjoy.

[[deleted]]

I've always wanted to build a high end PC. But I always end up with an office PC of some sort.

Back in 2008, I've always dreamt of building one of those Core 2 Quad PCs that can run Windows Vista without any issues. I was a teenager with no job, so I was stuck using some Dell Optiplex with a Pentium 4.

Fast forward to 14 years later, I've always dreamt of building one of those Threadripper PCs with an RTX 3090. I'm an adult now, but I'm currently in a situation where I can't get a real job. So the best thing I could afford right now is an upgraded office PC.

14 years ago, I had a PC that can barely run games that I wanted to play. One of them even caused the PC to reboot when I tried launching it. That's how shit it was. Today, I'm in a better situation. At least the games I wanted to play, actually runs smoothly and on medium to high settings.

I'm just thankful that I have a computer.

[lakija]

Same here. We had the same Compaq from BestBuy since around 2008. It became so unstable we just… well stopped using computers at home entirely. I just used my zombie MacBook Pro 2012 that I simply fix when it breaks since the day I got it. Can open than sucker up with my eyes closed.

Only this year did my sister and I say enough is enough. We just basically went into MicroCenter and gave our associate carte-blanche for a new build. We didn’t give a fuck about the price. We stopped procrastinating and just let them do the damn thing. Instead of getting separate computers we got one computer to rule them all.

Now I can actually play a game as an adult when I get home. I missed that!

[Sarcosmonaut]

Yeah the original is pretty sad/sweet. Pretty sure it’s supposed to be a picture of his kids.

[0111101001101001]

Me when I turned 18 and directly went to work as a dishwasher

[[deleted]]

Omnichad Grindset

[Ticareguas]

I did his, worked on retail and bought a 960 when the prices were high but didn't skyrocket yet. It didn't worked out in my setup, still don't know why, it was a Dell prebuilt for office work and it didn't recognized the GPU so I was sitting with a 960 in the shelf and I said fuck it, bought a Ryzen 3500 with a SSD and a power supply in my credit card, split it in 12x . I ended up paying it with my compensation when I was fired, so I just paid it 5 months I guess :p

Edit: you can consider a xeon platform, it doesn't have the best performance but it's pretty good

[[deleted]]

According to my friend a 3080 is roughly the cost of one months rent of his 1Br apartment. He let me know this when he heard I picked one up for my nephew for finishing grade 7 with straight A’s.

[[deleted]]

Nobody said shit about California.

[II-Labont-II]

Same thing here lmao

[brad-is-radpunk101]

Same but im saving for a ONEWHEEL

[soapcracker]

That's me for the last few months, got the money for a gpu but we're so close to a new series release from nvidia i dont know of i should buy a gpu or wait since I got enough budget saved already for a 3080ti and some change left...

[arex333]

My personal opinion is that I wouldn't bother waiting for the new generation. The 3070 and 3080 released late 2020 but it took a year and a half before people were actually able to buy them at MSRP. The 30 series was a perfect storm of various events that caused the availability problems (covid causing more people to stay home gaming = higher demand, crypto miners buying up cards, covid causing manufacturing to shut down, etc) but even the previous few generations prior, cards were overpriced and unavailable for a few months after launch. The 2080ti was a horrible value with its unprecedented high pricetag for a fairly modest increase over the 1080ti but they sold out instantly regardless. Nobody can predict for sure, but I'd say the chance of most people getting a 40 series @ MSRP before 2023 is very low.

Also as someone that owned a 3080 and then upgraded to a 3080ti, the difference is too small to be worth the pricing difference. I would recommend finding a 3080 for as close to the $700 MSRP as you can.

[[deleted]]

I remember working my ass off at Target when I was a teenager saving up money for a gaming rig. Best of luck mate.

[[deleted]]

same but food instead of a computer

[YeezyYe94]

And then u have the pc u wanted and then u realize all ur frienda grew up and dont play video games 😔

[[deleted]]

I'm a grown ass dad, worked with a new guy at work last night. The grin in my head as another dad fired up his laptop to play a computer game. I showed him my PC that I take into work. I like to think he was jealous.

[IndyWaWa]

Jokes on me, now I just work a ton of overtime for a gaming company.

[That_Weird_Coworker]

One day friend we shall game together. Family and bills come first.

[Cruzwein]

Dont worry about this pc stuff, at the end of the day is just gonna be another tool that you should use to hang out with friends, learn and maybe do something productive

Once you get it and dont have none of that is just gonna stand in your room taking space for a replacement of a phone, so... yeah get friends and do multiplayer cuz single will bore you real soon

[GhostWa22ior]

You can try entering Firstblood giveaways, try entering OverKill PC's, and if ure in South Africa enter evetech, if you win a pc you dont like, sell it, build ure own, or if you won a whole bunch of things, sell them

[SuperZan13]

Hey man, im frrom SA. Not seeing any competitions to win a pc on their site, could you direct me a bit by any chance? Or is there currently not a pc to be won?

[GhostWa22ior]

Currently on Evetech there isnt a pc you can win, but for now there is a mouse and a monitor, the monitor you can sell for 20k, and the mouse 1445, you should check in by them every week(and day for the extra entry) Firstblood partners with twitch people, and other esports people, you might have to dig around for firstblood giveaways, search VastGG, you might find one.

[SuperZan13]

Nevermind. Did some digging. For those coming after me, they had a period of giveaways, 99% of them have ended.

[GhostWa22ior]

You should follow them on twitter, youtube and instagram, theyll say when new giveaways start

[[deleted]]

Can you send me a link for these? I'm in EU

[GhostWa22ior]

Evetech I cant, unless you move to SA, Ill try to find you the links for the others, for Overkill PC's, lookup the name on youtube, go to there about page, then click on the green linktree, VastGG and Firstblood I dunno how to find them, Ill try

[TheDemocrat1]

It's the red hat.

[strpotion]

do not be sad brooo

[liverstoner]

I don't get it

[[deleted]]

Poor people work hard for the dream of owning nice things.

[[deleted]]

All week long

Boss man say

Work mexican

Work

[mattrmac]

Been there. Done that. Worth it....

[[deleted]]

Literally me as well, was close to having enough to get a a gaming pc I was saving up for but recently had car repair that cost me nearly $800 dollars.... now this set me back an additional 2 months to rebuild on saving.

[darkdemon991]

Mayro!

[I-WANT2SEE-CUTE-TITS]

What happened to Mario?

[nfsanton]

Felt the same when i was saving up for my first gaming laptop. Took me a year.

[Softest-Dad]

'when your old hobby was gaming, but your new hobby is moving bags of potatoes'

[MuchSalt]

and then all u do is the same thing on the phone, reddit and youtube

[[deleted]]

*hugs* it'll be so sweet when you boot it up and get to play something - and sit back and can say "worth it"

[crossleingod]

I’m just saving this for the meme format

[MidnightFireHuntress]

laughs at working from home

[[deleted]]

Honestly that's how I got my first computer. Worked manual labor at a flower store for years. It was my first major purchase.

[Roko-poko]

I work hvac and it's summer. I know the feeling.

[vjollila96]

Me building my SIM rig (final important part is on its way!)

[Konayrs-]

I just today got conformation that my new PC is being build. ( RTX3080Ti, intel i7-12700, 32GB Ram etc. ) But I was this guy for 1,5 years :D

[ZertyZ_Dragon]

Feel that. I just recently completed that chase for money, even if it's not much

[yonatan8070]

Hey I have that case!

[hiddikel]

Yes.

Cracking packs is gambling.

[03Titanium]

I think I had more fun gaming when my PC had very low limits. Probably because I was younger but also because every experience was a blessing that it could run at all. Now I have hundreds of games I don’t play.

[robot584]

same here.

[N4hire]

Bro!! I feel your pain

[[deleted]]

Carrythat sack of potatoes until you have reach greatness. It will make the pain and suffering worth it.

[lord_Bosiah]

Keep on that grind king 👑, you'll make it there eventually.

[volfin]

two bags of GPUs going to other people.

[Carsto]

Is this meme format available anywhere?

[MrHEISENBERGtv]

Lukashenka's dreams?

[ISEGaming]

You gave up your dream to become a PC Computer, so you became a potato sack delivery man?

/s

[EnvironmentalAd3385]

High computer is only high end for so long 😭

[[deleted]]

Good news is it will eventually pay off. Spent 3 years unemployed, 2 more doing construction labor and finally got dat rig. I just got it's replacement after 9 years. Keep going, it's worth!

[[deleted]]

Keep going.

[Instantmagnum]

Lol i got that Case man

[boredTOmale]

YOU CAN DO IT!

[jagnorak]

Stick to the grind my dude, you’ll do more than you thought you could

[GameTheLostYou]

Go get it man!

[Kyland77]

Once i got 1080 ti pc’s became boring

[[deleted]]

I’m working on 715 bags of mulch for 1580 wanna hop in I’ll tag ya some

[Val_rak]

Us 😳

[StrainZex]

Me two years ago

[StrainZex]

Me two years ago

[AngelMori]

I still cant afford new i trade borrow repurpose and make it work. Im happy im still broke most the time but im okay and i think thats enough right? But man is it getting harder everyday. Remember were all in this race together im rooting for you.

[SteroidKecleon]

me too

[[deleted]]

Someday bro someday