PC Brethren, Show Me The POWAH (Summer 2023 Edition)

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Serious_frusting said:

Stopped upgrading my PC not long after the PS4 come out.
Was gonna build a new one last year but decided against it. Apart from the nerd in me tingling when I get new PC stuff I don't see the point. No game in my opinion takes advantage of the hardware enough for me to even bother.

Not the thread for console chest-beating mate.

shikamaru317 said:

It was a budget build I did in 2015, that is well below the minimum requirements for games now, and is becoming too slow even for general use like web browsing. It has:

• Gen 4 i3 CPU
• GTX 950 GPU
• 8 GB of DDR3
• 1 TB 7200 RPM hard drive 

Flick that 1TB spinning rust drive out and drop a cheap SSD into it, it would be a brilliant web browsing machine.

I still have a Core 2 Quad PC sitting around from 2007 and it handles the web brilliantly with it's tiny 16GB Ram and Geforce 1030. - Definitely struggles on new AAA games, but it can still hold it's own.

I also have an Athlon 2000+, 512MB SD RAM (Precursor to DDR 1 Ram), Radeon 9550+3DFX Voodoo 2 running Windows 98 as well... Like to have a machine for every "era".

Doesn't matter if you don't have the latest and greatest or the high-end, majority of us don't, just a pic, some specs and having some fun gaming is all that matters.