Neither am I, I don’t see it changing much in the next year or two.

Thank you, you get it.

And thanks for the advice

Very interesting, thank you!

I did consider that too, but I think I’d rather just swallow some of that price not to have to do this again any time soon.

I’m a contractor, and the 500 euro WFH budgets we get doesn’t even cover a decent screen.

My bottleneck is CPU, I spent about 15min compiling shaders while trying to launch Subnautica 2 last night, I often jump into new games with my friends and have to wait 10-20min compiling shaders while they are in within a minute.

I also have issues while trying to do complex things in Blender/Maya. More RAM isn’t the solution here.

Yup.

Yeah, I have to agree with you there, I think without actually side by side comparing, it’s really not something that one can notice.

I was indeed going to get an X3D chip, so it’s good to know that.

I did see this video which is very interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyr0qzZBfRc

I already upgraded my CPU, RAM and HDD to the best I could get for this board, unfortunately, I’m still running on 10 year old hardware (with an 8-9 y/o CPU).

I mean, yeah, that’s what’s going to happen.

My PSU isn’t powerful enough for a new CPU (and later on GPU upgrade) anyway.

As for the 2 PCs thing, it’s just too much of an inconvenience, I already merge to an extent work and pleasure because I have 3 screens on my PC, getting an expensive multi input KVM to switch between them isn’t really an option. KDE is deprecating X11, so xRDP won’t be an option in the future either.

I also don’t expect the 2080 to last, that is an upgradable component, I could put a 5090 in my PC right now, but I’m bottlenecked by my CPU.

Sorry, I made a typo in my original post, I meant to say 10 years, which changes things dramatically 😅

VS code and the rest of the BS JS applications really do chew through memory. Though the other day I realised that the Terraform linter in VS Code for Linux has a memory leak.

I saw something about that, that they struggle with large memory sticks, does it slow down overall performance?

It’s tided me over pretty well for the last 40 years, I’ve had 3 PC’s for the last ~23 years.

I usually buy the best I can within budget, with upgradability in mind, I upgraded my CPU, GPU and RAM on my current PC.

I was also thinking that, do you think it’s still worth it if the cost/gb is reasonably higher?

Just realised I typoed, it’s 10 years, not 20, sorry. I updated the post with my specs

If I buy something I want to buy the best I can afford to last me for the next 10 years at least. I don’t often spend money on my PC.

Currently it’s an i7 7700k, 32gb ddr4, 2080ti.

Im looking for a proper workstation, I spend 70% of my time on my PC.

Edit: just realised I typoed, it’s 10 years, not 20, sorry.

I’m sitting at around 90% utilisation constantly on 32 and FF keeps crashing because I’m out of memory.

I work in the tech field, so it’s sometimes docker, lots of CAD, games (often with said cad program and browser in the background)

Edit: just realised I typoed, it’s 10 years, not 20, sorry.