After memory and SSD prices surged due to the AI boom, power supplies and CPU cooling solutions now appear to be next in line for price increases, per the latest news from China.
  • MOARbid1@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    At this rate, my PC will be in service into the 2030’s. Crazy considering I built it like 8 years ago.

    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Who knows what technology will bring us in 5 years. With SSDs, 15 year old machines are still functional for about everything but gaming.

        • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Please send me some ideas! Free titles are better since I don’t have a library of older games. I was able to get Minecraft to a playable state, but Hollow Knight couldn’t do more than 4fps. I though Neverwinter might work since it was pretty old, but I only managed what appeared to be 1/4 fps. I’m running tests on a core 2 machine with an ATI Radeon HD4250, Fedora on a SSD, 6 GB of DDR 2.

          The purpose is to spread the information to people who might be struggling with win 10 or older computers that can’t upgrade. I’m offering the Linux upgrade for $10 plus the cost of a SSD. I’m only posting to my Facebook crowd because I can’t do much for people who aren’t close.

          I will gladly post on Lemmy if I keep going. We have until the test computer is sold. Then I am moving on to the pile of Optiplex 9010 computers I bought for testing.