You are smart enough to have built your new PC built before the prices are about to surge due to world war 3 right?

nothing ever happens

>>712509705
Oil prices are surging. Never a good sign.

im not only smart enough to have done that
but im also smart enough to have saved every component ive ever used for the last 20 years
many of my old parts are now worth more than when i bought them new, thanks to the retro computing fad

the status quo will not change and nothing will continue to ever happen

>>712509885
What's your oldest CPU?

>>712509392 (OP)
I bought a 4080 Super late last year because I knew Jewvidia would intentionally limit supply of the 50 cards.

>>712509837
Wow, it's almost at where it was 2 months ago!

>>712509392 (OP)
I built my pc when the 4090s went on a sale. Feels good. Too bad i don't actually enjoy vidya, and use my gpu for watching youtube and shitposting on here.

That bombing happened more than a month ago. You are only now receiving the intelligence through your media.

>>712510191
not even doing AI shit with that?

>>712510271
No, my depression is crippling and i can barely even pay attention to these posts. I some times have to re read things to understand completely.

>>712509989
my oldest is a pentium II mmx (233mhz) but i acquired that from a friend a long time ago
the oldest i personally used is an athlon thunderbird (the first 1ghz cpu from amd)

world war HUH?

>>712509957
the status quo needs to change, we need less people and we need to go back the era before the 90s.

just send all the zoomutts to die already

>>712510694
Nice. My oldest PC was a pentium II as well (It was my father's). I loved that PC when I was a little shit.

>>712509392 (OP)
Iran, Russia and China are all allies, WW3 started 3 years ago.

>>712509392 (OP)
Picked up this little guy a few weeks ago. I love it.
>>712509885
I used to build era accurate windows xp gaming computers on ebay. I didn't always turn a profit, but it was a fun little hobby. I always got great reviews.

>>712510394
Have you considered joining Scientology? They can help you get back to PT as well in ethics.

Why are most people like this?

>>712510394
Nigger you would probably be a degree less depressed if you didn't waste your money on shit like buying a fucking 4090 that you weren't intending to actually do anything with.

>>712510394
hope you find a cure for it.

>>712509392 (OP)
My pc of 5 years is getting slow. I want to do a fresh install of Windows 11 and clean every drive on my PC. I got too many viruses and I am crashing in games.

>>712509392 (OP)
>Devs will be forced to optimize their games again after the US preemptively nukes Taiwan (though China would get eaten by escalators and poisoned by their ration packs well before they could ever march into Taiwan)
>Can still play on my old 1080 11GB, don't have to scrounge around the ruins of TSMC foundries for irradiated silicon wafer fragments
Feels good.

>>712512782
>Have you considered setting your money on fire and volunteering to be beaten, gaslit and tortured by lunatics?
May as well join a Discord and your local church.

>>712516439
>I got too many viruses
How retarded must one be to get viruses in 2025?

>PRICES ARE GOING UP, YOU MUST BUY NOW, SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY RIGHT NOW
hmm... I wonder who could be behind such narrative

I warned everyone back in December that prices for components were about to spike again. Hope u like hyperinflation

but the 5090 is already way beyond msrp, wtf bros....

>>712509392 (OP)
Iran contributes fuck all to world trade. Only China invading Taiwan would trigger the next global conflict, that's how global trade would collapse. Russia's ambitions in Europe also has the potential spark, but it's harder to predict and more in the future implications territory.

>>712509392 (OP)
recently got myself a 5700X3D + 4070 SUPER, think ill be good for some time. what WW3? u mean Russia and Ukraine? they can fuck off and kill themselves

>>712519697
Israel started striking Iran's nuclear facilities. There is a distinct possibility that Iran might feel that if it is going to lose their nukes then they might as well drop them on their eternal foe.

>>712509392 (OP)
I built it when the orange man won but before he was sworn in

To play what?

>>712509392 (OP)
>buy before crypto boom
>buy before covid
>buy before russian sanctions
>buy before us tariffs
>buy before ww3
it's never good time to buy

>>712519837
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

>>712519892
on the contrary, the best time to buy was in the past but the second best time to buy is now.

>>712509705
fpbp

>>712519904
Correction: To play what that my 2015 machine doesn't already do?

>>712519820
Smart man. Blumpf making everything more expensive and it's not going to get cheaper

>>712519892
swan song of the poorfag

>>712519892
That just means it's always the best time to buy right now, anon. You're interpreting it wrong

>>712510908
doesn't matter what you think, nothing will happen

>>712519932
skyrim on steroids.

>WW3
every time this happens, Iran just lobs a bunch of dumb missiles in response that hit nothing and maybe injure 1, declare glorious victory, and NOTHING HAPPENS

>>712510908
>we need less people
All developed countries have poor birth rates. You'll have your wish in a few more decades.

If I knew how stressful it would be I would've bought prebuilt. Installing cpu cooler is the worst, it feels like you are doing something wrong and about to break the whole thing

>>712519795
>Israel started striking Iran's nuclear facilities
Surely I would have heard about this

>>712519975
So nothing.

>>712520020
Just get a CPU cooler which has thermal paste preapplied. Even a mongoloid can install that.

>>712520020
lol it's like 4 screws and 1 cable to plug in. 4chan retarded never ceases to amaze me lul

>>712520054
for you.

>>712509392 (OP)
i steal them instead

>>712521367
how?

>>712509392 (OP)
I have a 3060 12gb and an i5 6400k, if I can get more than 40fps in a game, it is not worth my time.

>>712509392 (OP)
I think my self built PC is over 7 years old now I hope it will continue working

I have an i5 8600k and a 1070 from 2019(?), would a i5 14400 and 4060 be a contemporary equivalent? I just want to be able to play modern games but I'm gonna be building a new rig from scratch basically so I'd rather get something solid going forward y'know?

>>712522274
at least upgrade your cpu

>>712523775
no

>>712509392 (OP)
Spent £900 on this last year

>i3-13100
>32GB DDR5
>msi b760 mobo
>4060
>500gb OS ssd
>2TB games ssd (wish I'd just got 2x 2tb now)

>>712523398
It will shit all over your old PC anon

>>712524291
I should hope so, I'm more so concerned how it compares to contemporary requirements and alternatives

>>712509705
fpbp

>>712524731
I got the 4060 because it was small and power/heat efficient for my small case. The idea of spending £5-7-900 on a graphics card is just insane to me. Most demanding game so far has been Expedition 33 and it does struggle at 4K, mostly medium settings. For everything else it's been great.

>>712524291
Not that anon but would a i5 12400f still be fine over a 14400 or is it a significant downgrade? Same gpu otherwise

>>712509705
This, except for prices surging. They never need a reason.

>>712525246
According to this you are losing 25% in performance but in games this will probably not make much difference. I have a i3-13100, the bottom bitch of that gen, and it's no problem at all, still way faster than the i7-6700 it replaced.

>>712509392 (OP)
bought my new rig in march last year, feeling pretty good right now.

>>712525434
Oh also the orange number is the multithread performance. Above that is single thread, which is only -7%. Most games are not taking any advantage of multithread, so is the more relevant metric.

If you are doing other intensive tasks regularly with the PC then you might lose out.

>>712525434
As long as I can play anything recent at 1080p and 60 or 30 fps i'm good. 1440p and 4k are a meme to me.

>>712509392 (OP)
Bought a 7800xt and 7800X3D recently. Feeling good. I am ready to weather the storm for 10 more years.

>>712525656
Oh yeah it'll do that easy. I'm only playing in 4K because I use the TV and a controller after sitting at a desk all day at work.

>>712525825
Alright nice then, thx

5060 and 4060 seem to selling for a similar price, what's up with that

>>712509392 (OP)
I was using a 980 TI until this year. Also you're fine that happened a month ago, and India measures border skirmishes by the month this is nothing new.

>>712526562
Performance is the same but 4060 uses less power/heat

>>712509392 (OP)
I am simply going to buy the overbuilt rigs of people who get sent to war and get killed by drones for cheap

>>712519795
honestly? i dont give a shit, fuck israel and fuck iran while we're at it.

>>712527808
Thanks. Is there any ebb and flow to the price of pc parts nowadays or should I just grab whatever I see now?

>>712509392 (OP)
I'm not american I'm fine.

>>712509705
correct

>>712509392 (OP)
https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/6DMWdb here's the ultimate 1080p build for the next few years, €1394.86, enjoy.

For the premium build you can have the Phantom Spirit cpu cooler instead, it's more futureproof if you want a more power hungry CPU down the line. The motherboard have wifi 6 so wifi and bluetooth will work on Win 10. You're welcome.

>>712529782
Thanks. My build is similar but with a better CPU, GPU and water cooling.

>>712509392 (OP)
Nah I got a gun instead so I can loot yours while pumping your mom

>>712529782
>€1394.86
>for 1080p
>in 2025
Are you stupid?

>>712529995
1080p isn't going anywhere

>>712529995
theres no need for anything else atm
its the best bang for buck, anything else needs much more $$$ for good performance, especially if youre into competitive multiplayer games and want high fps for a high refresh monitor

>>712529995
>he says, as he plays his 480p upscaled DLSS slop with his $2500 rig and 4K monitor

>>712530742
What're you talking about? DLSS scaled 4k is more accurate and sharper than 1080p.

>>712530843
1080p GODS dont settle for anything below 120fps and a 4K setup needs dlss+framegen to achieve it

Honestly speaking, how much would a new world war change things? Wars are terrible, but it's indisputable how useful they are in "resetting" the economy and even the status quo. Would we witness another economic boom with drastic changes in the every day life, or would we simply nuke each other to death?

>>712533165
Since the industrial age, wars have only made humanity more dysgenic with each one. Sending the fittest off to get minced by hyper-efficient weaponry is not in our best interests anymore.

>>712533165
I dont think we can base what suicide drone swarm 2025 would be like by basing our understanding on wars of the past, if things got really out-of-hand we could potentially doom our entire race

>>712533604
and by "race" i mean humans not just white people

>>712533165
I feel like it would improve things somewhat, just because people are itching for something, anything, to happen. For a time, it looked like Covid was the catalyst we needed to finally realize we just have one life and we are wasting it working 40 hours a day to pay man-made debts on a planet quickly rotting and burning inside out. Then the shock of the pandemic passed, and things are even worse than before. We definitely need a good wake up call, but >>712533604 is right, the reset you speak of could actually become the total ruin of the human race.

>>712509392 (OP)
>no decent RPG
>no RTS
>no Xcom 2 clones
>turn based strategy also near dead
I really couldn't give a shit about new soul faggot clone #499220, DooM but bing bing wahoo or tidal flood of chink games

when will something ever happen

>>712509705

>>712533604
Total war will never occur. The banks and corporations will never allow it and they control the countries more than the governments.

I still have some of my covid CP stash

I mean TP stash

>>712535794
sure

>>712509705
>>712519924
>>712525065
>>712529152
Wrong
Except for the CCP, holy fuck, are they pussies

>>712516439
Shit like malwarebytes/defender not picking up anything?

>>712520020
Literally why not pay your local hardware store 15 burgers to assemble it for you and after that if something goes wrong you have valid reason to call them due to previous established relations

I've been told it's like building with legos but I have never tried it, a friend of mine failed miserably and I don't want to fail

>>712509392 (OP)
yeah, I bought a 3080 and a 4070. I rarely play games anymore but it's good to have some options.

>>712509392 (OP)
How does ww3 even go? Considering that the loser can just start shooting thousands of nukes at any time, it seems like we're at a stalemate. At most there will be proxy wars, like with Ukraine.

>>712540974
a nuclear exchange would not be a boon for profits. So I'm assuming limited low yield devices would be used to localize kinectic altercations as much as possible. Even during WW3 there were areas of the planet that never saw any conflict, not a single bullet was fired and nobody died.

>>712539319
yeah it's really easy, especially with modern youtube videos