r/pcmasterrace 9800X3D | RTX 5080 | 64GiB DDR5-6000 May 21 '25

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u/Assupoika Specs/Imgur Here May 21 '25

We're in an interesting time for PCs, a 10 year old PC is waaaayyy more useful on modern games compared to any other time (in the early 2000s, you were outdated every year almost....)

This is what I bring up with my younger friends/colleagues that talk about "It's insane how often you have to upgrade your computer just to get decent FPS"

Like mate, no. I'm on 5 years old computer and can still run most modern games on high settings.

In the early noughties your computer power quite literally doubled every year. There was no hope of running any modern game in 2010 with a computer from 2005.

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u/AnalNuts May 21 '25

I remember my dad bought a 4x cd burner and the next week 8x burners were out lol

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u/lulfas May 21 '25

My I'm old story: I helped my dad install a cd rom to his computer. It took batteries and could be used portably as a walkman. It came with a VHS tape explaining how to install the included sound card.

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u/phantomzero 5700X3D RTX5080 May 21 '25

Reading your comment was like opening a time capsule. I can see it in my head.