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PC/Components Acquiring Pilee!!DBzSdn79YU 30/06/25 23:13:44 No.1 [Reply]

For a while I have been intending to upgrade or get a new PC. It is quite a lot of things to handle and get comfortable with but my main issue is honestly how to even budget in 2025 and to acquire components that arent high end (whilst ignoring the techbros that insist and only list the high end when doing research)

So how does anyone else acquire their components?
factory sealed or used?
old or new?
Do you look into the next 5 years?
Do you buy power that you just don't need?

grafo!!3gbBmYklrg 11/07/25 21:08:56 No.2

>>1
The last thing I bought is the laptop I'm using right now. I got it refurbished and it's working perfectly. I think, unless you are really into gaming, any computer nowadays is good enough pretty much for everything

nixx!!cSE1YBc65A 13/07/25 19:48:37 No.3

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I think there's only a need to buy high-end hardware if you have high-end purposes. Middle of the range is perfectly sufficient for most people.

It used to be the case your hardware would be obsolete within a few years, these days it seems to improve far more slowly. RIP Murphy's Law. I guess that's to do with the minimum size of circuitry, quantum mechanics stuff.

If I can take care of it, I'm sure my navi will be good for a long time.

>old or new?
Always second-hand personally, as long as there's nothing visibly wrong with it. Paying the new hardware premium doesn't make much difference, usually.

>>2
Yeah pretty much, a few years ago I was very comfortable on a Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of DDR2 RAM. What I have now feels like more than I need.