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Haven't been that active in the PC world for a few years now. Who's still around, what's new, pretty much anything I guess? I've popped in once or twice over the last while but nothing serious.

Last computer I built was Covid time Jan 2021. I mostly stopped gaming about 2 years ago just to try to get my life back on track after a bunch of different things and developing a mmo addiction in 2021-2023. Just play games on my phone mostly now as y PC gets dusty sitting in a corner with no internet hooked up even.

Reddit and discord definitely replaced (for the most part) forums like this one for me. There is something I still love about the way forums keep information a bit more "static" compared to the chaos of live chat in discord or fast cycle of reddit posts.

Been surprised how resilient work was in 2025 with all the crazy changes to the global economy happening. The reality of the last year was work was solid and just as good as the year before.
 
Computer wise...

AI workloads have caused GPU prices to raise even more, ram even more so and even some SSDs and HDDs into oblivion. Ram kits some of them litterally 4x more expensive than they would have been in september.

Lots of issues with the new GPU power connector due to design tolerances being way to tight compared to the real world.

NewEgg / EK exposed for scamming people and generally not being upstanding companies.
 
Do you like repetition. Because what's new is everyone saying "AI" every second word.

Honestly the worst time for the hobby, worse than the mining craze, worse than covid.

On the upside AMD makes great CPUs again and cases are better.
 
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Yeah, first it was mining, then it was covid + mining, then it was AI, now it's wasteful AI. I still get some of that news about what you can't buy because one market force or another has it in short supply or high demand. Don't even get me started on how much a waste of capital this race for AI market share is. How much of the world's compute is going into making free AI that people use to do an internet search, ask pointless questions, or make pictures/videos nobody should ever see?
 
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Marzipan said:
if you have a PC from 2021, it should still be a very solid rig. let us know it's specs as it likely would benefit from a few tweaks and bring it back to life.
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Oh yeah, I'm not doing anything with it at the moment that I feel any need to upgrade. Mostly just curious about the tech that is now more common place that back then was a bit of a premium/luxury item.

If I was to upgrade my rig anytime soon, it would just be a used 5600x3d CPU as I can put that in my mobo (B450-F). I am curious what's advanced in the NVMe space. I'm still just using SATA based SSD storage. Don't know if there is anything else new other than ticking up the # on the GPU model, RAM, and CPUs.
 
Was QLC a thing 3 years ago? Other than that, just faster PCI-E lanes and slightly higher density. Right now no one can really afford NVME or any storage. If I didn't just land a job around Black Friday, I would of pick up more than 1x 2TB drive. I really hope the AI bubble deflates because then we get a surplus of wafers but that may end up taking down the entire economy. Something got to give because no one is making money in LLM and OpenAI's debt payment are due before a lot of the datacenters are finish construction, and I'm not even counting the power needed to power them.
 
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It feels like the current AI spending is a huge waste of capital and productivity. AI in general is a very important technological advancement... but for now the real good AI is not the generative LLM chatbots. It's all the stuff that is being designed for specific targeted uses and not these mass market chatbots.

What does QLC stand for?
 
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