I just checked - March 2019 so 4.5 years
That's why I'm doing this exercise to see whether it is worth upgrading vs buying a new PC. My graphics card has failed, so I need to buy a new one anyway. I also want to get an SSD, now those have come down to a reasonable price for a high level of...
Yes, you definitely have a point there, in fact it is something I considered as I was putting it together. I guess I was just quite surprised with how little it costs to upgrade to 32GB when only a couple of years ago that was an expensive upgrade. I may well end up cutting it from the final spec.
Comments welcome on all aspects of the below
Uses - Home office, some light coding and gaming (but nothing too FPS demanding, I'm mainly into stuff like Rimworld, Civ VI, XCOM)
Budget - Max £1000
Monitors - 2 x 24" 60Hz, usually used at 1920x1080
Thoughts - Not 100% fixed on any of the below...
The reason I put 'Gaming' in quotation marks is because I don't really play the kind of games that are super hardware intensive (I play stuff like Civ VI, Rimworld, Hearthstone, XCOM2, Skyrim, WoW). In fact, until his point I have been using PCs with onboard graphics and have got by on that...
