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[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

I generally like to aim for 5-7 years and then build for an "upper/mid" range trying to keep it below $1500 with a GPU update in the middle of the timeframe.

I got insanely lucky and decided to rebuild just before the ram crisis, so I'm set with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 64GB ddr5 ram, and a 4070ti. I really really really wish graphics cards weren't so damn expensive... I hate being vram starved so often but with the way things are now I'm probably skipping my mid timeframe GPU upgrade :/