I'd already given up the idea of building a new gaming PC, for cost reasons (and we all know who is to blame for that!).

Now i've also given up on the idea of buying a refurbished gaming laptop for my daughter, for the same reasons/ Even refurbished mid range laptops are over a grand.

The original idea was to build myself a new rig and give my current one to my daughter, after giving it some new fans and paste.

Looks like we're both going to have to make do with what we have but i'm worried my PC is reaching the end of its life.

This is where the Marvellous Minds of Mastadon come in!

The following is a list of thing's I can do (hardware wise) to extend my PC's life, to prevent breakdown and continue to be able to run games on decent graphics. If I am missing anything please let me know!

Adjust fan curves (currently set to reach 100% at 65c).
Replace fans.
Re-do paste and clean it of dust etc regularly currently approx every 6 months)

If it helps, I built this around 5 years ago and these are the basic specs;

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
32 GB RAM

Any tips greatly appreciated though I may have follow up questions :)

#GamingPC #PC #Hardware

RE: https://mstdn.jp/@boilingsteam/117578850935475830

What if we went back to true custom- and purpose-built hardware for consoles? Pre-everything-is-a-locked-down-PC, consoles had hardware dedicated just for the things games demanded, and handled those exact things in hardware at super-speed. With steam machines now, why bother with a console at all?

Make consoles great again!

#playstation #xbox #pc #steam #oldmanyellsatcloud

Yeah, why not rent all of our compute! We've never tried that before, I'm sure it'll go great.

#pc #openai #localcomputing

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