I can give you my address if you likeI know the feeling, have a 7800x3d / RTX 4900 pc sat here not used in months, thinking do I really need it
I am getting old, or boring, or both
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My birthday is 3 weeks tomorrowI know the feeling, have a 7800x3d / RTX 4900 pc sat here not used in months, thinking do I really need it
Yet Another milestone one
Marking the end of yet another decade of my time
Upon this earth
Feel free to make my day
Or even make my decade
It's not that he no longer enjoys it, it's just that he no longer feels that excitement factor. Like 'cant wait to upgrade my pentium 4 to a Core 2 Duo' or upgrading your ram from 256mb to 2gb. The magic has gone.This could certainly be one cause.
I always remember this meme:
I really enjoy the specifying, shortlisting, buying and building of PCs (see sig) but when it's finished one can feel a bit empty, the "what do I do with it now!" comes to mind. Thankfully it's not long before a particular game comes along that hooks me and justifies the time and cost.
To the OP, I think you've done the right thing by realising that you no longer enjoy it, just don't beat yourself up about it. Move on to something else. Your desire for computer games may come back or it may not.
*I remember upgrading from a HD2400 to a 8600gt and enabling shadows on the first mission on cod4. That was a truly mind blown moment. That's when the upgrade itch began. Memories like that only happens once in a while. Now we're older, we've basically seen it all.
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Get in line pal!My birthday is 3 weeks tomorrow
Yet Another milestone one
Marking the end of yet another decade of my time
Upon this earth
Feel free to make my day
Or even make my decade
Soldato
Although I have a gaming PC, I also have two PC's that are for media, NAS functions and backups. Each PC has a TV as a monitor. They used to be older generation gaming PC's. With electricity and component prices, I built two new machines. Low power, PC's with no graphics card. They use about 1/3 the power yet can manage the necessary tasks with ease. Crazy thing is that they didn't cost much either. Selling the old gaming components on eBay supplied enough cash to buy the components for the new ones.
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Being a PC enthusiast is getting so expensive, i certainly don't upgrade and tinker with my PC like i used to which i started in 1999-2000 ish. Next gen Consoles have caught up a tad and the plug and play is very convenient for me, Of course only the PC can still deliver 4K and RT above 60FPS.
I for a similar point this year, to break it down
* was a semi pro gamer in my early years
* I created pcs for myself and friends
* done water cooling, tried liquid nitrogen
* I used to buy a new pc pretty much yearly
* if I could tweak something I did
* got my pc to sub <20Dba
* git my pc in top 5 of fastest rigs on various forums
I realised, my gaming went from
95% gaming
5% tweaking
to
95% tweaking
2% gaming
3% wasting time on Amazon/doom scrolling
Felt like I was working 24/7.
I unplugged my pc 5900/7900xtx
If I could tweak something I had too it’s addiction one day I’d want super quiet next day I want as many fps as possible I was chasing numbers
Got up to 240fps on some of my favourite games at 1440p uw
Also bought a new monitor every year I got 6 oled monitors now…
Bought a PS5, bought 20 odd games that are not on pc or coming later to pc bought ps5 premium
Bought a m3 MacBook Pro with 14c/18GB RAM
Last 3 months I’ve been
99% gaming
1% on MacBook doing what I need
Not looking back, looking to sell my pc to work people maybe or just cut it uff as big lose moved my Xbox series X next to my ps5 bought a year if game pass
Looking to face fun! Other great thing is how relaxing it is to not have windows annoyances and everything to just work
Last 3 months I’ve completed 5 games more games than a few years on pc
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I agree, I was never heavily into games, but I was big into ITX, before it became a popular thing, the challenge for me was build it small and make it cool, literally. I was happily spending 300+ on a high quality ITX case, and the premium for the components, then tinker with custom fans, cables, and clocks to optimise the build.
Then Apple comes along with the M1, and completely blows anything small in the PC world out of the water.... both size and price wise... amazingly... (Think M1/2 Mac Mini...especially a refurb). Yes I know you can't upgrade it, but you don't need to for 5+ years... The PC build / enthusiast was never cheap (and was, is an annual cycle), but it was 'affordable' - too a point. Now though I can't say that, I think prices have generally doubled or tripled for key components, CPU's, GPU's & Motherboards... yes some would say performance has too, but in the past it was always 20% more for the same price, if you waited a month or 2 after launch.
As you say, I actually finish games on the Xbox, I don't think I ever did on the PC, always spent half my time tweaking the settings to get the extra FPS or graphics fidelity with a new upgrade etc... or reinstall to get it working with the new upgrade.
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Sounds to me like you just have no interest either. Macs to my knowledge don't offer Windows compatibility and therefore limited customising, the thing you liked. Your challenge is no longer there, and what's left is going to cost you extra.
I wanted to in recent years make a system that had 5" bays filled (which i'd use) in a smallish system. But hardware and Windows isn't of any better quality in recent years, in fact i'd argue it's of overall lesser quality. Windows update continues to break or undo my systems, and i'm a casual. Hardware consistently giving me issues... I've currently got a multiple boot beep that sometimes happens out of nowhere now, and today Vegas vid editor decides its broken. On a reasonably fresh machine.
Burnt out, not bored, i suspect is the reason for many being unhappy. And at no fault of their own.