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AMD is resurrecting a 4-year-old CPU, and it exposes some uncomfortable truths about the PC industry
(www.xda-developers.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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My ship of Theseus PC is a hilarious combo right now: an i7-7700k paired with a 6900 XT. And it's going to stay that way until something dies. I refuse to participate in this market, no matter what special edition bullshit comes out.
Similar situation here. R5 5600X, RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4, and absolutely no incentive to upgrade. I wouldn't give a shit to upgrade even if we lived in a pre-AI, pre-COVID scalping market and everything was priced fairly like it was in the GTX 10-series days. But I certainly will not be paying $700 for a fucking M.2 drive or RAM kit. Fuck alllllll the way off.
I'm the same but with a 9070XT. The newer GPU is for driver compatibility or I'd still have a 3060ti.
Nice. For me it's an i7 7700k with 1080 ti that i upgraded a few years ago to n 8700k with a 2080 ti. Owned it since 2017 and it's rock solid snd good enough.