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Originally Posted by Joel Hruska
For decades, a desktop PC purchased for $2000 would be selling for $500 inside of two years. The combination of Moore’s law and Dennard scaling drove microprocessor performance rapidly skyward and companies like Microsoft and Adobe pumped out new products to consume CPU cycles nearly as fast as Intel and AMD could boost them. That ended in 2005, but the arrival of multi-core CPUs, clever scheduling on Intel’s part, and sheer inertia kept the idea current.
For decades, a desktop PC purchased for $2000 would be selling for $500 inside of two years. The combination of Moore’s law and Dennard scaling drove microprocessor performance rapidly skyward and companies like Microsoft and Adobe pumped out new products to consume CPU cycles nearly as fast as Intel and AMD could boost them. That ended in 2005, but the arrival of multi-core CPUs, clever scheduling on Intel’s part, and sheer inertia kept the idea current.
PC obsolescence is obsolete
My computer was built almost 4 years ago, with mid-range parts, and I still run the latest games, most of the time with maxed out graphics, just fine. It's too bad we no longer have the huge performance jumps that are must have.
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I'm still pretty happy with my current build i mean i can still play the latest games with reasonable settings that works for me 
