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Yeah that's what I'm thinking, although tech is a "depreciating asset", the work I can do with it is (potentially) valuable. I have a decent fleet of computers at the moment, old laptops with Linux, an old server, and my and my wife's main rigs.
Thing is I'm a 3D artist, so I wonder if even the current setup I'm blessed with could see me behind the curve in a few years time :(.
I skimmed the thread to try and see if you mentioned any specs of your current machine, but didn't find any.
If you are looking to build a new machine before the tariffs hit, there are two ways of doing it.
Go bleeding edge now or get a decent machine that you can upgrade further later.
I tend to go for the latter, as an IT guy I value stability of older components over the bleeding edge any day.
I built my computer back in August 2021, it has a Ryzen 5600x CPU Kingston DDR4 ram, a Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD for booting and a B550 motherboard to tie it all together.
It is a solid machine and I picked components that had been out for a year or so to try and get passed the most bugs snd lower the cost.
This is not the build I would recommend you, you should look into the current AM5 CPUs, Intel has had some reliabillity issues with the latest gen chips, so I'd go AMD at this point. The AM5 plattform supports the new DDR5 memory standard which will enable you to keep upgrading for longer.
Hey friend! Yeah I forgot that. I added it to the original post but here it is:
OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Mobo: Z590 Aorus Elite AX CPU: i7-10700k @ 5.1 Ghz GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090 Mem: 32GB DDR4 (forget the speed...3000?)
I don't wanna sound desperate or anything because I know I'm blessed here. I only upgrade like once every 5+ years.
Prospectively I'm not looking at a brand new build, just a CPU/RAM/Mobo to maybe move to DDR5.
The current setup (minus the GPU) would be moved over to my server which is still running like...an i5-4460 on 16GB of DDR3. Not terrible but it's had to thrash on occasion. ๐ฌ Haha.
Thanks for the heads up about Intel stability issues! I'll have to keep an eye out about AM5s.
I probably can't justify it before everything hits the fan, but y'know, it's good to keep my eyes out. :)