Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. This is the final article in our PC Upgrade Reality Check series. Over the last few posts, we have covered: Now there is one question … Read more
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. We are near the end of our PC Upgrade Reality Check series. So far, we have talked about: Now we need to talk about the … Read more
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last post, we talked about slow PCs. More specifically: Your PC can feel slow even when the hardware is still completely fine. The … Read more
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last post, we talked about how long a gaming PC should actually last. The answer was not: “Until the internet gets bored.” It … Read more
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. This is the start of a short closing series for our PC upgrade chapter: PC Upgrade Reality Check. Not another round of: “Buy this GPU.” … Read more
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last post, we talked about PC upgrades under $100 that actually make sense. Small budget. Daily improvement. No marketing fireworks required. Now we … Read more
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last post, we talked about the upgrade anxiety cycle. Don’t upgrade because of anxiety. Good. Now let’s talk about upgrades that actually earn … Read more
Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last post, we talked about when an upgrade actually makes sense. Today we need to talk about the thing that makes people upgrade when it doesn’t. Upgrade anxiety. That little voice that shows up right after you build a PC, buy a GPU, install more RAM, or … Read more
Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last post, we talked about future-proofing. Or more accurately: How people turn a perfectly reasonable PC build into a financial incident by adding “just in case” to every part. Very efficient. Very expensive. Today we need to do something important. We need to admit something the internet … Read more
Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last post, we talked about the hidden cost of chasing Ultra settings. Because nothing says “smart PC ownership” like spending several hundred dollars so a puddle can look slightly more emotionally damaged. Today we move to one of the most overused phrases in PC hardware: Future-proof. The … Read more