The most common PC upgrade panic might not be a real problem. Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last post, I said your PC might not be obsolete. Your expectations may have changed. Or, more likely, they may have been changed for you by benchmarks, thumbnails, spec sheets, and the usual internet choir … Read more
Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last few posts, I talked about my own PC and the RX 6700 XT that powers it. But those articles were never really about one CPU or one graphics card. They were about something bigger. Maybe your PC is not obsolete. Maybe your expectations changed. Or more … Read more
Welcome to Upgrade or Skip. A place built around one very suspicious question: Does this actually need upgrading, or is somebody just trying to sell me something? Because according to the internet, everything is dying. Your phone is too old. Your GPU is too weak. Your keyboard isn’t “endgame.” Your browser isn’t optimized. Your charger … Read more
Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the first post, I said this entire site started with one suspicious little question: Does this actually need upgrading, or is somebody just trying to sell me something? Before I start judging everyone else’s hardware, it’s only fair to put my own PC on trial first. My daily … Read more
Five years later, AMD’s mid-range survivor is still making upgrade marketing uncomfortable. Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. In the last post, I talked about my own supposedly obsolete PC: an Intel i5-12490F paired with a Radeon RX 6700 XT. That article was about the whole machine. This one is about the part that makes … Read more