End of an era.

I finally have a new PC. Almost everything except the PSU (which luckily is doing well) is something new, and it really has been a long time since a proper upgrade. My first motherboard for this CPU died a long time ago, I had an old HDD fail me years ago, and most tragically my GPU died and I had to use a cheap, low-end OEM replacement. The part that lasted me the longest was my CPU and I’m really thankful it served me so long. It wasn’t going to handle new titles, but it still held on in less demanding games and I could still browse the web fine. I bought it in 2012 and I did not expect a mid-tier part to still be quite usable ten years later in 2022.

Small comparison:

Hardware	Old	New
CPU	Phenom II X4 960T	Ryzen 5 5600X
Motherboard	Asus M5A97 LE R2.0	Asus PRIME B450M-A II
RAM	16GB DDR3 @1333Mhz	16 GB DDR4 @3200Mhz
SSD	N/A	WD Blue SN570 M.2 NVMe 500GB
HDD	WD Green 1TB	WD Blue 2TB
GPU	GT 630 2GB DDR3 (downgrade from Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 1GB that died earlier)	Sapphire PULSE RX 6600 8GB

I’d like to think I’m not too demanding, so this one should last me for quite some time, especially since 1920x1200 is already large enough to me and 4K still seems so alien and far away to me. For now, I’m just thinking of the present. Among other things, it’s about time I gave Doom 2016 a proper go.