• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I am desperately hoping the capacitors on my 16-year-old motherboard continue to hold out.

    please don’t give me new financial nightmares. I’m already poor.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      (In reality, I have another AM4 motherboard I could use in a pinch. It would just be inconvenient because it’s micro-ATX instead of mini-ITX and I’d have to shift my home server to something even older.)

      (Also, motherboards are the one component that isn’t really going up in price.)

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        1 month ago

        ok. but my financial nightmares. I have this laptop and can’t afford something new. I wanted to pay for a deposit for a house before the tech industry collapsed.

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          1 month ago

          You can get laptops for under £200 at CEX here. Sometimes under £100. They will still run UT1999 at 60FPS. Probably 144FPS if it supports outputting that high over what ever port it has for an external display.

          We are going retro!