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Getting another box would still be the equivalent of doing a clean install + any massive amount of SW that you currently have… would be the equivalent of buying a new house because the old one was dirty & cluttered.
It’s funny - when I wrote that, I thought that’s what someone might say.
The difference is - if I buy a new rig, I still have the old one running to get work (not BMS) done.
I’m still going to get a new rig. Even though my current one runs BMS great, It’s a "reconditioned’ PC that I’ve had since 2016.
Don’t wanna push my luck.
IMHO, all PC owners should also be laptop owners - in the event that the PC goes down, the laptop exists to google and troubleshoot, pull backup files from your cloud backup folders and continue work as needed, and possibly even plugging the monitor into the laptop, as well as the keyboard and mouse, to use the same user interface while the PC is down. Doesn’t need to be anything expensive, unless your work involves photo/video editing & rendering.
I can relate to gaming on a budget, took years to save up for the gear I have now. I had found a cheap “reconditioned” laptop many years ago to serve a backup computer purpose, until I replaced it with a more powerful lappy that can play simple games at low quality with a dedicated Nvidia GPU chip inside - 7 years later, still reeling from the price of that new “gaming” laptop, but I still have it and it still works great.
Best wishes and good luck to you!
Yeah I agree about having a laptop. Although they kind of bug me in that pretty much all laptops run on the hot side - it’s an engineering problem that never seems to get truly solved, just made to work good enough.
Reconditioned can be a great way to go - I’ve got a place near me that sells reconditions PCs and laptops. That’s where I got this PC. Five years ago, I picked this up for $500 - I7 “Sandy Bridge” CPU, big power supply, 24 gigs of RAM. Had 2 “OK” GPUs running in SLI which gave me nothing but trouble so I picked up a GTX-1050TI a couple of years ago.
The thing I like about reconditioned (besides the value) is the install is clean - no gifted “crapware”. Cabling is immacualte.
Runs BMS without blinking.