Gururu ezst036 said: Where is new demand coming from? LOL that is a great question. Was just there a few months ago, wild place. Reply
Eximo End of Windows 10 might be part of it. But I suspect this is more about hitting a price point for their average customers who are used to bargain shopping used hardware. With more people who would normally buy new buying used, that would squeeze the availabilty of used hardware. Reply
artk2219 It wouldn't surprise me if part of the issue is that people are intercepting the machines before they reached the reseller. They would then strip the storage, ram, and maybe the gpu, resell it, dump the rest. Reply
alan.campbell99 Perhaps the ones not up to having 11 on them could live on as linux boxes. If they're still functional in that regard better they get use rather than get biffed. Reply
bit_user alan.campbell99 said: Perhaps the ones not up to having 11 on them could live on as linux boxes. If they're still functional in that regard better they get use rather than get biffed. Depends on how old. Also, what for. If you're just going to run a web browser on it, then that's going to need similar amounts of RAM and CPU power as on Windows. Also, I'd forget about anything that's still 32-bit, only. The 32-bit x86 kernel build and userspace are starting to suffer bit-rot. Reply
Jabberwocky79 "the awkward zone between vintage and modern…" Ah, yes, he is describing my i7-2700K system with 16GB of DDR3 and 1080Ti :geek:. The mobo is so old it doesn't even support addressable RGB or M.2 Reply
bit_user Jabberwocky79 said: "he is describing my i7-2700K system with 16GB of DDR3 and 1080Ti :geek:. I just upgraded from a i7-2600K, last year, but I used the iGPU to drive a 1440p monitor. The speed of the new machine is like night & day, even still using iGPU graphics. Luckily, I bought 64 GB of RAM for it, back in 2024. And I thought it was a poorly-timed purchase, way back then! Jabberwocky79 said: The mobo is so old it doesn't even support addressable RGB or M.2 My mobo supported Ivy Bridge and PCIe 3.0, but the Sandybridge desktop CPUs only supported PCIe 2.0. Reply
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