Why Upgrading a Gaming PC Right Now is Almost Pointless
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What if you want to upgrade an existing gaming PC? What are the options, and do they make sense? The big problem is that current-gen AMD and...

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I’m halfway through a 10 year cycle, with a 1060 3Gb on a 7th Gen i5. It’s mostly Civ6, Stellaris, and Rocksmith 2014 @ 1080p so it’s fine. The main problem is end-of-life for Windows 10 without support in the current hardware, and Rocksmith doesn’t work well on Linux. I’ll probably keep it as-is and start from scratch… when I see a title that I want to play enough to drop big cash on hardware.

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Clone hero works on Linux, not sure if that’s the same type of game since I’m just guessing rock smith is like rock band. https://clonehero.net/

Rocksmith uses a real guitar and purports to teach you how to play… Not really like Rock band.

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