How often do you upgrade your PC?

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Is it me, or did PC gaming used to move faster? In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a graphics card could feel outdated within a year, and major platform jumps arrived so often that upgrading became part of the hobby. Today, things are different.

According to a recent PC Gamer reader survey, 47% of respondents said they wait at least five years before upgrading their PCs, while only a tiny minority start thinking about the next upgrade almost immediately after finishing a build.

That shift makes sense. You could argue modern CPUs and GPUs "last longer" than they used to, or at least that many gamers are still perfectly happy running hardware from several generations ago because it's good enough for most tasks and games. Rising component prices have also changed...

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