While I didn't really plan to (or need to) replace my 2019 Ryzen we had a gaming laptop act up (again, actually), and so I decided it would be good to have a 2nd current-generation gaming PC again, so I bought one. Mostly because of "it has worked for years without problems", I gave up mine and ordered some parts to build a new one for myself. But of course that's not the only reason - I was also eager to get some new hardware and run Linux on it.
Ignoring the graphics card, the other one was 5 years and 3 months old, and not ignoring it 4 years and 2 months old. So not really a short time, but I still hadn't replaced it because of its age. For comparison the last upgrade cycle was 7.5 years (ignoring in-between upgrades)
- AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8x 3.80 GHz Socket AM5 WOF, 340 EUR
- MSI MAG Tomahawk WIFI AMD X870 So.AM5, 315 EUR
- Noctua NH-D15S CPU Cooler, 109 EUR
- 2x32GB Crucial Pro DDR5-5600 DIMM, 155 EUR
- 850W Seasonic Focus GX-850 Modular PSU, 155 EUR
- 2 TB WD Black SN850X M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 3D-NAND TLC, 147 EUR
- Fractal Design Torrent Compact, white, 136 EUR
- Sapphire Pure AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB GDDR6, 2x HDMI, 2x DP, 799 EUR
At 2156 EUR it was more expensive than I had hoped, but as the last one was cheaper than I had expected I'm not complaining.
Hardware I didn't replace:
- Logitech G710+ MX Brown
- Dell U2715H 27"
- some SSD I'd need to look up, the rest stayed in the old Ryzen rig
- HyperX Cloud Alpha Gaming Headset
Hardware I had replaced since 2019:
- Dell S2721DGF 27" (main screen) instead of the Samsung 27"
- Dell whatever 24" instead of the Samsung 24"
- Roccat Kone Aimo instead of the Kone EMP
So now that's 2 Ryzen 7 (one AM4, one AM5) and I'm getting rid of an i5-4460 from 2014, because it doesn't make sense to replace my home server's i5-3570K, but I'm stealing the 8GB of RAM which should fit. This will also retire the last spinning disk in regular use.
The one thing I'm a bit sad about is that I will get rid of the case the i5 is sitting in, I bought it in May 1998 for the first computer I would build for myself, a Pentium II-350 MHz. It's been spraypainted metallic blue (a Ford color) from a can that was left over from fixing the paint job on my first car, and has been in more or less continuous use for the last 27 years. Hooray for standards (ATX).
As an aside, before the 9070 XT arrived I tried the RX470 from 2016 in this new machine and I was surprised how well it held up.