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So we're going to have some spare money to use (probably) if our tax refund is the same as last year (it should be)
We'll put a bunch of it into savings of course but also:
Would it be more worth it to
- buy a valve index, or
- upgrade our computer from a 2200G to a 3600, get 16 GB more RAM (for a total of 32 GB), and get a nice ultrawide monitor to replace the cheap 16:9 one we have now?
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@Felthry rrh, this is tough. the PC upgrade is more pragmatic, and will help future-proof the machine, but it's likely that there will continue to be good VR games being released, not to mention any affirming applications it can have.
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@windyorigami depending on the exact amount we get, it *might* be possible to at least upgrade the PC's cpu and also get an index? Not certain of that. Would have to drop the RAM and monitor upgrades though
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@Felthry hmm. you could probably drop the display upgrade, as it has no real effect on performance. are the programs you tend to run more CPU or RAM intensive?
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@windyorigami I think they're generally more CPU limited; 16 GB of RAM is enough for most things I think? it's particularly slow as DDR4 goes but RAM speed doesn't really have that big an impact
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@Felthry *nods* honestly, whether to go all out on either or do the compromise is up to you. sorry.
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@windyorigami yeah, I know. I guess we need to figure out how much our budget is first though
