Amid memory price hikes, is it reliable to buy a decade-old antique computer as your main machine?
Affected by rising storage prices, new PCs are expensive, and some users are turning to second-hand antique computers costing a few hundred yuan, such as builds with an E3 1230 V2, GTX 730 2GB, and 8GB DDR3 memory. These machines do not support the AVX2 instruction set or H.265 and AV1 hardware decoding, cannot be upgraded to Windows 11, and can only handle light office work, old games, and NAS tinkering. Leitech believes that future budget PCs will split into two forms: mini PCs and a combination of local and cloud.
Affected by rising storage prices, new PCs are expensive, and some users are turning to second-hand antique computers costing a few hundred yuan, such as builds with an E3 1230 V2, GTX 730 2GB, and 8GB DDR3 memory. These machines do not support the AVX2 instruction set or H.265 and AV1 hardware decoding, cannot be upgraded to Windows 11, and can only handle light office work, old games, and NAS tinkering. Leitech believes that future budget PCs will split into two forms: mini PCs and a combinati
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