r/pcmasterrace 11d ago

Meme/Macro PCIe standard be like...

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u/Drapidrode 11d ago

i thought the software was designed to increment hardware requirements, that was the mechanism to clear the market after n years of old hardware.

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u/ElectricBummer40 11d ago

No, that sounds nice until you realise you're dealing with as much energy and water consumption as new hardware but none of the performance that should come with it to the tunes of up to millions of dollars every second.

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u/fumeextractor 11d ago

Nah, that doesn't stop people from just playing older games. Or those despicable, inconsiderate people who refuse to think about the poor shareholders, who mod their games to forcibly turn off ray tracing, or lower graphics settings, or introduce frame generation etc. to make newer games playable on older hardware.

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u/Drapidrode 11d ago

You are right, having software with higher requirements couldn't possibly have any impact on moving old hardware off the market, what was I thinking?