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Help me justify upgrading my pc (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a B450 motherboard, 16gb DDR4 3200 RAM, 1660 Super gpu and a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU. I don't plan on updating the GPU this time, because I don't play a lot of games that require anything more, I'm playing a lot of older titles currently. The problem is this also makes me feel like I shouldn't update the pc at all.

I think I mostly just want to mess around with a decent home lab, but because I dont have an intended use case I'm struggling to justify. I also had parents who don't like to spend money on this sort of thing and I've got their disapproving voices in my head.

The plan is to upgrade to a 5900XT and 64 gb of ram and probably run a lot of virtual machines in a little lab environment but I'm not sure how often I'll have them all running so it could be overkill. The upgrade is about $700 all up too so not small but not too much. I know I'm extending the lifespan of a computer instead of e-wasting the entire thing but I'm still a little apprehensive.

Good idea or nah?

P.S. I run Linux Mint on all my machines if that somehow changes anyone's mind or is somewhat helpful? Can't let the arch users be the only ones to announce.

Edit: thanks for the replies. I went to bed so I'll try to reply to people as today goes. Thanks for the ideas and the one person who asked if I was a sex worker, you've made me laugh and think.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Don't, just get a refurb mini PC. I got one with space for a m.2 drive and a sata SSD 2’5 inch. If you need bigger storage use an external drive for storage and the m.2 for the VM's.

I bought this one, upgraded storage to m.2 2TB and ram to 32GB and was done for almost 300€. Runs pihole, home assistant, music assistant, docker, jellyfin and other stuff without a problem. It is file serving sample library's for my home studio too.