PC gaming isn’t governed by universal logic. We build a new PC to meet Ark: Survival Evolved’s demands, and then spend a hundred hours playing Vampire Survivors on it instead. We wear RGB headsets and then sit there, not seeing the RGB lighting. And we pressure ourselves to buy a new GPU every 17 minutes while other elements of our gaming setup like the monitor we took from work in 2012 soldier on.
All of which is to say, there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to upgrading. Usually it takes a new game’s arrival and subsequent refusal to run faster than flipbook speed to prompt
