Um, no, but it's more a case that nothing I've seen recently has me convinced an upgradec is justified at all. So it's more a case of not upgrading than what I upgrade to.
Put it this way. My next "upgrade" will effectively be a new PC. Oh, case and PSU will survive, but an upgrade effectively means, at a minimum, MB, processor and RAM, and unless I want to settle for 10-year old graphics, a GPU too.
Sooooo ..... not cheap, then.
And the question is, what benefit do I get?
Gaming? Not really any longer a gamer. Steam, and the associated DRM changes of this era, ruined PC gaming for me. I do not have Steam, or any similar (EA, etc) type platforms
and never will. So, that effectively locks me out of most gaming, and I can get by with scratching my gaming itch with my current museum-piece PC, and a few GOG releases .... and my vast choice of old games to replay.
So, gaming isn't a justification, because if some kind, passing billionaire dropped in and donated the most powrrful, full-featured and impressive gaming PC on the planet, free, gratis and for nothing, I'm
still not going to use Steam. Ever.
Outside of gaming, what justification for a new PC do I have? Not much. My 'main' PC is really only required to run applications I was running years ago on a Q6600-generation PC, and as it was running what I need quite satisfactorily
back then, why wouldn't it do so now?
What does it do?,Usual office stuff (WP, spreadsheete, a bit of database), my photo editing (pretty much hobby only these days), a bit of audio and video editing and so on. Put it this way - I still use Cooledit (v2.x
IIRC) and that must be about 15 years old. But, I know it, it does everything I want/need, so why upgrade?
And
that is the fundamental sticking point.
Given that my needs haven't increased, and in fact have decreased in several ways, exactly what benefit do I get, that I want or need, from spending a lot of money on a new/upgraded PC?
Note: I am
NOT suggesting that my logic applies to anyone else (though it probably will to some). If you, dear reader, need, can justify or simply want a new CPU, PC or whatever, go for it. If you have so much spare cash that a grand or so on a new/upgraded PC means about as much as an extra cup of coffee to your weekly spend, then what the hell.
But for me (and most of us) opportunity cost applies. That grand will only spend once, and in my list of options to spend it on, a PC upgrade comes a long way down the list.
If I win £100m on the lottery, okay, new PC it is. Gold-plated, probably. But seeing as I don't do the lottery I'm not holding my breath for a jackpit win.