Comment by ndriscoll

In what world is it embarrassing to not buy hardware you don't need? The servers worked fine for years. When there was an actual reason to spend money, they bought something new. Sounds like good stewardship of the donations they receive.

I finally just upgraded my 9 year old computer with an i5-6600k to a Ryzen 9 5950x because I wanted to be able to edit home videos. I already rarely even used 1 core on the old CPU, the new one is 7x more powerful, and it's an ebay part from 5 years ago. I don't foresee needing to upgrade again for another decade. I probably would've been good for another 15-20 years if I had upgraded to a DDR5 platform, but RAM prices had already spiked, so I just swapped the motherboard and CPU.