The first new PC I ever bought was in early 2011. It was the first time I'd ever had enough money, and also the time when games had finally, FINALLY stepped off the hardware races for a while (largely because of gog and then steam opening distribution of older and small-scale independent games).
That PC, with only a bit of extra ram once or twice, was able to run games all the way up to red dead redemption 2 in early 2021. And it only struggled with that because of a specific incompatibility
