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Age of components

Hey all! Very new to the forums here (actually made this account for this post) and this is probably a question you get a lot. But i built my PC about 5 years ago.

 

My question in short is can the age of my CPU, graphics card ect effect the performance? I feel as thought lately my entire rig has been lagging. I used to be able to stream and watch youtube videos while playing games and now playing a youtube video while playing a low intensity game like League of Legends i get frame drop and freezes. I have very basic knowledge outside of general IT work (not so much with higher tech stuff)

 

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Depends on the component. For CPU, GPU and memory their potential performance doesnt change. If they run at this frequency and other numbers today, it will do the same a decade later. What can change though is the speed they are actually running, for example a cooler gunked up with dust and hair can give so little cooling to the CPU, that it thermal throttles (i.e. slows itself down) to avoid serious damage.

 

Then there;s the other parts. Storage drives do wear out over time and get slower and slower until the point that there are no more reserved sectors to replace bad sectors, that's when you start losing data. On SSDs, you also go through the speed loss process, but at the end it will just stop working completely and all the data is effectively gone. Not recoverable.

 

I think it's just dust build up or thermal paste dried to crisps and no longer conduct heat well causing overheating. Try clean the internals and replace the thermal paste (a tube cost around $5, use alcohol to wipe the old stuff off).

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Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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19 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Depends on the component. For CPU, GPU and memory their potential performance doesnt change. If they run at this frequency and other numbers today, it will do the same a decade later. What can change though is the speed they are actually running, for example a cooler gunked up with dust and hair can give so little cooling to the CPU, that it thermal throttles (i.e. slows itself down) to avoid serious damage.

 

Then there;s the other parts. Storage drives do wear out over time and get slower and slower until the point that there are no more reserved sectors to replace bad sectors, that's when you start losing data. On SSDs, you also go through the speed loss process, but at the end it will just stop working completely and all the data is effectively gone. Not recoverable.

 

I think it's just dust build up or thermal paste dried to crisps and no longer conduct heat well causing overheating. Try clean the internals and replace the thermal paste (a tube cost around $5, use alcohol to wipe the old stuff off).

Ok I will try that out tonight. About how long should thermal paste last though? I remember replacing mine now but it was about over a few months ago.

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5 minutes ago, Wuush said:

Ok I will try that out tonight. About how long should thermal paste last though? I remember replacing mine now but it was about over a few months ago.

 

Thermal paste should last 2~3 years when exposed to the elements; thermal paste should be still absolutely fine after just a few months.
That said, it is common for system builders to replace the thermal paste once a year (e.g. when performing regular maintenance on the PC...full dust cleanse).

 

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5 minutes ago, Wuush said:

Ok I will try that out tonight. About how long should thermal paste last though? I remember replacing mine now but it was about over a few months ago.

depends on the environment, paste used and cooler, usually they last from a year to three years.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Just now, -rascal- said:

 

Thermal paste should last 2~3 years when exposed to the elements; thermal paste should be still absolutely fine after just a few months.
That said, it is common for system builders to replace the thermal paste once a year (e.g. when performing regular maintenance on the PC...full dust cleanse).

Ah ok. I don't have any Thermal on hand but i'm gonna do a full dedusting to see if that works first. I do know that the back exhaust fan has issues where is just doesn't spin sometimes as well so i wouldn't be surprised if the heat is an issue as well. 

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2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

depends on the environment, paste used and cooler, usually they last from a year to three years.

Hmm well i only just replaced it about 6 months or so ago. I will dedust tonight and see if that helps. I do know that i'm gonna be upgrading my 970 card soon as well regardless

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There is some degradation happening but this usually only limits the maximum overclock and not stock speeds. For example, a young 4790k could be stable at 4.8GHz and 1.25V, a few years later it might need 1.35V and a few more years later it might not be stable at all at 4.8GHz anymore. This can happen. The closer you go at a specific silicon's limit the quicker it degrades. Stock speeds might get limited after decades - well after a CPU got obsolete. 

 

One of the reasons your system feels sluggish is the development of software and an aging system. Developers will just use the performance that is available. Why bother making it more efficient if there's plenty of performance available? And an aging system will become slower due to alterations of the system, corruption of registry entries, lost background processes and traces of programs you've long removed. It's not as bad as it was back in those WinXP days (one reinstall per year or so - or before every single LAN party) but it still is a thing.

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