How 'OLD' is your pc?

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

2 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

Which pc do you want to know about?

Most people have more then one pc!

Doesnt matter, as long as you are willing to share

[iKingRPG]

I'd say judge by the motherboard chipset and the GPU. So i hhave a h270m ds3h with evga gtx 1060 3gb

[wasab]

My cpu is fx 8320 which is like a proccessor from the 2012. 

 

Gpu is r9 380 from the 2015 but it is simply a rebrand of an older card r9 280 which is itself a rebrand of an even older card from 2012-2013ish. 

 

In short, my PC hardware birthdays are 2012 even though I purchased all the parts and built it in 2015. Not planning on upgrade until 2020 or perhaps even a few years after. 

[Ertman]

I’d say the motherboard/cpu is the best indicator. I think GPUs don’t accurately indicate age of the computer overall, it’s just one component. The motherboard/cpu can dictate ram type, cpu generation and is more of a limitation than the GPU is.

 

 

Honestly age of the computer shouldn’t matter, it’s whwrther it meets your needs that should count. 

[Jth3rd]

If we're going on CPU and motherboard mine would be Nov 09 when AMD came out with 965 black edition, still running original setup and power supply only upgrades was water cooling and newer case was originally built inside of a old gateway tower.... still running off the original harddrive lol always wanted a gaming computer, but never have the funds and now having a family and kids their wants/needs will always out way upgrades, granted upgrades now would be a newer system since most things on it are obsolete 

[MandoPanda]

My laptop is five years old.

[XR6]

My current PC is a 2012 iMac 27 inch that I got for free at a recycling center because it has a big crack in the corner of the screen and the hard drive was practically on the verge of death. I swapped out the hard drive and it seems fine. As for the crack in the screen, well it bothered me at first but I'm used to it now.

 

My old B85-based PC (now a file server) I got as a prebuilt back in 2015. Only upgrade I've done is a Crucial MX500 250GB SSD (which I'll be replacing as I want to reuse it in another build). It has some old Maxtor and Toshiba drives that are loud af in it atm.

[Canada EH]

1 hour ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

Doesnt matter, as long as you are willing to share

IBM Personal System/2

from a major corporation I used to work for

The pc has 5.25" and 3.5"

I would guess circa 1985 I believe

[XR6]

1 minute ago, Canada EH said:

IBM Personal System/2

from a major corporation I used to work for

The pc has 5.25" and 3.5"

I would guess circa 1985 I believe

That's pretty cool. I'm thinking of buying an old Model M keyboard or maybe even a full PS/2 system if budget allows.

I was thinking of using a broken PS/2 case or something like that for my next build   (again, if budget allows). 

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[Canada EH]

6 minutes ago, 1kv said:

IBM Personal System/2

they are ancient technology, like the old c promt days c:\\dir and such, I cant remember, that was for discette directory.

 

 

I used to have boxes and boxes of shit, 3.5's and 5.25's and the manuals.

 

IBM Personal System/2

 

 

 

 

 

I have always hated programming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

2016 rMBP w/TB bought in January 2017. Will keep for several more years and see what 2022 brings. 

[corrado33]

Uh... for the 3 PCs in front of me.... one is LGA 775, so the parts are from ~2007 2008ish... So 10 years old?

 

The other is a 1150 board with a 4770k so that's... 5ish years old.

 

The third is a 6700k so that's....3 years old now. 

 

Oh and the mac... that's from 2013 so.... 5 years old as well. It has an i7-4771 in it. 

[Ertman]

Lets see.... Here are a couple of examples of why I don't like to use GPUs to determine age.

 

2008 - 10 years as of 2018

-DQ35JO motherboard launched in 2007

-x3350 launched in 2008.

 Example of why I don't like using GPUs to determine the age as the GPU will range from, onboard (2007) to HD6750 (2010) to R7260x (2013). While this is a quad core, I'd  hardly consider this system as 2013 system. 

 

2001 -  17 years as of 2018

Athlon Xp 1800+

-Riva TNT originally a holdover from a dead P3 system is from 1998

-Geforce 6200 from 2004

-Ram upgraded

-Original HDD from 1998

To me this computer is from 2001 despite the upgrades, and even holding over the gpu from 1998.

 

 

GPUs are just too upgradeable over many years. Anything with a PCIe you can slot a 2018 GPU into, doesn't make it a "system from 2018".

 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

14 hours ago, Ertman said:

 Example of why I don't like using GPUs to determine the age as the GPU will range from, onboard (2007) to HD6750 (2010) to R7260x (2013). While this is a quad core, I'd  hardly consider this system as 2013 system. 

yes, this reminds me of a video from jayz saying a gpu is a computer inside a computer

[SenKa]

On 12/18/2018 at 2:58 AM, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

not all the parts are bought and put together at same time, so how would you determine age of yor pc?

 

eg I upgraded GPU 4yrs ago, cpu 2yrs ago, add hardrive a month ago etc.

sounds difficult lol

 

I go off the purchase year of the processor, usually. I got an i7-960 way back in 2013 or so; Got an FX-6100 in 2015, and my current i5-8600K in 2017. So, if I had all 3 systems still they would be 5 years old, 3 years old, and 1 year old. 

 

My NAS is from 2006, so 12 years old.

 

Laptop is from 2016, so 2 years old.

[_Hustler_One_]

7 month old and it's already covered by a lot of dust, my environtment is dusty, and makes me clean the dust filters frequently before I regret it..

[Tamesh16]

reminds me of windows vista performance rating

[aDoomGuy]

My box is not very new. It has FX-8350 which is about 5 years old? Video card is a year old GTX 1050 Ti. Fans are not older than the video card so it's alright.

[DimasRMDO]

My first PC, 4 years. My new PC? Few months.

[paddy-stone]

Depends on your use case IMO... if you game, then the GPU is the highest priority in determining the age. But for general users it would be the CPU/mobo. There's too many variables for there to be a "one rule fit all" type of thing, because not everyone's the same and some update their PCs very often (like me)

 

[SolarNova]

PC in sig is roughly 6 years old.

[king.jameso]

Well, i built my desktop right after the 6700k came out. everything is from that time frame, except my graphics card, which is an rx480, which i think is still 2 years old or so? 

 

also, my laptop is an early 2013 MBP. its a little beat to hell, but it still works for the internet and simple word processing, so i'm not replacing it yet, cause im broke... 

[MEC-777]

Take a guess...  

 

[Speakerator]

oldest parts a bit over 8 years.

- Mobo,  8GB of the RAM and various other parts: 2010

- CPU: upgraded to a used 2600k early in 2018 (though the part should be from ~2010 / 11

- GPU: last week  

 

Overall performance for gaming at QHD and the usual office and occasional photo edit is still pretty good and as long as nothing fails I plan on keeping it like this for a while.

 

[TacoSenpai]

My desktop main rig 2 going on 3 years now.

 

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I also got a Acer Aspire 5 laptop earlier this year.