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I was upgrading my desktop to improve my dire need for storage, when it truly dawned on me that the one piece of hardware that has persisted since I first got my PC was my old Seagate 1TB hard drive (and a 140mm Rosewill fan). I'm one of the incremental upgraders, I've never removed a storage device from this PC and I've generally changed one part at a time, such as the graphics card, case, CPU cooler, and boot SSD.

 

Through the process of taking new parts and adding to old, and eventually changing the entire platform, I'm left only with one remnant of "My first PC" which puts my current system in a bit of a limbo. Is it my second PC? My seventh? 

 

Curious to know how you guys designate "eras" of your personal system's iteration. Lucky are those who just outright buy a whole new system when it's time to upgrade, uncomplicated.

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PC1.7

 

for example, BethesdaPC (my main rig) is on something like its 13th iteration, BUT the boot drive is still the same, so its still BethesdaPC

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Good old Ship of Theseus paradox.

Personally I upgrade the core of my PC so the motherboard, cpu, graphics card, and possibly memory changes while case, storage, cooler, and everything else stays the same for the most part. For me, every time I upgrade the core I would call it a different PC.

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5 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

I was upgrading my desktop to improve my dire need for storage, when it truly dawned on me that the one piece of hardware that has persisted since I first got my PC was my old Seagate 1TB hard drive (and a 140mm Rosewill fan). I'm one of the incremental upgraders, I've never removed a storage device from this PC and I've generally changed one part at a time, such as the graphics card, case, CPU cooler, and boot SSD.

 

Through the process of taking new parts and adding to old, and eventually changing the entire platform, I'm left only with one remnant of "My first PC" which puts my current system in a bit of a limbo. Is it my second PC? My seventh? 

 

Curious to know how you guys designate "eras" of your personal system's iteration. Lucky are those who just outright buy a whole new system when it's time to upgrade, uncomplicated.

My first pc: Pentium+512 mb of ram+240gb of hdd storage. That's all I know

Second: HP Envy AIO pc- i7-4785t (on integrated), passive cooling, 1tb hdd, 

Laptop: Chromebook r11 (District provided) with some Celeron 4c/4t from five years back and 16 gb of flash storage. 

PC Upgrade: 1tb hdd to (smh) 860 evo 512gb. 

 

My pathetic existence. I upgraded exactly once to a shitty overpriced hdd. Far from a Theseus paradox.

 

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I have a seagate 2tb hdd, been with me in all my main rigs. Still works so no reason to replace it, important data is on my NAS anyways.

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I bought my PC used and sold off all the parts except the Thermaltake Core P3 case.  And I also have a HDD I am using from my previous PC which was one of the ASUS ROG small form factor PCs.  That thing was cool and I bought it because of the LTT review of it.  

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A number of things made my first PC my first PC, namely the motherboard and the GPU. I originally had an FX-4100 on some shitty Gigabyte AM3+ board and an HD 7850 that fucked itself because of Adrenalin 2020.

Back in September 2017, I switched the platform (and case!) I was on to AM4, grabbing an Athlon X4 950 as a placeholder CPU until I could save for a Ryzen 7 1700X in June 2018.

September 2018 saw the switch of the GPU and the power supply for my rig from a 7850 and a CX600M to an RX 580 and a G3 550.

I got rid of the last remnant of my original setup by buying a Blu-ray drive not too long ago, not long after I got my current monitor, if memory serves.

 

My first setup, in a more complete and organized state, consisted of an AMD FX-4100, a Gigabyte AM3+ board, 8GB of PNY DDR3 RAM (which is faulty), my cherished and dead Sapphire Radeon HD 7850, a Corsair CX600M power supply and a Thermaltake case, in which its name slips my mind right now.

My current setup consists of an AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, a damaged ASRock AB350M board (by damaged, I mean the USB3 header broke), 16GB of Patriot DDR4 RAM (at 2400MHz!), an MSI Radeon RX 580, an EVGA G3 550 power supply and what'd usually be a Cooler Master N200 case, temporarily replaced by an old HP desktop case from 2006, because I thought it was funny.

A future upgrade which would be my third generation of my desktop would most certainly consist of a Threadripper upgrade, at the very least, because I could get a lot of mileage of a bunch of cores.

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for me it would be my boot drive which is now being used as a drive for linux but it is still in my rig and the other would be my case fans actually.  I upgraded them shortly after my first pc build and they have been transferred in all 3 of my case revisions.  They are corsair ml pro white led fans

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I don't remember how many PCs I've had now, but my current PC is Remilia MKIIIB, which means it's the 2nd minor revision of 3rd the major revision of this current PC. I carry over the name of the PC (Remilia in this case) whenever I keep any part of a system over. Remilia MkIIIB actually only has storage in common with Remilia MkIIC, but Remilia MkIIIA (which was a major overhaul) had it's GPU come over from MkIIC.

 

The PC series I had before Remilia was Fubuki (Blizard), which was a white themed FX8320 PC, which actually carried over until I upgraded to a Ryzen 5 1400 (sadly I had to sell that system to get through Uni). Before that starts getting hazy and I don't remember what I used to call my older machines.

 

The oldest piece of hardware I have is probably a 2TB seagate Cuda LP I have in my F@H Slave, it has three years or so of power on time last time I looked.

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I don't count them. I'd have to face the fact that I'm irresponsible if I did that.

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Well, to me the pc is a "new pc" when J change the core: mobo+cpu(+memory usually too).

 

Since I never do pointless upgrades, the core always change at the same time (ram being the exception, because of failures or expanding) 

The secondary components (hdd, psu, etc) can change all the time because of failures, or carry on to new pcs - to me they are almost like peripherals regarding to the pc "identity'.

 

The exception is the GPU, which can be VERY relevant. So the gpu is like a "1.5 version" situation, for example I went from a 750ti to a 960 and THEN I changed my pc, and later the 960 got out and a rx 580 went in. 3 gpus, but only 2 pcs - the 960 was in both the old and the new pc.

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I still have my 1TB hard drive that I had in my original Athlon X4 750K build from back in like 2013 and it's still kicking, other than that everything has been replaced😅

 

Just hit 4 years of power on hours an hour ago actually😂

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6 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

I was upgrading my desktop to improve my dire need for storage, when it truly dawned on me that the one piece of hardware that has persisted since I first got my PC was my old Seagate 1TB hard drive (and a 140mm Rosewill fan). I'm one of the incremental upgraders, I've never removed a storage device from this PC and I've generally changed one part at a time, such as the graphics card, case, CPU cooler, and boot SSD.

 

Through the process of taking new parts and adding to old, and eventually changing the entire platform, I'm left only with one remnant of "My first PC" which puts my current system in a bit of a limbo. Is it my second PC? My seventh? 

 

Curious to know how you guys designate "eras" of your personal system's iteration. Lucky are those who just outright buy a whole new system when it's time to upgrade, uncomplicated.

PSU is the only thing surviving from the OG build of mine, 3 motherboards, 5 CPUs, 3 cases, 4 CPU coolers, 5 GPUs, 4 Drives and three kits of RAM 

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I don't separate them in that way. Either it's my computer or it's not my computer, if I can log into it using my face or fingerprint (even my desktops keyboard has a fp reader) , it's my computer

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It’s the motherboard. It’s effectively the base you build on to complete your computer. Even Windows does this.

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9 minutes ago, RorzNZ said:

It’s the motherboard. It’s effectively the base you build on to complete your computer. Even Windows does this.

You can swap it out if you're lucky and windows will recognise it. 

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This is "the ship of Theseus", essentially the question of how many parts you can change in an object before it's a new and different object. Personally I track the motherboard.

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Lol @Fasauceome I'm in the same boat here. The last reminiscing piece of my 4770k build (first PC I built myself, upgrades don't count there haha) are my 2x 1TB 7200RPM Seagate Barracudas. These things have seen war though, running in raid0 since day one for 6-7 years now, and not so much anymore but for the first 4 years of service they saw the front lines of battle hahaha. I used them as dump drive for editing between my PC and server. So files were constantly being written and read to these drives.

 

Their job got replaced by 2x 500GB WD Blue SSD's maybe 3 years ago now when nand prices started to become more affordable (also running in raid0). But these good old Barracudas have never let me down haha. Sadly within the past 2 months I noticed some ticking noise and CrystalDiskMark gave me the bad news, my (G:) drive disk health is a yellow 'Caution' and drive 2 is starting to show the scars.

 

I will continue to use them for now though, as the data on them is a backup to my entire system and then also backed up to my external HDD solution, but I am going to keep using them until they die.

 

EDIT: I now just decided that the first one to die gets framed lol.

 

EDIT 2: (after reading all the other comments) 

Other than these 2x 1TB Seagates everything from my 4770K / GTX 780 system is long gone. After I sold it I built what is now my 'main'' system that has seen 1 major upgrade (Motherboard /platform) and way to many 'minor' upgrades.

 

Originally an i7-6700k / GTX 960 now an R7 3800x / GTX 1080 Ti. But as long as the theme and continuation of my blue LED fans remain in a major upgrade cycle it will remain Blueberry Pi (loved playing and coding with my raspberry pi at the time, and before RGB was a thing I loved static blue).

 

SO even though this thing has seen 3 different CPU's, 3 motherboards, 4 GPU's, 3 CPU coolers, 2 PSU's, 4 memory kits, and 5-6 cases, it is the same Blueberry Pi to me (kinda wish I gave it a different name now, but to late now haha). 

 

Also a lot of the parts that I replaced in this system went on to live in my other builds, my main build just gets the latest and greatest. The oldest parts I have from my 6700k build are the CPU (different system), my EVGA 750W P2 (different system), and my blue LED Corsair ML fans, which really make the theme of the build. The day I build a new PC and don't use these fans is the day it will officially no longer be Blueberry Pi.

 

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First computer, all new parts except 1.4gb ide drive and floppy from used nonworking system.

  Gpu went out after few months, so upgraded.  Few years later replaced motherboard and cpu in upgrade to dual core.  Ram and more hdd and second gpu added for sli over few   years.  

 

Bought second computer with low power use for general use at same time as upgrading the gaming rig, dual core intel atom, used 4 10 years, kvm switch to share peripherals.

 

Bought all new parts for coffelake i3, limited to 32gb ram, i use ram faster then chrome tabs, upgraded ram to 48gb.

Bought all new hardware for ryzen 2700, except swapped ram, ssd, and gpu from i3.

  later upgrade from 1050 to 5700xt, put gpu back in i3 system

HBA, 24tb of hdd and 10gig nics and more ssd to turn i3 into nas, plan to upgrade to 96gb ram for main system and 32gb for nas.

Also 64 arm cores in cluster on network for clusters.

 

With about 10 sbc, 2 4u rack mounts, and two towers networked together with two kvm,  hdmi matrix, 3 keyboards, 2 mice, 5 monitors, VMs and multiple os on single motherboard but other software spread across multiple boards, i'm not really sure where one machine stops and another starts anymore...

 

 

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My first setup - nVidia 9600 GS, Intel Pentium Dual Core, 4GB ram, and a 500GB storage drive.. That PC lasts even today without any problem.. I remember it being able to play games like Crysis which were considered great back then without any problems.. But I just replaced that whole setup with an Asus laptop, then with a Dell Inspiron 5570.. That setup is now at my cousin's place, and it functions without any problems, as it does lighter gaming without any problems, but runs into problems when a newer game is added (it makes problems with DirectX support I think, not %100 sure). A minor change that they had to do is just change the graphics card to a nVidia GT 920..

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The only things that have been with me since I first got into PCs/got my first PC have been my Dell G2410, my PSU, my hard drive, my mouse, my desk, and that's it.

 

I have since added two more monitors and changed the CPU (twice), motherboard, RAM, cooler, fans, case, added an SSD, added a fan controller, changed headphones (twice) and my keyboards cycle out on a daily basis.

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CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X Motherboard: MSI B450-A Pro Max RAM: 32GB I forget GPU: MSI Vega 56 Storage: 256GB NVMe boot, 512GB Samsung 850 Pro, 1TB WD Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD PSU: Inwin P85 850w Case: Fractal Design Define C Cooling: Stock for CPU, be quiet! case fans, Morpheus Vega w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 2 for GPU Monitor: 3x Thinkvision P24Q on a Steelcase Eyesite triple monitor stand Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3 Keyboard: Focus FK-9000 (heavily modded) Mousepad: Aliexpress cat special Headphones:  Sennheiser HD598SE and Sony Linkbuds

 

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This is actually how my pc is, I literally started with a dell studio 540 and eventually came to what I have now

In my head it's still my first pc because I've never replaced everything at once, but I guess if replacing the motherboard/cpu/ram counts then this is my third pc.

Right now the only surviving component of my original system is the WD Blue 1TB hdd

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x  | GPU: GTX 1070 FE | RAM: TridentZ 16GB 3200MHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M | PSU: EVGA 650 B3 | STORAGE: Boot drive: Crucial MX500 1TB, Secondary drive: WD Blue 1TB hdd | CASE: Phanteks P350x | OS: Windows 10 | Monitor: Main: ASUS VP249QGR 144Hz, Secondary: Dell E2014h 1600x900

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I base it off mobo replacement - while the CPU is the brains, its useless without the body.  My current build has Case, PSU, SSD and GPU from previous build in it.  But its new to me ;)

Workstation Laptop: Dell Precision 7540, Xeon E-2276M, 32gb DDR4, Quadro T2000 GPU, 4k display

Wifes Rig: ASRock B550m Riptide, Ryzen 5 5600X, Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6700 XT, 16gb (2x8) 3600mhz V-Color Skywalker RAM, ARESGAME AGS 850w PSU, 1tb WD Black SN750, 500gb Crucial m.2, DIYPC MA01-G case

My Rig: ASRock B450m Pro4, Ryzen 5 3600, ARESGAME River 5 CPU cooler, EVGA RTX 2060 KO, 16gb (2x8) 3600mhz TeamGroup T-Force RAM, ARESGAME AGV750w PSU, 1tb WD Black SN750 NVMe Win 10 boot drive, 3tb Hitachi 7200 RPM HDD, Fractal Design Focus G Mini custom painted.  

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 5 3600,ASRock B450M Pro4 (3dmark.com)

Daughter 1 Rig: ASrock B450 Pro4, Ryzen 7 1700 @ 4.2ghz all core 1.4vCore, AMD R9 Fury X w/ Swiftech KOMODO waterblock, Custom Loop 2x240mm + 1x120mm radiators in push/pull 16gb (2x8) Patriot Viper CL14 2666mhz RAM, Corsair HX850 PSU, 250gb Samsun 960 EVO NVMe Win 10 boot drive, 500gb Samsung 840 EVO SSD, 512GB TeamGroup MP30 M.2 SATA III SSD, SuperTalent 512gb SATA III SSD, CoolerMaster HAF XM Case. 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/37004594?

Daughter 2 Rig: ASUS B350-PRIME ATX, Ryzen 7 1700, Sapphire Nitro+ R9 Fury Tri-X, 16gb (2x8) 3200mhz V-Color Skywalker, ANTEC Earthwatts 750w PSU, MasterLiquid Lite 120 AIO cooler in Push/Pull config as rear exhaust, 250gb Samsung 850 Evo SSD, Patriot Burst 240gb SSD, Cougar MX330-X Case

 

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All of my computers have been pre-builts that I've souped up. As such, things like the motherboard, case and PSU change all at once. My current computer doesn't have any of the orginal parts I put in my first computer (all though I still have the old thing). In my first computer (that I actually tinkered with), I upgraded the RAM, then added a graphics card, then a new boot drive, then another new GPU, and then an SSD (and added a storage drive) and a new CPU (in some order I can't remember). The SSD, the GPU, and the storage drive got transferred to my new computer when I got it, but I consider this to be my second computer. If I had a more typical set up with individually upgradable parts, I would probably not consider it a new computer until I change a number of significant things, such as maybe the motherboard and case, for example.

What is actually supposed to go here? Some people put their specs, others put random comments or remarks about themselves or others, and there are a few who put cryptic statements.

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