Survey: How old is your computer?

[panzersharkcat]

My oldest was an X230 (that I've sold to somebody whose T440p got stolen). My newest is my desktop that I build a few months ago. In between is my X1 Extreme Gen 1 that I bought refurbished last November. I plan on getting an AMD X13 to replace the X230 as my secondary laptop. I'll probably sell the X1 Extreme next year and upgrade to a P15 Gen 2. Depends on what the P1 Gen 4 looks like.

[atxcyclist]

My main desktop is an R7 2700X that I put together late last year, had an i5 7600K before that and it's a secondary computer now. I have some Haswell stuff hanging around, I rarely get rid of anything. I still have some C2D machines and a few old P4 PGA478 machines in a closet. I even have a couple of laptops, including one with an Athlon XP-M. The laptop I actually use is a Sandy bridge i5 Dell Latitude, kinda crap these days but it works and has decent connectivity, even cellular if I wanted to put a SIM in it. I also have an Early 2008 iMac that's fully-loaded, a first-gen PowerPC Mac Mini that's basically a doorstop, and a CRT iMac.

 

I had a couple of Phenom II x6 systems, gave one to a family member, gave the other to my office to set up a server. I just got rid of a bunch of parts a few months ago, I had a bag of ISA-slot 1200 and 2400 baud modems, and some 1mb video cards. Also some completely worthless IDE hard drives. I still have a whole pile of SoundBlaster and compatible sound cards that are useless these days, and a few old 3Dfx video cards; So much stuff that hasn't had a driver since Windows XP if that.

[GrayTech]

Hard to tell since I'm always upgrading. But the oldest parts are 2-3 years old. My HTPC only has reused parts.

[seon123]

How do you define the age of a computer, though. Is it the age of the oldest component? Is it when you first put it together (see Ship of Theseus)? Is it the age of the main components? Or is it simply the average of all the ages of each component?

 

Oldest component is the case and one of the fans, 6 years, and is also when I initlally put the PC together. The CPU, motherboard and RAM were changed out in 2017. The average would be I'm guessing about 4 years

[thisisderpy]

Hows about a computer so old it can't even run Windows properly (or a newish version anyway)?

[McBUrn]

My current and only desktop is a prebuild my wife bought when she was a student ... It's based around a Core 2 Quad Q8200 from 2008.
I'm mainly working on my company's laptop and the lack of time for gaming/video editing due to a house renovation lead to no upgrading this PC since she bought it. We only bought a I7 surface pro 2 years ago to replace a dying Ipad, our computers are therefore definitely not at the cutting edge of technology.

 

I love hardware and can easily afford a very high end rig but have absolutely no use for it right now, therefore I keep what I've got until there's an actual need. Having more free time now so I'm trying to be a bit up to date with the current things and considering building a new computer.
That's how I do, if there's a use I buy/upgrade, if not then things stay. Quite a cost effective approach, my last actual build from scratch was based on an AMD Athlon 1700+ and a custom loop back in 03'

[wall03]

What do i do if I have all of the computer parts for a $600 build but a motherboard on my table, literally? i am typing this on a 2011 MacBook Air but as soon as the motherboard comes, i will have a 0 year old build with the Ryzen 3600 and 16GB of RAM and a RX 470 OC? I imagine it is the main computer but I have most of the parts for a 0 yr old computer.

[TomvanWijnen]

On 7/1/2020 at 5:39 PM, maxtch said:

"There is no point polishing a turd that is an old PC not of the current generation. Sell it while it still worth something." (I trickle upgrade my PC, so the base platform is often a few generations behind.)

I like buying the stuff that's just gone cheap, so I can have quite functional hardware for a small amount of money.

 

On 7/1/2020 at 5:39 PM, maxtch said:

"Why bother with trickle upgrades? It is much more satisfying to get big upgrades year over year."

Simple: I like having money, rather than spending it on something I don't need.

[Rarity]

bought in 2015 (x-99 platform)..then swapped/upgrade parts over the years till the only the casing (corsair 780t), was the only part left from the original build ...

[Tan3l6]

On 7/1/2020 at 6:39 PM, maxtch said:

So I would like to survey this here, on a platform mostly of Western audience, how old is your computer?

How do you define "your computer"? Motherboard and CPU? A week old, 10600K and mobo that theoretically is great, but in practice all core max is 4,7Ghz

[Peter Starzynski]

I just got a 15.6 inch HP computer. Runs an Intel Core i5, 12GB of DDR3 Ram, 256 GB of Solid State Storage. I use it for video editing, surfing the web, and social media. However, its not the best for gaming as I tried to play a demo version of Detroit: Become Human on this (For the record, I have the full game for PS4). All in all, I think its a really good laptop. Best one I have ever owned.

[marti23]

Literally 2 weeks

[OU812]

Depends on the part and depends on the system.

[Guest]

My PC is an old ten year old phenom system.

[Crunchy Dragon]

I think it depends on your definition.

 

My rig is running an i7-5820K fresh out of 2014, a GTX 1070 from 2016, but I've only had this system since July of 2019.

[zeusthemoose]

I have a 2 month old laptop and 2-3 year old desktop that I use. But I also have 3 10-15 year old desktops (some still use pata) and a decade+ laptop that just sit in my room.

[Sport Driver]

7 year old PC with i5 4430 but I added RX480 and new PSU 3 years ago. It's time to switch platform though.

[sub68]

my newest computer is 5~ ish old laptop

my desktop is a i5 3470 (still runs great)

 

[Guest]

2 year old B450 platform with flagship 2700x. 

No new platforms till DDR5.

Have hardware 20 years old.

Where should I vote?

 

 

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

I have a i5 7400 and RX480. New 3070 soon, and new r5 3600 later.

[minibois]

3 years old, but with a 1 year old videocard (upgraded my videocard last year)

[atxcyclist]

My current machine was built in August of last year if I remember correctly. I did carry my video card over from my previous build.

[AndrewZScorpion]

Only got a new PC this year because my 7600k decided 2 1/2 years was long enough. Would've kept it for about another year.

[soldier_ph]

1 Month, just got my XMG Core 15 AMD, see specs below. Will build a brand new PC with Zen 3 and RTX 3000 series later this year/beginning of next year. And then I'll upgrade both the Tower and Notebook every two years.

[GionnyBanana]

I was always a firm believer of trickle upgrades too: I would ask every birthday a piece of my rig to my parents (sometimes I got two because I got the uncles involved lol), but since I started working a year ago I stopped gaming, so I have my old system with an i7 2700K and no video card, because my 970 broke shortly after I started working.

However now with the new things that are going to be released I am going to make a bulk upgrade for the first time in my life since I can afford it. I am so excited and I can't wait to try VR too!