Survey: How old is your computer?

[marknd59]

I have 2 systems. The oldest is 18 months old and used to be my daily driver but now it's 24/7 deicated F@H folding system and the only upgrades it got was to the GPU it went from a RX580 to a RTX 2060 and a RTX 2060 super. The newer system which I use as my daily driver is 5 months old it also folds 24/7 and has not had any upgrades as such just a bit of switching around of GPU's to balance the 2 systems for folding.
 

[LloydLynx]

I'm reading this on my 9 year old ASUS K53E. i3 2310m, intel HD3000, 8gb RAM, 240gb SSD, Fedora Workstation, it has the giant 72wh aftermarket battery. I sometimes wonder what'll push me to get a new laptop, since this thing just won't die, I could write a full length novel about it's abused life.

[BrianTheElectrician]

Well on average I'm sure it would be well over 20 years! Newest is an hp system with an i5 6500 and main rig is a i7 5820k with a gtx 1070. Oldest is a Compaq portable from 1983 . I generally upgrade either when my main rig doesn't do what I want it to anymore or when a great deal comes up on an upgrade I want but don't necessarily need. I'll probably upgrade to ryzen and a 3000 series in the next year or 2 but who knows lol.

[Joseph K]

On 7/1/2020 at 8:39 AM, maxtch said:

Back in a Chinese forum, I have discovered that a lot of people there sell their computer before its value depreciated much and move on to the next computer. Me being the a firm believer of trickle upgrades and have multiple old computers still operating feels like the odd one out there. They even threw certain mocking points at me:

• "AMD YES!!! AMD YES!!! Intel is STUPID!!!" (All my computers are based on Intel platforms, either because of Hackintoshing, or was bought before AMD became competitive.)
• "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.)
• "Why bother with trickle upgrades? It is much more satisfying to get big upgrades year over year."

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

6700 and 1070

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

Coming from console gaming you really get to see what an arms race pc technology is...in a good way.

 

 

[Ajukrezi]

Old sandy briidge system here but with alot never components like NVME ssd in PCI enclosure and gtx1070

[mariushm]

Voted 5-10 years, but honestly no idea how old my main system is ... FX 8320 in my profile. probably more than 5 years by now. 

Gonna jump straight to ryzen 3xxx or 4xxxwhen they're released and x570/b550

[Benjamin22044]

Mine is around 8 years old but still works perfectly well. Thank God I chose the i3 processor from Intel, the speed of the PC is still good enough and it never encountered any real issues. Of course, I keep on formatting it regularly. 

[NineEyeRon]

3 years in about 5 weeks.

 

last one did 9 years before I needed a new one

[WkdPaul]

OP is from Shanghai, I'm guessing the majority of the people on the forum he mentions are also from Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, etc... all big cities where people LOVE to flaunt their worldly possessions as status symbols (this is something VERY prevalent in China, people compete on a daily basis to show how much higher the food chain their are VS everyone else ... personal experience BTW).

 

So my guess is, that's something that is also present in their PC enthusiasts space. If he cares about fitting in, he'll follow, if he cares about enjoying his PC, he should tune them out and not openly display his specs or his PCs.

[GDRRiley]

most of my parts are 5 years old but GPU is 3 and CPU+motherboard and ram is 6 months

I've got plenty of old parts sitting around

[Parideboy]

7 years in a couple of weeks. This was the first pc that I built entirely from scratch by myself. From parts selection to the actual build process.

I decided to go with Haswell instead of Skylake because I was getting better performance with Haswell with the same amount of money.

People told me I was crazy for going with a 390 instead of a 970, that turned out pretty well.

 

I was broke af, started with a single 8Gb ram stick that became 2 after a couple of months.

It has served me well (and still is), but I miss the tempered glass panels and psu shrouds tbh

[X-System]

PC#1 : i7-7700 used (from 2017) bought in 2019, Z170XP-SLI used (from 2016) bought in 2020, RAM sticks bought new in 2020. (So between 0 and 4 years old)

PC#2 : E5-2667 V3 (from 2014) & MW70-3S0 (from 2016), I bought them used in 2018. RAM sticks & SSDs bought new in 2018. GPU bought new in 2019 (So between 1 and 6 years old)

PC#3 : PC Zotac, I bought it new in 2017 (3 years old)

[Justaphysicsnerd]

I am planning to switch to a nice desktop from this $***** Laptop. This laptop needs to be plugged into the wall at all times to operate and its has a pitiable dual core cpu

[Rocketdog2112]

Dell XPS 730X (circa 2008) X58 Alienware platform running a Intel i7-990X on Windows 10. Still one of the most aesthetic cases ever built IMHO. The 30 inch 3007wfp-hc about the same age also...

 

[mwagen]

3-4 years old mid-tier gaming rig. I usually end up building a new system, including upgrading the monitor, every four years so I can get the best graphics quality for gaming. I spoiled myself in 2007 when I built a decent rig to play Crysis and other games, and I've been a graphics snob ever since. I never get the high end stuff, usually a couple notches under, spending around ~$1500 at most. I don't follow the hardware release cycle too closely but it's always fun coming back every four years to see what's new and put together a nice bang for the buck gaming system. 

[BisquTz]

Currently running a AMD athlon II x4 760k and gtx 1060 with 8gb RAM built in 2014 and havent upgraded alot besides the new GPU in 2017 (from r7 260x to the 1060 6GB) and a new HDD last year when mine bricked

starting to buy some new parts leading up to the 3060 release for a whole new rig though
planning an i5-10600kf and 3060 if and when it is released

[Morris_lee_9116]

At January of 2019 i finally got my first gaming desktop, it's equipped with an Intel Core i3-8100, 8GB of DDR4 2666Mhz(running at 2400 due to Core i3), an AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB. Half a year after that i bought a 500GB NVME SSD and another stick of the same memory(the priced of ram dropped from $50 USD to about $25 in just half a year).
and this year a day after Ryzen 3 3300X launched i bought it alongside a MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX and an 1TB Adata SU800 Ultimate Sata SSD for my game storage, i probably will get a used high refresh rate monitor and faster and more stable ram (because the nand flash Kleev was using is garbage) and probably an RX 580 8GB(using crossfire on games that supports it and Folding@home when I'm not using it

[Dudis]

Voted less than one year but I tend to upgrade every 3-4 years or so. 

 

I never sell my used hardware, instead i usually gift them to family members. 

 

2019 pc (desktop) 

Ryzen 3800x

Rtx 2080 super

 

2016 pc (laptop, moved abroad) 

i7 6700 HQ

Gtx 1060 6gb

 

2012 PC (desktop) 

i7 3820 

Gtx 660 ti

[Dudis]

Sorry, double post. Have a nice day! 

Edited October 12, 2020 by Dudis

[shaz2sxy]

its an odd one, as my case is 6 months old, GPU 1 year old, mobo 6 months old CPU 2+ years old lol

[GoldSrc]

The main components (CPU, GPU, mobo, RAM) less than a year. The case, PSU, hard drives, monitor and other peripherals are over 5-7 years old I think.

[made zos ion]

I use a CF29 tough book that originally runned windows xp, but I upgraded it to windows severn, I also have a pavilion slimline that is my newest pc, second newest being the HP media center PC m260n, oldest being a CF28 tough book

[made zos ion]

Just now, made zos ion said:

I use a CF29 tough book that originally runned windows xp, but I upgraded it to windows severn, I also have a pavilion slimline that is my newest pc, second newest being the HP media center PC m260n, oldest being a CF28 tough book

here is my CF29 tough book setup

[Sarevok57]

i completely rebuilt my PC set up last year in jan, spending over 5000 on it

 

i usually upgrade/rebuild my PCs every 4 years or so

 

as for my alienware laptop, its 6 years old, and still holds up pretty good, i like using it for going out of town and the fact that its one of the last 18" laptops that were made ( since unfortunately laptops of that size aren't made any more )

 

i was thinking about replacing my alienware laptop, but down grading in screen size from 18" to 17" is very noticeable if you are used to 18 and i would rather have a bigger screen then downsize the screen with better hardware