how old is your pc?

[Ticarus]

I am still using a Phenom II 955 which must be about ten years old now. Upgraded the ram capactiy and other parts but the cpu is has been pretty good for its lifetime.  I am hoping to upgrade whenever the new ryzen cpus become more available.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 hour ago, jamesjingyi said:

Honestly, it just does its thing and I have had 0 problems with it. I hope my next laptop will last this long tbh

i've had a failed drive cable on mine and i'm pretty sure i have a dying ram slot.

 

1 hour ago, Ticarus said:

I am still using a Phenom II 955 which must be about ten years old now. Upgraded the ram capactiy and other parts but the cpu is has been pretty good for its lifetime.  I am hoping to upgrade whenever the new ryzen cpus become more available.

i have one of those lying around actually. still pretty decent for basic use. the mobo i have with it seems to be slightly unstable which is a shame, but other than that it's fine. 

[PiberiusWilde]

About for years old and not even the latest component at time either

 

- i3 4130

- PowerColor R7 240 (2GB GDDR5)

- V-Gen 8GB DDR3

- Included with case PSU (blew up literally) replaced with 550w 80+ (forgot the name of the vendor)

- Biostar H81 (fried by PSU) replaced with msi B85M-IE35

- 500GB HDD (dead with in 6 months) replaced with 500GB from seagate

- 256GB SSD from Transcend

- Random case that was available at the store

[Orange1]

My computer is a week old.

 

You need to change the poll to add more newer time frames, maybe 0-6 months, then 6m-1y, 1-2y, 2-4y

[soldier_ph]

My Notebook is turning 4 Months old now, I do plan on using it for two years at the minimum. Am gonna wait till all of the new GPUs are out before I'll build my brand new Rig. I plan on keeping that rig for however long it takes Nvidia to launch RTX 4000 and AMD RX 7000 (if they end up calling it that) so probably two years. 

[Retro1989]

4790K

MSI 980TI

16GB Kingston RAM

1TB Samsung 850 Evo SSD

Phanteks Enthoo Pro

 

Over 5 years old now, while it's still going strong i'm planning a new build in the new year.

[dizmo]

Mine right now is about 7 years old, but it's a stop-gap PC for when I get a new rig for CyberPunk. Usually my PCs range from 2 - 3 years old at the most.

[YellowJersey]

8 years old for my primary computer. My rule is either 10 years between upgrades or upgrade when my current machine can no longer do what I need of it, and my 8 year old laptop still does what I need it to. Not looking at an upgrade until 2022.

[DarkShame2]

Mines is probably 8 years old, it was custom built in 2012  I believe.

[sub68]

primary rig is about 8 years old i5 3470

old rig is 9 years i5 2400

laptop is 4 years old i3 6gen

school is couple months old

nas is umm a amd x2 250 so 11 years old with a gt710

 

 

[LogicalDrm]

Multiselection might have been better for me CPU, mobo and half of RAM as well as cooler are 7 years old. Case is bought used in 2016, GPU is bought used in 2017. Main HDD is from 2014 I think. SSD is from 2018. So range of 2 to 7 years. Oldest still in use part of whole system is my monitor from 2009.

[agatong55]

currently I have 2 computers running mine and my fiancés computer, my computer is running a 1600x ( 3 years old ) and my fiancés computer is running a fx-6300 ( 8 years old ) but we both are upgrading to new computers this spring after all the craziness dies down. 

[Prodigy_Smit]

I used my old Samsung laptop for 7 years not because I could not afford one but because I just did not need an upgrade. Sadly the mobo gave up 2 years ago and that is when I got my new laptop, Lenovo Legion Y520.

[steelo]

I have a ~14 year old Acer laptop with an AMD Athlon X2 @ 2.1ghz (I think), 256gb HDD, a really, really crappy Radeon GPU and 2 gb of DDR2 RAM. This was considered to be a 'budget' system when it was new. I tried to upgrade to 3gb with RAM (if I remember correctly, 3gb was the limit)  I found off of ebay, but it gave me BSOD's, so I removed it. 

 

 I rarely use it, because Win10 takes 10 minutes to start up. It serves as a backup  and computer in the garage when I'm working on something and need to reference instructions online (although I believe my rpi 3 loads web pages faster) LOL. Everything comes to a screeching halt if I have more than one browser tab open.

 

If I'm bored, I may try installing an ultra-light OS like Ubuntu Mate or Mint and see if it's at least semi-pleasant to use.

[Alexzz]

I have never updated at least something below a year or two. My current components are less than a year old and the longest time I had a CPU was 5 years. But now that I work, I will likely just buy every or every second generation and give away or sell my old ones. 

[X-System]

PC main : CPU soon 5 year old # MB 5 year old # RAM bought new this year

 

PC gaming : CPU soon 7 year old # MB 5 year old # RAM 2 year old

[Astrum]

normally every 2 years I upgrade  either laptop or desktop. so usually each device lasts 4years... 

currently desktop got ryzen 3700 build. and laptop surfacepro5.. Haven't really had need to update laptop tho since i use it less and less... GPU still a 970 going to upgrade that this year to a 3070 once stock is figured out. 

[freeagent]

I upgraded my GTX 580 Matrix Platinum to a 980 Classified 2 years ago, and I upgraded my intel 520 ssd to a couple of 545s the summer before last. They were over 50% off so I had to. I also bought a Meshify C a couple of years ago.. love that case, but since my P8Z77-V kicked the bucket I had to go back to my old case because it eats an eatx board no problem, I’d have to do some cutting to get it to fit otherwise.. don’t have a dremmel. I wouldn’t mind a new GPU but it still handles 1080/60 just fine.

[harrisonjacobs]

On 11/10/2020 at 5:23 AM, Ashley said:

what i mean by how old is your pc i mean cpu+mobo+ram. gpu's and storage, the main things you'd normally upgrade over the years don't count. though i am still interested how old those components are, they don't count for the poll. 

 

i'm curious if the people on here upgrade more often than general consumers. we all know that "normies" will run a machine either until it gets slow or dies, and most normies i talk to have computers that are nearly 10 years old by now. i wanna know if this community upgrades more often. 

 

 

 

i myself use a base platform that's almost 11 years old now, 2 Xeon X5650's, 32gb of ram and a Supermicro server board. so it's basically the best of the best from that era, and it's still very usable for what i do with it which is general use and heavily multithreaded tasks like running a few VM's at a time. i barely game on it, and when i do i don't play multiplayer games, just old single player games, and that works just fine as i don't need 60fps all of the time i'm playing. i often turn up the details really high, so like... 

That is a good main PC! Me over vibing with a MacBook lol.

[WkdPaul]

Going to 3 years in Jan 2021 ... hardware can last a lot more than it used to be!

[thrasher_565]

i have a 6gen i5 6600k a few years ago and domplats 3000mh ram and some cheap gigabite z170-hd3 mb and upgraded that to an asus mark 1 z270 then sold it and downgraded to an asus mark 1 z170....also got an gtx 1080 at around xmis time.

[danomicar]

My main computer is coming up on 2 years old soon. I'm already starting to look around for a new system. Nothing beats the feeling of booting up your new PC for the first time

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

10 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

Going to 3 years in Jan 2021 ... hardware can last a lot more than it used to be!

ikr! my base platform is almost 11 years old and is still super powerful, that was unheard of when that hardware was released. like if you had an 11 year old computer in 2010 it was basically unusable. even if it was the best of the best in 2000. 

[Letgomyleghoe]

less than a year for my main rig but i have a rig thats still running from ~2005, its slow asf but it works

[Letgomyleghoe]

On 11/10/2020 at 6:19 AM, Ticarus said:

I am still using a Phenom II 955

i have an OG phenom that is in use lmfao i think its the 9550 if i remember right, its got a full 8gb of corsair dominator platinum 800mhz (i forgot cl) ddr2, the rig was hot shit when it was built