How old is your computer? POLL

[KidKid]

How old is your computer? Mine is 1-2yrs old.

[danalog]

'bout 11 years, but newest component is 5 or 6yo

[KidKid]

Just now, danalog said:

'bout 11 years, but newest component is 5 or 6yo

Good job! My last computer lasted only 4 years before getting a new PC. I see you like HP, too! I have an HP desktop PC.

[GOTSpectrum]

How are we defining age...

I got new mobo, PSU and ram recently, got a 4070ti from when they released, a 2070 I found in the road, a HDD with 60k hours on it... And my case is about a decade old 

[danalog]

Just now, KidKid said:

Good job! My last computer lasted only 4 years before getting a new PC. I see you like HP, too! I have an HP desktop PC.

She still beats the Ryzen 9800x3D in non-SSE4 supported workloads. 

[podkall]

You know that is a philosophical question, right?

[porina]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

I got new mobo, PSU and ram recently, got a 4070ti from when they released, a 2070 I found in the road, a HDD with 60k hours on it... And my case is about a decade old 

I'd personally go with the majority, perhaps weighted more on the more important components. I'd lean towards mobo, CPU, GPU, ram in that order, with the rest as lower priority.

 

Just as long as we don't get to the PC of Theseus  

 

[podkall]

2 minutes ago, porina said:

I'd personally go with the majority, perhaps weighted more on the more important components. I'd lean towards mobo, CPU, GPU, ram in that order, with the rest as lower priority.

 

Just as long as we don't get to the PC of Theseus  

 

My GPU is second hand barely year old.

My HDD is ~2017 kind of old.

[Not A Idiot]

14 minutes ago, KidKid said:

How old is your computer? Mine is 1-2yrs old.

My desktop is new (got it in january), and my laptop is 10 yrs old

[strange13930]

got a prebuilt in September last year but I have two mystery year hdd and a 1060 6gb, and I have a ide hdd from 2004.

[Hinjima]

All components in my system are from 2022 or newer.

[Ha-Satan]

The oldest component in my gaming desktop is the case, which I got 7 years ago. The rest of it is mostly 4-5 year old components.

 

But I voted 9+ because my actual daily driver laptop, which I use for everything except gaming, is 12 years old.

[ewitte]

Depends on the part.  The case is the oldest I got it 11/2018, followed by my watercooling setup.  My drives are like 1 month old, Video card Nov 2022, 6 months for the motherboard, etc

[Tan3l6]

Less than a month. Though regretting a bit - previous 14600KF was a good platform. Current 9800X3D needs a bit training to OC it effectively.

At least Oblivion Remake runs with no performance issues.

 

Oldest component inside being SSD, over a year old.

[ewitte]

2 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

Less than a month. Though regretting a bit - pervious 14600KF was a good platform. Current 9800X3D needs a bit training to OC it effectively.

Not experience enough with recent Intels but Ryzen self-overclocks based on power budget and heat.  You actually LOSE gaming performance if you do a manual OC.  It would make some productivity apps run a lot faster though.  IMO the best thing to do is custom voltage curve and really good cooling then let it take care of itself.

[manikyath]

computer of thesus... in some form it has existed for over 10 years, but most of it has been replaced over the years.

[NumLock21]

Current components that are currently in use are 9+ years old, with my case being a lot older, almost 20. The youngest component in my system is my GPU and PSU. I have much older parts that's way over 20+ but they're not in use anymore. Looking at it, it's crazy how some of the technologies in brand new system of today, already existed way back then, like M.2 drives, people were already using them almost 10 years ago.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

I got the case in 2015. The motherboard is from 2018. Replaced the CPU, RAM and GPU in 2022 with used parts. Also in 2022 got a new PSU and CPU cooler. Don't remember the dates of the drives currently installed. I added a NIC in 2023.

So, 2-10 years, depending on which component defines the "age".

[TetraSky]

Bought my new PC in late 2019, bringing along my old GPU (Radeon HD7970Ghz).

Finally upgraded the GPU in december 2022.

Upgraded from 16GB to 32GB of RAM last month.

 

Planned next upgrade : When AM6 comes out. So 2 to 3 more years I guess.

[BobNobody]

I've "ship of theseus"-ed my computer since 2009 I think. Not a single part on my original PC remains, but at the same time, I only changed out a few parts at a time. At no point was it an entirely new system.

 

Intel core 2 Quad 9450 GTX 9800

upgrade GTX 460, new case

Upgrade AMD FX 6300, killed the 9450 with water

Upgrade GTX 970

Upgrade Intel 7700K new case

Upgrade RTX 2070

Upgrade AMD 5900x new case

Upgrade RTX 4070, 2070 died due to over heating(I think)

 

Over this whole time I was almost always rolling old drives into new systems. I had one power supply for most of it, it had molex WAY past when that was no longer of any use. I had optical drives up until the 7700K.

[DreamCat04]

My whole PC history is:

Samsung "Surface book-like" laptop with Intel 2nd or 3rd gen i5 - ~2 yrs (got used from relative)

Dell Latitude w i5 4310U - ~2yrs (got used from same relative)

Dell G5 5090 w i7 9700 & RTX 2060 - ~1.5yrs with (birthday gift that arrived 2 weeks after lockdown started)

Asus Strix G17 w 10750H, 16GB DDR4, GTX 1660Ti - ~4.5yrs, still have it (bought because away from home for a year)

HP Elitebook X360 830 G6 w i7 10710U, 16GB DDR4 - ~3.5yrs (convertible I got for BYOD at uni, not self-bought)

Upgrade to 32GB

Upgrade PC to RTX 3060Ti - ~1yr (first PC component I bought with my own money lol)

Upgrade gaming laptop to 32GB DDR4

Sell G5, replace with Custom build w i7 12700K, 32GB DDR5, same RTX 3060Ti - ~1yr

upgrade to 4070Ti and 96GB RAM for sharing my GPU with family - til now, planning on keeping as long as possible

Planned upgrade: extra 2TB SSD, current 2TB SSD only has 195GB available lol

ROG Ally w Z1 Extreme - ~1.25yrs
Upgrade Ally to 2TB SSD

All of this makes my gaming laptop the oldest PC related thing I currently own. The oldest tech thing I still own has to be my Nintendo DS that I've now had for over 13 years, the battery still lasts for ~7h of gameplay or so.
 

I'm still relatively new to PCs compared to some people here, I only really got into PCs when I got the Dell G5. I sold the G5 because it was either too loud or too hot. Since I get annoyed quite quickly at sounds that stick out of the average sounds, I wanted something that would truly be quiet and luckily found it with this PC. I can only hear it in games that push my GPU to its max (which currently only Avatar Frontiers of Pandora manages to achieve). Even then, the sounds of the game played through my speakers cover up the fan noises very well. The only upgrade I have in the back of my head would be an OLED monitor, but I'm not ready yet to spend just over 1k on two OLED monitors. I currently have the 24" 1080p 60Hz IPS high response time monitor that came along with the G5 and another Dell 24" 1080p 144Hz TN monitor that I got around a year after I got the G5. I played on 60Hz for way too long lol

[Blasty Blosty]

16 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

a 2070 I found in the road

You lucky son of a gun

[.sky]

The full trajectory for my history are this:
- ASUS X553MA, X45C and one else (forgot model.) X45C and that one else is i3-3110M, but the X553MA use a slightly weaker, but newer Celeron chip. One gone to sibling's hands, one broke, the X553MA is now screenless, keyboardless but mainboard still functions. Can use as a makeshift. It's more than 6-10 years - sister brought the laptop since subsequently 2012-2014 to 2015-2017 or smth else.
- Dell G15 5515 - the reason why I revised the profile. Mobo dead due to a HY100 paste - 4.999.000 VND loss, but all other parts intact, probably alive. Preserved in a shockproof bag in case I stamp on it. 1x256GB SSD and 1x8GB RAM - was upgraded for gaming but failed to deal with the thermals. [overheating lead to thermal anxiety - and it make me buy a 8gr stick of MX-4 after a HY100 fail.] Brought since 2023 (just 2 years old) but dead since 2024 (due to thermal paste use)
- Newly built custom PC built out of the anxiety behind a failed thermal fix - which now booted to life. Parts are many years old, counting a i3-4170 and a HDD, but viable because it was to exempt the twin of Shopee-brought conversion kits (DDR3L to DDR3 kit) and a VSP V2879. Won't count its age for sure because it's several month old total.

Total, I voted 2-3 years old for that.

In the next few months either I could acquire the replacement motherboard for the G15 5515 but I will still blindly move to a PC anyways because a laptop's CPU and GPU silicon need to be soldered naked and else, since HY100 failed to stratify the CPU, I'm afraid that MX-4 can't help so guess there's no choice but to keep learning how to replace the laptop chips' thermal pastes to push down heat and sound while keep building a PC.
Some roadmap leak: I would had built public PCs that was CSM Boot'd from my Intel H510 rig to keep earning from students who would gonna stay in my home for the whole May while still adding a desktop RTX 3050 to an AMD A520 rig.
This leads me into no other fudging choice but to open up a computer shop in a whole village as a side hustle. Dayum.

[X-System]

My last upgrade in 2025 is an used CPU Core i7-8700K (released in 2017) and an used motherboard Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme (released in 2018). So I voted 7-8yr.

[RokinAmerica]

I work from home since Covid, so this one I built in late 2020. It replaced my now backup, a 2016 desktop, as well as my laptop, also from 2016.