How long do you keep your rig before you replace EVERYTHING?

[SPG]

whenever I want to/need to

[Zayzo]

when everything breaks. i don't have enough money to be going around "renewing my pc subscription" every couple years.

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[DrtyDiesel]

Once every year or so. When new stuff comes out I like to upgrade then. If the new cpus won't work in my motherboard then I build a whole new system. I eventually get tired of looking at the case and decide it's time for a new build.

[KE2012]

I never replace everything at once, but it will probably be 3-4 years before every component has been replaced and nothing of my old machine is left, but saying that my old parts will probably go into other machines. 

[Murdoch]

I usually upgrade GPU about once every two years. Everything else it just depends, it can take 6 years + before all the components are completely out of my system.

[MechEdge]

I've always replaced the entire PC every 2/3 years. But now I bought higher end parts that I think will last longer than that (CPU, motherboard, PSU, SSD), so I just need to replace the GPU when I don't get the performance I want or add another HDD if I need more space.

[KemoKa]

The idea with my machines is that I don't replace everything at once. I wait until something comes out that warrants an upgrade for my machine. Then and only then do I upgrade. If someone comes to me with an old Corsair case and sells it to me, I'll take it. I usually buy used, because so far nothing I have seen has warranted an upgrade. AMD's GPUs from two years ago are still toe-to-toe with Nvidia's newer cards. I'll not upgrade until my GPU can't max anything out at 1080p.

[Bhav]

Well I'm still using a Rampage III Extreme and I7 980 mildly OCed and undervolted to 3.5 Ghz / 1.175v for 24/7 use.

Everything else, other than the ram has been upgraded lots.

I remember cyber betting people in 2011 that my shiny new I7 980 will be good enough for everything until at least 2020 (unless it dies). None of them would believe me, yet so far I am winning!

Gogo super amazing gulftown.

[Monkey Dust]

Depends how rich I'm feeling, my last rig did about 8 years so not very.

[Bhav]

I was also thinking of upgrading to Skylake and the thing that Nvidia are working on to replace PCI-R, but I also want to keep my X58 as long as it will last for, so Im not going to get skylake anymore.

[Delusional Phil]

Still on my Athlon II that's 7 years old

Oh my god ... Me too ... We should be saving buddies  :lol:

[Ekpyrosis]

I keep it for at least 36 months(a year and a half) with upgrades.

Last time I checked, 36 months were actually 3 years.

[TheConverter]

Atleast 5 years.

 

My motherboard,cpu,ram, two 1TB hdd's are currently 4.5 year old.

 

The only new parts are new case, new psu, new graphics card (R9 290 and now 980Ti) and a SSD back in 2012.

 

That new case and PSU wouldn't be needed if I got something better when bought my first PC.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Four years when I have been a PC gamer, 7 years when I have been a console gamer. I'm not including case and power supply though, I usually keep those about 7 years.

[TacticlTwinkie]

Well, my track record has been about every 8 or so years I completely replace my pc. But I do upgrade it along the way.

[arnavvr]

Never, I will always reuse some of the parts.

 

I do the same.

[shadowblitz3]

mines at 3 years and the one before that 7 years

[Psykomantis00]

When I can no longer play games on high at a decent framerate. Now that I play in 4k I've had to settle for sub 60fps for max everything but I get a consistent 40-75. I'll probably have this rig for a while. Might upgrade the motherboard ram and CPU down the line but this titan X should last a couple years. 

[RollinLower]

i never really replace a whole system at a time. i only upgrade certain components when they start to show their age.

next upgrade: probably GPU or monitor.

[flibberdipper]

I just kinda upgrade as I go...

 

Oh my god ... Me too ... We should be saving buddies   :lol:

You guys and that other dude that has a Sempron 145.

[SkywardKkalox]

Till it gives up by itself.

[Sauron]

My main rig is a running process. I'll upgrade what needs to be upgraded. Eventually I'll end up with completely different parts than what I started with, but it won't be all at once.

 

What the heck is a NetBurst?

 

The architecture used in the pentium 4 lineup. It allowed for frequencies that where unheard of at the time, but due to the incredibly long pipeline it ended up being a terrible idea. Current FX cpus suffer from a similar problem.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Mine just keeps evolving. 

 

I replaced the case and all case fans in March this year, replaced the PSU last year when I added a graphics card, replaced the motherboard and graphics card 2 years ago, etc etc. 

 

The CPU and RAM are still from the last time I started from scratch, which is close to 4.5 years ago. 

They'll probably be replaced together with the graphics cards, because an upgrade to those will need a beefier CPU.  The i5-2500 is overclocked already and can barely feed the factory overclocked MSI 770s.

[Ruostunut kokis]

I'll just upgrade what I can, and once it becomes too old, system overhaul. It will happen once there's enough money though, which will take a year or two.

 

To give an example: my former rig had a Pentium D, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, HD4350, a PSU with no additional power for graphics card, plus a gimmicky motherboard and case. Then built my first rig with sort-of recent components, and won't expect another overhaul until everything is too old to be re-usable, so I'll just upgrade what is necessary. For example I don't consider 2600K to be "too old", plus it's enough for my needs, so will stick with it.

[NumLock21]

Don't replace everything, just the parts that's broken. Some parts cannot be carried over like my IDE DVD burner when I upgraded to X99, so I had to grab a SATA drive. To toss everything away and buy everything new, while some of your old parts are still working is just stupid.