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How long has your computer lasted?

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i usually go 5 years with a vc upgrade or 2 in between. my last computer was a p4 3.0 that lasted from fall '03 to summer '09.

built my current rig in 09 and will probably be upgrading the video card when the next generation comes.
 
In its current incarnation it will be three years old in July. I've changed a few things (video card, drop-in CPU upgrade), but its still the same motherboard, RAM and hard drive.

X4 980 BE
GTX 460 1GB
WD 640GB HD
8GB of PC10666 RAM
560W PS
1680x1050 monitor

Pretty basic system, but it still plays the RPGs I like well enough. I bought a house a year after I built it - my days of spur-of-the-moment PC hardware buying are over!
 
Can't believe my i7 920 rig is already 3 years old (for the most part - only the SSD, vid card and sound card are younger). Still feels brand new to me 😵

Prior to that, the E6600 rig (965P-DS3 Rev 1.0 !) lasted about 3.5 years.
 
built on Nov 2007 ,,, same rig still and I love it!!! no reason to upgrade when it does all I want it to without going to 100 percent and slowing down...

games take avg 40 to 60 percent CPU power. gl
 
I literally just retired a Pentium 4 from 2003. It's an ibuypower build.

It still works, the motherboard fan won't spin, and it's filled with dust and cat hair, and had to be cleaned out of rat shit one time.

This computer is a tank. I'm going to keep it, I think it's just going to be one of those computers that for some reason never burns out. My shit hits the fan computer.
 
had a asus v2a-vm mobo, installed a 3800x2 on it, then a 5000x2, then last upgrade was a athlon II 640 to it, lasted me 4 years or so, i believe. Now i have a 2600k 🙂
 
futurefields said:
I literally just retired a Pentium 4 from 2003. It's an ibuypower build.

It still works, the motherboard fan won't spin, and it's filled with dust and cat hair, and had to be cleaned out of rat shit one time.

This computer is a tank. I'm going to keep it, I think it's just going to be one of those computers that for some reason never burns out. My shit hits the fan computer.
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That's . . . really old . . . . sooner or later, something will give out -- the power-supply, the motherboard . . . who can tell?

Among our five machines here, we have a P4 3.4 Ghz built around 2005. It only has certain uses -- as a file server and a workstation for scanning/printing.

I've kept machines for as long as 8 years: a 486 system (became a file server and then discarded), and a Pentium (same fate). But lately, we discard the machines that are at least four years old if there isn't some use for it.
 
Only recently replaced an old secondary but still occasionally used XP1800+ system with the E5200. I just checked Wikipedia and it says the 1800+ was released in 2001... damn! That computer did eventually need a new PSU, but when it came time to replacing my E5200, I just couldn't see a reason to keep the old 1800+ around anymore.

The only part I can recall ever failing is a 2GB Seagate hard drive (purchased for over $200 at the time!)

Oh, and more recently 60GB OCZ Vertex2 which got RMA'd. Otherwise it's been smooth sailing with computers, I must say on the most part they are damn reliable.
 
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