Poll: How old is your current PC?

[sonoma1993]

mine about 2 1/2 years old or so.

 

[Raduque]

My CPU, Motherboard and RAM were purchased the same year Vista came out. 2005 maybe? My GPU is only a couple years old. Paid $170 for it (3870) if that helps date it.

My laptop is from April of this year.

 

[Kaervak]

IBM Thinkpad T43, just over three years old. Dell Inspiron 8200, just over seven years old.

My T43 was a recent upgrade.

 

[BabaBooey]

2 1/2 yr. old HP A6077C desktop...

 

[Jawo]

Just build a new one in May off the AMD Phenom II X4. Previously my main rig was a AMD 64 3000+ built July 2005.

 

[Squisher]

A few months. I built a Core2 duo on the cheap after going 7 years between builds.

I couldn't take the choppiness of the picture from my TV tuner card every time I watched a Youtube video at the same time.

 

[Brainonska511]

About 3.5 years old as of the middle of this month.

 

[IGBT]

this is my latest build. it has a e6600 conroe at stock speed so go figure.

 

[ElFenix]

the computer i game on has an opteron 165 (nearly 4 years old) with similar vintage board and ram. video card is a 4870 from earlier this year, along with a new corsair power supply to run it. case is a p180.

the computer i'm typing on has a c2q 8200 from about a year ago with crappy ECS board from the fry's combo (i'd switch them but i do video conversion on this one and the power draw is probably lower at idle, and the board sucks). it's got a no-name brown box power supply from several years back that jonnyguru rated quite highly. it's got a 7300LE video card because the onboard graphics of the previous motherboard sucked nuts. case is a generic antec style minitower. it'll get moved into the P180 whenever i get around to building a new comp (already have a P183 for the new stuff).

monitor for both is a dell 2005. i just switch inputs back and forth as needed. kvm for the mouse and keyboard.

i bet less than 10 people actually read this. i'm such a nef.

 

[grrl]

Most of the guts are 3 years old, bought a new scanner, printer and monitor last summer (those were about 8 years old).

 

[hiromizu]

Optiplex GX280. It's a P4 with HT. I don't game but it is getting rather pokey these days.

 

[adairusmc]

About two months for my desktop machine. Six months for my laptop.

I only bought the laptop because I needed a new one, but I build a new desktop PC every single year, around October-November.

 

[dennilfloss]

Various parts are different ages.

This. CPU+Mobo+Ram are from summer 2009. Vidcard from January 2009. Rest is older.

 

[dighn]

~ 1.5 years

 

[octopus41092]

My desktop has parts of varying ages. The oldest part would have to be... the CPU and Mobo, about 3 years?

My laptop I got in June.

 

[BudAshes]

I still use the first case I got with my first computer I built 6-7 years ago. This Coolermaster aluminum case was expensive but well worth it as I really like its simple brushed aluminum look. Everything else changes every couple years though.

 

[chin311]

1.5 years

 

[DangerAardvark]

Almost exactly 2 years. Every 2-3 years I suddenly become interested computer hardware and build a new PC, then lose all interest in computer parts for 2 years.

 

[dwell]

It's in a constant state of flux.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Built my current rig this past June.

Core2Quad, 4GB of RAM, ATI 4850 1GB, Blu-Ray...all that.

(I was too cheap for Core i7.)

 

[sandorski]

CPU/Motherboard--4-5 years old, getting a little angsty about it, half expect the Mobo to pack it in someday. Have plans to Upgrade in Spring.

Vid card---4 months
Power Supply---2 months
Ram-Just over 1 year
HDs vary, a few years older than CPU/Mobo to about 1 year newer
Case Approx 7 years
Monitor 8-10 years(lost track)

 

[Bignate603]

About 4 years now. I'm thinking that it's time for an upgrade. This one still works well enough that I'll probably connect it to my TV and use it to stream netflix and hulu.

 

[meltdown75]

Nov 2004

power supply, vid card and HD in there are newer

still rockin my original XP pro install from the build

i'm building a SFF PC eventually, micro ATX board in a thermaltake lanbox lite case.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

i7 CPU, intel dx58so mobo, 6gb corsair ram, coolermaster case, ocz ssd, all from this year. Evga gtx280 and antec power supply from 2008. I'm good for another year or so. Also still running 32 bit vista (I know I can only use 3gb of my ram).

 

[BoomerD]

An aggregate of parts of differing ages.
The case is 6 years old, (built in 2003) the mobo and processor were upgraded in 2005, (still socket 478 p4) the video card (AGP) was replaced at the same time. The floppy drive is about 12 years old as is the zip 250 drive.

It's definitely time for a rebuild, but don't really want to dump $800-$1000 into doing it right.