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I built mine in August 2008. Also built an identical one for a friend at the same time. Now I'm considering buying the exact same parts to build a third for a home theatre system.
 
My PC just sort of evolves. Over the years all of the parts and case have changed many times, but it's always been a constant upgrade cycle of the first PC I built over 10 years ago.
 
Built December 2007, just dropped in a new CPU this weekend and moved the q6600 over to my video machine where it will be much more useful.
 
case-at least 6 yrs old(cheiftec dragon)
psu-<1yr
cpu<1yr
1 hdd>4 yrs
2hdd<1yr
mem<1yr
mainboard~1yr
keyboard>5yr
monitor 1.5yrs
mouse 1.5yrs
optical~ 1yr
spk~4yrs
 
My main laptop is approaching 5 years old (original OS install still). My other laptop is 7 years old. When all the gaming I do dates to the mid 90's, I don't need to upgrade that often.
 
My main system is always changing. i haven't built a main system all at once for many years now.
 
A bit over 2 years old. I've replaced several parts since then, but the motherboard/RAM/processor/PSU/HDD are that old.
 
just upgraded cpu, motherboard ram last year (E8400 IP35-Pro and 8 gigs of DDR2)
DVD Burner - 1 year old
PSU is about 3 years old
Sound card about 3 years old
Oldest hard drive is about 3 years old
newer hard drives are still pretty new
GFX Card about 1.5 years old
Case is about 9 months old

I plan on keeping this configuration for a while, or at least i hope...
 
I've been building and using my new i7 system for ~2 months, but I still use my 2.5-3 year old system more I think. Of course if we're talking about origins, that older system is probably 7-8 years old, eventually having every part replaced.
 
Mine's about 9 years old. I may have the oldest.

It's a lappie I got in 2000, has WinME on it 🙂

CPU is pentium 3 at 650 mhz.

Everybody else (family and office PCs) are all newer (of course). Last one I built was a few months ago for my son (he games all the times).

Fern
 
I built my current PC in April 08, so it is a year old. My laptop is an Inspiron 9300 from August 2005.

I try to upgrade my desktop PC's main components (CPU and motherboard) every 3 years, with a graphic card upgrade right in the middle of the PC's lifecycle. However, that upgrade cycle is really getting hard for me to justify as I am playing fewer and fewer games on the PC.

I guess that I am hoping to push the next upgrade cycle out to 4 or 5 years, which would be the 2012 or 2013. I love PC hardware and I'm a geek at heart, but it is hard to justify spending money on something that won't really benefit you all that much, especially since I got married and have other things to spend it on. 😀

As far as my oldest component currently in use -- I have an HP Scanjet 5P from 1997 that is still connected. I have a few older components that I've kept for other purposes -- in case of component failures or to troubleshoot issues with, such as my 1995 era, 2 MB PCI Matrox Millennium.

 
Originally posted by: blanghorst
I built my current PC in April 08, so it is a year old. My laptop is an Inspiron 9300 from August 2005.

I try to upgrade my desktop PC's main components (CPU and motherboard) every 3 years, with a graphic card upgrade right in the middle of the PC's lifecycle. However, that upgrade cycle is really getting hard for me to justify as I am playing fewer and fewer games on the PC.

I guess that I am hoping to push the next upgrade cycle out to 4 or 5 years, which would be the 2012 or 2013. I love PC hardware and I'm a geek at heart, but it is hard to justify spending money on something that won't really benefit you all that much, especially since I got married and have other things to spend it on. 😀

As far as my oldest component currently in use -- I have an HP Scanjet 5P from 1997 that is still connected. I have a few older components that I've kept for other purposes -- in case of component failures or to troubleshoot issues with, such as my 1995 era, 2 MB PCI Matrox Millennium.
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i'm quickly losing my desire to keep up the viscious cycle. at this point, its throwing money into a pit that depreciates worse than a chrysler.

my computer i had built 3 years ago probably could have been kept till today and still have been good enough for everything i did. that was an athlon 64 x2 4200+
 
As with many others, various parts are older. The case is the oldest thing in mine (besides the front case fan). Aside from that, the majority of my components are <3 months old.
 
Originally posted by: Razgriz
My main PC is my laptop which I got Feb 2008, so about 14 months.
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Same here. My gaming box is 2 years old now, though, and desperately needs a new graphics card! Poor thing only has a GeForce 8600 in it.
 
Just got a new 4850 x2 video card.

CPU/RAM/MOBO/24" Monitor/320gb Velociraptor are a few months old (Athlon 5000+ Black edition clocked at 3ghz)
 
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