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Phenom 2 was from this year, the 4gb of ddr2 was from last year, am2 mobo last year, video card this year, 300gb raptor this year, the 1.5TB drives this year, 500gb drive a few years ago, keyboard early 90s Model M, speakers, some yamaha's I got in the late 90s...
 
Almost 7 years old.

Athlon XP 1700+ T-Bred B overclocked to 2.4ghz
1gb pc3200 DDR
Asus 9600XT Video card
80 gb HD
ABIT NF7 Motherboard
 
components are pushing 6 years (maybe 5--this Feb-March...I think).
--I don't upgrade as I go, b/c once I start, I just end up replacing everything at once.

monitor is about 6 months, now.

strangely enough, I'm now looking to upgrade.... 🙁
 
Bucks said:
Almost 7 years old.

Athlon XP 1700+ T-Bred B overclocked to 2.4ghz
1gb pc3200 DDR
Asus 9600XT Video card
80 gb HD
ABIT NF7 Motherboard
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nice! I thought I was underperforming:

Athlon 64 3500+
1 gb PC 3200 DDR
x800 XL
Asus something or other MB. M32 MVP...or something like that.
 
Custom built desktop. Most of the parts were bought in Jan 2008. Velociraptor was added in about a year ago. RAM was upgraded in August.
 
my desktop is a year old, q6600@3.0ghz, 4gb, 74gb raptor, gtx260 c216, 2408wfp

my laptop is 2 years ish, c2d@2.2ghz, 3gb, 250gb 7200rpm, 8400 gs
 
I'd say roughly a year old. Oldest component is my DVDR, which is probably 2 years old, newest is my 4890, which I bought at launch day.
 
Bought the following for an X48 build in August '08:
Case: Cooler Master Praetorian
CPU: QX9770
MB: GA-X48T-DQ6
Two lots of RAM (the first lot errored a lot with Memtest)
HDD; 1TB
GPU: HD4870 X2

I then bought a bigger case (Lian li PC-A70A) and liquid cooling components last December. Shortly after this, I dropped the CPU on the floor (and killed it) in the New Year when I was re-building the rig for the liquid cooling.

I then waited several months (July/August '09) and bought:
2x 24" Monitors;
A second HD4870 X2; and
New CPU, MB, RAM, 2x HDDs and 1x SSD.

So, basically I bought the components for two high-end computers within a year.
 
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I have several:

1. Mac Mini that I just bought for home theater duty.
2. MacBook Pro (bought June 2007) that I use for general use at home.
3. Homebuilt Core 2 Quad box with 8GB RAM running Vista that I use for gaming (when I am gaming) and general use. This machine is about 6-8 months old or so.
4. Homebuilt Core 2 Duo currently running Linux Mint (it was running Vista also and used for gaming, when I was playing EVE a while back, but it got recently repurposed). This machine is also about 6 months old.
 
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Hmm, I built it around early 2007 I think. Amd Athlon 64 X2 4800 with 2gb ram.

Put an AMD Athlon 4850 in there last summer after my Sapphire Nvidia card died a bad death.
 
It's fascinating that not everyone on one the most advanced tech site in the world doesn't have the latest stuff. Bunch of frugal folk? I have several but little current. I like to buy 1-3 year old tech for economy.
 
CPU - 7 months
CPU Heatsink - 13 months
Motherboard - 1 month
Memory - 4 months
Video Cards - 1 month
DVD-RW Drive - 2 months
Hard Drives - 3 months
Keyboard - 11 months
Mouse - 6 months
Monitor/TV - 13 months
Case - 4 years
 
Purchased Feb. 2008
Mobo:
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe
Cpu:
5200+

Ram:
4gb of G. Skill bought in May this year.

Video Card:
HD4850 Purchaed last month after my 8800 GT bit the big one.

HDD:
1TB WD Caviar Black, purchased in June, finally used in October.
 
the cpu i am using is not even available yet.

:T

Meaning release is ETA in march 2010.

But ive had it for about a month and a half now.

seemingly random said:
It's fascinating that not everyone on one the most advanced tech site in the world doesn't have the latest stuff. Bunch of frugal folk? I have several but little current. I like to buy 1-3 year old tech for economy.
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:X

Well, i was on a 965 b4 i7 launch.
Then i was offered a 975 b4 launch again to play with.
Now im on 32nm gulftown.

So do i count?

I think i hold the top 1 or 2 position on the forum in single processor computation speed.
 
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about 1 year, built in december 2008.

http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.aspx?rigid=35662

seemingly random said:
It's fascinating that not everyone on one the most advanced tech site in the world doesn't have the latest stuff. Bunch of frugal folk? I have several but little current. I like to buy 1-3 year old tech for economy.
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I'm sure the folks in the tech forums would have a slightly different skew, I'd guess ATOT as a whole probably doesn't care as much about cutting edge/overclocking/Current budget gaming rigs as much as the people in the technical forums do.
 
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