How old is your current desktop PC?
2You know. If you still have one.
I’m honestly curious about this because I spent lots of time on 386/486s clones.
Even when we had better hardware you could blow the dust off one to lan and play age of empires 2 in someone’s basement.
Convinced my dad to buy an AMD K6 Compaq . They were acceptable at the time.
Assembled/maintained P3 at school.
Bought AMD when Intel was getting its ass kicked cause P4. Barton. Overclocking was real
My current/previous was a phenom x2 550. BUT it unlocked to a phenom x4. In 2010. It lasted 14 years/finally the ASUS ROG or it just threw in the towel.
I bought a new ryzen 5 board and 78003d. Memory. My GPU is NOT 14 years old. 5700 is fine. I still need to do Witcher three. PSU cause it’s been at least 10 years on that. SSD. Parts
I’ve had them sitting here a month and I can’t be arsed to click pieces together…
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Dell XPS 8700 64-bit O/S, with an Intel Core i7-4790 processor, still running Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1. Looks like I purchased it in 2014.
My new computers are a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Minisforum UM790 Pro.
Mine is about 8 years old, but it was a build to order so most, if not all, of the insides have been replaced at some point, including the mother board and CPU, most recently clean and update (was the CPU) was about 6 months ago. I love my cherry red tower. You will pry it from my cold dead hands
it does not have a fancy CPU but it does the job. I also have a less than 6 mos old ASUS ROG laptop.
@Cerridwyn What case? Cherry red is cool.
@blaineg NZXT Phantom 410 Red Mid-Tower Case
And since I found the specs for it it was ordered in early 2015 so it’s 9 years old
Which part? It’s the computer of Theseus. The case may be the newest, the old Corsair “Stormtrooper” case looked cool, but had no USB 3 ports, or much support for 2.5" drives, so I replaced it with a boring black slab from Phanteks.
@blaineg The CPU is an ancient (in computer time) GTX 1070, but still runs my games fine. Z390 MB, and i9-9900, so no Win 11 without hijinks. Loads of RAM that only gets fully used when I let Chrome’s tabs get out of control (always).
@blaineg Now do you want to talk about the server, the NAS, the NUCs, or Pi’s?
I’ve been half-heartedly considering this one, just because it’s so darn cute.
https://www.amazon.com/GMKtec-Nucbox5-Desktop-Computer-Windows/dp/B0B75PT2RY/
I build a new gaming rig ever three or four years. I built my current one about 3 years ago when the Gen12 i9 dropped. It’s running at 5.2Ghz with 64Gb of DDR5 RAM. Water cooled. I’m a dork. My previous rig was handed down to my daughter (with some upgrades) and it can still play Icarus. So we game a bit when she’s not doing softball things. My previous, previous rig is about 10 years old but still works well as an arcade machine. Also still rocking an Apple IIe. I’m not even sure how many computers are in my house, but I’d say at least a dozen.
The desktop where I’m sitting is a refurb W7 box bought around 2010 (I think). It’s shortly going to be replaced by a W10 Ryzen box I built in 2017. I don’t do gaming, so I have old-school 19" monitors.