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How old are your rigs, how much can they take.
Currently using my old machine(5 years) and I am thinking on how long can it actually last anymore?
Been using mine since 2008, so 8 years.
As long as you back up your stuff on your hard drive, you can go ahead and run that thing into the ground.
>tfw hypocrite for not backing up
>>53955025
I am not worried about the data, more about the hardware, the cpu, graphics and other components in it
12 years, but since I bought a laptop in 2009 I didn't use it. I might format windows xp and install lxle, or just upgrade the hardware
>tfw when I fell for the 256MB ram
>tfw not contributing to thread
>>53954860
CPU is 4 y/o, mobo is 3 y/o, GPU is 4 y/o, PSU is 6 y/o, CPU heatsink is 6 or 7 y/o, oldest hard drive is almost 10 y/o.
I'm planning for big upgrade when the Zen will come out, depending on it's actual performance and pricing it might be Intel tho.
>>53954860
What do you mean by "how long can it actually last"?
This thing's 20 years old, got way older shit in storage. Computers last a long time if properly taken care of, and even if they're not.
Usability wise? Depends on what you do with it, my daily drivers vary from 15 to 5 years old. If it weren't for the internet you could use shit even further back.
Still rocking my build from 2012; 4 years old and running just fine 2500k and GTX 670. Upgraded RAM to 16GB for all the VMs and shit I run.
10-11 years.
>>53955957
nice calculator
>>53955957
Why even run Windows on that thing? You're obviously not gaming on it. Linux would be a lot better.
here's my speccy
>>53954860
My computer is 6 years old but I see no reason to build a new one at this time as the i7 can handle most anything I run. I upgraded the video card to a GTX 960. Thought about SSD but will wait as my mobo has 3 MB/s SATA, the 6 MB/s were just coming out back then. Maybe if my system drive dies.
I'm using my 4-5 years old i3 2120 build.
I'm going to keep using it until it melts.
>>53956781
fuck off
>>53956781
DISGUSTING
>>53957195
my hardware is older than yours. i am cooler than you.
>>53957057
I meant SATA II 3 GB/s not MB.
My first computer was the Atari 400 with membrane keyboard and cassette tape drive. Centipede and Frogger for days,good times.
>>53957207
sup whore xoxo
>>53957207
>implying that's not a VM
>how stupid do you think we are
>>53957384
> getting IRIX to work in a virtual machine
this is just not possible, anon
>>53957325
sup : (
Built in 2001, still on today.
>>53957415
why are you sad babe
>>53954860
I've got a 2008 iMac. After upgrading it with a 240GB SSD and 6GB RAM I've never had any issues with it, probably going to upgrade to a new computer soon just because I've had this long enough
>>53957475
Is this your main PC? I had one about the same age running when my main PC was being repaired and I could hardly do anything on it, it was so slow
>>53957306
>I meant SATA II 3 GB/s not MB.
Gbps. For SATA it's bits, not bytes. Theoretical max in MB would be 300 MB, roughly 1/3rd of a GB.
>My first computer was the Atari 400 with membrane keyboard and cassette tape drive. Centipede and Frogger for days,good times.
Ahhh...cassette drives. I was pretty young, but I remember one of those on muh C64. Pac Man, Centipede, Radar Rat Race, Dig Dug...those were cartridges though. Only thing I ever did with the Datasette is load/store short BASIC programs.
>>53954860
I'm still using my 2008 compaq laptop. After 2GB RAM upgrade, battery replaced and lcd replacement later, it's still going strong
>>53954860
>>Currently using my old machine(5 years)
>old
>5 years
my HP Compaq 6710b is laughing at you
except the battery, it's pretty comfy
Almost hitting the one year anniversary.
>Titan X SLi
>5930k
>MSI X99 Krait
>32GB GSkill DDR4
>>53954860
don't even know how old mine is, got it refurbished for cheap, but it's one of those older c2d machines
thinkcenter from 2003
still werks, upgraded to where the specs are just good enough to shitpost on ubuntu
>>53954860
Just retired a rig I made in 08, core 2 duo, 4 gigs of ram, some shitty gfx card to replace the first one that burned itself out. Thing had blown caps and everything and just kept working. Protip, don't skimp on fans.
>>53959407
back to /v/ with your gayming machine
I'd say 30 years is pushing it, I can't find any working MFM hard drives for an IBM PC-XT and I think the CGA monitor is going out too (loses vertical hold).
If you replace the storage with solid state, clean and lubricate the fans and disk drive motors, and change leaking caps and clock batteries before the corrosion eats the traces right off your board, you might be able to make it 50 years.
>>53954860
Build a new one before it dies, mine was 6 years old when it died a few weeks ago.
>>53955957
I have one exactly like that
>>53956721
>running bloated modern shit on some shitty lightweight distro it instead of the software it was designed to run on a fully featured operating system
>>53957384
>IRIX
>on a VM
is /g/ really this fucking dumb?
>>53960300
where do you live? is it wet/humid there or dry?
I have two XTs, two clones, a Mac Plus, a couple PS/2s and a lot of other pretty early systems and their drives work just fine, but I've always wondered if it was because I live in a desert where there isn't as much moisture or otherwise inclement environmental conditions to fuck with electronics
My PC is from 06. Upgraded the cpu in 2007 to a 2Ghz core2duo. Will get a new skylake (either an i7-6700K or the vanilla version... probably vanilla) build next week. Zen is too far away baka.
>>53954860
My rig is 9 years old.Still runs very good.
Parts that have been upgraded are-
Replaced 512 mb ram with 2 gb.
Replaced psu with 450W psu 1 year back.
Replaced 80 gb hdd with 1tb hdd.
As for the future upgrades-
I plan to get Core 2 Duo E4700 (as it is the best cpu supported),a 64/128/256 gb ssd(can reuse it on future system also),a new uatx/atx case(with usb3 ports,can reuse in future),maybe a new air cooler for overclocking,and a gpu.
Rest of the components(monitor) are good enough for me ,ram is max supported already.
The only thing i can't figure out is what gpu to get,even after researching a lot.
Till now i have decided to get nvidia (less power draw than amd) that can be powered solely by pcie (only 450w cheap psu) and has vram ~1gb(mobo has pcie 2.0 x16 @ x4 mode ). After this i get confused as to what model to get.
Do i get a 600/700/900 series one so that i can reuse it in future ,probably 5/10 years later?(can't probably afford it)
Or do i get a used 100/200/400 series one ?
My target is ~60 fps nfs mw 2005 at medium/high settings on 1280x1024.Currently i get 10-20 fps at 640x480.
Any advice would be appreciated.
>>53958186
I'm using an Athlon XP right now. I can still do most of the things I want to with this machine. Hardware acceleration is extremely important obviously.
>>53954860
still got an xp shit box running and a vista machine
Where are my penryn bros
>>53956781
>comcast.net.net
>>53956781
never seen that OS before
I've never had a PC go bad on me.
I usually sell them after 3-4 years though.
My wife has a Sony Vaio from 2008 that still works well, I upgraded the ram from 2gb to 4gb though.
>>53954860
This is sad.
The only thing that could make me upgrade in a near future is Bannerlod, since I don't give a fuck about any other upcoming games and I don't need much power for my job.
>>53965415
ayyyyyyyyyyyyy
I just bought Pentium MMX machine from 1996 from friend of mine. Says its fully working with w98. Paid 5 € for him from AC adapter he bought for it. He was gonna throw it in SER.
>>53965454
560Ti strong.
Are those temps normal for you?
>>53954860
p3 still running strong.
Dos based craptastic 486 machine.
pentium 4 I burned up another processor on last week. I literally have a drawer full of p4s.
I have a server that's been running 24/7 for 12 years.
Current rig is 3 months old still working out the little shit.
Entertainment rig in the living room is 3 years old
Storage bank pc is 7 years old.
Still use a 100 base 24 port ethernet switch for the non heavy use pcs.
I've also got an old toshiba laptop circe 1992ish.
>>53965605
What do you use the P3 for?
I wonder if I could get away with using mine on a daily basis.
I've had my Acer laptop since the beginning of 2010. Besides needing a CPU replacement (First gen i5 quadcore), never had a problem with it; still plays recent games fairly well on minimum settings too.
Dell XPS l502x, shipped 2011 September.
It's bretty gud.
>>53965638
I wouldn't. It's so fucking slow compared to even my p4 machine. I would put windows 2000 on it and call it good. I'm using xp on mine and it's crap. It's even got the maximum supported 1gb of sdram. That shit is hard to source now.
>>53965579
Pretty much yeah
>>53965712
>1GB of RAM
You're lucky. If I'm not wrong mine had 512mb, but I remember using XP on that thing. It had ME at first and that shit was a nightmare.
>>53965757
Yeah. ME was a giant clusterfuck. I used it for a time back when I was poor in the early 2000s. Then I went to 2000 and it was like holy fuck.
I think mine around 8 years old.
My rig still feels responsive enough, especially since I take extra care to avoid bloating my OS. And gaming was okay until the new console generation. Now I've been thinking of getting a 6700k just cause they seem solid and I like round numbers.
7 years old TP X200s
Gonna buy one of those:
>>53957953
because they look comfy and I don't need anything more powerful
>>53954860
i7-920 @ 3.94 GHz
DX58S0 Motherboard
212 Evo
12GB DDR3 @1166 triple channel
R9 270 @ 1050 MHz
Runs current AAA titles just fine at 1080p 60hz. Believe it or not, the newest component (the GPU) is still the thing holding it back. I wish I had sprung for an R9 280 at the time.
>>53967921
Oh, and this rig is from 2009, so 7 years old and still going strong.
Should I do it?
I already have a box, my current power supply supplies several hundred more watts than I need for this build, and I already have 2 hard drives.
>>53954860
I've got an Epson Equity I, love it. Need to find a hard drive for it.
>>53965638
>>53965712
I used a Pentium 4 1300 with 2K in 2014-2015 pretty much daily, choked a little on the occasional over-animated site but otherwise was quite alright
Considering an early NetBurst chip is about equivalent to or bested by a ~900MHz+ PIII for most general use in everything but SIMD, you could probably get away with it, though it will probably be a little painful unless you're running fast RDRAM.
Got an E-Machines T-3120 that is coming on 10 years old. I fucked up the HD about 8 years ago (don't ask) and so replaced it with a Seagate and it runs just fine. I use it primarily for older games and as a storage dump.
>>53954860
I still use an Atari 1040 STF, no problems here.
>>53968000
No, change the gpu for a 380
>>53954860
this computer is almost 9 years old
I have broken laptops in my room that are from around 2000 or earlier that I've had for probably about 10 years
I also have some computers I don't use that are quite old and some really old very basic PDAs from the early to mid 2000s (I assume all of those computers and PDAs work, I haven't used the computers at all and I haven't used the PDAs in ages)
>>53969978
Looks fucking sweet man.
Old OSes on high res screens look absolutely mint
