[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How old is your computer? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 7/18/2008 4:39:04 PM EDT
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Since the mid-1980's I've been buying new computers every two to three years. Last night I was cleaning up some paper work and came upon the invoice for my current computer - 5 years and two months old! She's running 3 GHz HT, 2 GB of RAM, nVidia 6200, dual 19" LCD screens and 1 TB of hard drive so it's been updated but dang. Got to buy a new one this weekend. So confess ... who else is running a steam powered wooden computer? 
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1 year - [email protected] / 4gb / xppro64 / 8800GT (g92) / 1 x 80GB (os) 3 x 1tb (pr0n) I usually upgrade at a socket change / die shrink. Prolly when the Nahaliem (sp?) hits the shelf is when the next upgrade is going down. |
I have a 3500+ I got a 7900GTX a couple years ago, and added some RAM over the years. It's on it's last leg. It'll play the games I have reasonably well, but I'm going to try to build a sweet rig later this year. |
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I have an AMD 400mhz with 256MB RAM and 10GB HD running Windows 98 and it still works just fine, just slowly. My last laptop was a 1.2 GHZ 512MB RAM 20 GB HD, bought it new in mid 2001, it died in January this year. It got me all the way through college and up till the day it died I never had any trouble with it. In January I bought a new Dell desktop and a new HP laptop, I hope to get half the service life out of these two as I did the last to, if I do I will be satisfied. |
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You know what, as long as it runs what you want to use it for then keep it. If you want to play video games then get a playstation/xbox or whatever. Computers are not worth keeping up when it comes to games. I got screwed when my wife got her ipod stolen. I had to upgrade to XP on my 2.1 ghz computer and have had nothing but problems since. |
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8 years old Systemax Pentium III 700 MHz 768MB RAM 64 MB video card with TV out (lets me watch movies on the TV) it runs Windows XP pro and it works great, most of the time  Computers last longer than they give them credit for. If it works why change it, unless your a gamer, or you have to have the latest tech toy. |
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My desktop at home is a home built system. I got the case in 2006 and had to put a new MB in it late that year. Upgraded the video card to an 8800GT about a year ago, and it's run fine since. Don't need to touch it for now. The portable is a MacBook I got about three months ago. Love it! It will probably last for a while. Seems Moore's law has slowed down a bit. |
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Which one? Enpower 660 Notebook Intel 1.8gb duo core 3gb RAM Vista/XP dual boot Eight months old Enpower 665 Notebook Intel 1.8gb 2gb RAM Vista Six months old Hewlett-Packard HP Vectra VL400 1GB PIII 256MB Ram W2K Ten years old? Bought used in 2001 Dell Dimension Desktop 2.4gb Celeron 1gb RAM W2K Seven years old? Bought used in 2002 |
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so old anything I buy has to be "new" cpu = AMD X2 socket 939 (?) - outdated (no longer made) AGP video - outdated (no longer made) memory - too slow to put into new machine xppro - better than vista but not going to be supported anymore I should just say fuck M$ and stick with linux in x64 |
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I have three Dells. The laptop I'm posting from now is a 3 month old Dell XPS, a wonderful machine with Vista!! I also have an older Dell B130 laptop that is 1 year old, piece of shit. I also have a Dell desktop that is 4 years old, it also works great. Except for the piece of shit B130, the rest of the Dells perform great! |
Yes, I'm always upgrading something too. Just got a 4870, and a pc power and cooling 750 watt PS. Then there is the whole "hand me down" thing where parts taking out of mine trickle down to the kids computers. |
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1. Use to build my own and upgrade approx every three years and replace every six years... 2. The last system I bought off the shelf and took the "better" parts from my own built one it replaced. (Go figure) 3. Current system I built from the ground up.... 6 mths old. Quad Core spunked to a little over 4 GHZ with 4 GB DDR3 1.5 TB RAID w/ 500GB - 10,000RPM Sys Drive and running Dual Video Cards... I plan to keep this sucka till it spits sparks. |
Your box is 5 years old, but have you put anything into it since then? Ram, Video, HDD? Parts of my main PC are 5 years old but most of it is from 4-1 years old. Just means don't go cheap on your mobo. |
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Six year old Dell Dimension 4500. It was originally shipped with 512 MB RAM, a 40 GB HD, and a 2 GHz P4, with an nVidia MX420 video card. Today it's got 2 GB RAM, 200 GB on two HDs, a 3 GHz P4 processor, and an nVidia 7600GS video card, which is pretty much "all the way", darned near as high as the motherboard will support. Video monitor is a 20" true flat Sony trinitron monitor made for Sun Microsystems, and is among the very best monitors ever made, with essentially perfect colorimetry and it will accept resolutions up to QXGA, or 2048x1536. I would not trade this monitor for any flat panel monitor currently in existence. It's still a respectable system. I can play DOOM III at respectably high resolutions with max detail settings and still get a very playable and even smooth framerate. My PC at work is nearly identical except that one has two monitors in a dual head setup. And the monitors are the same type as in the home system. And its hard drive is 500 GB. I have a lifetime contract for free phone support on these machines, from Dell. I've got a much newer Dell XPS 410 desktop machine that I got for free, and it needs a few things to be complete. I think I'll get them. It'll make a pretty respectable dual core machine. I don't mind spending a little to get it up and running since I've got nothing into it now. CJ |