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Post by darkpast on Jan 30, 2022 6:01:53 GMT
do you wait for it to die or suck a lot?
my homemade pc is almost a decade old and runs fine , granted i don't play modern video games or render 4k video files, is there a major reason to upgrade now a days?
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Post by GiantFan1980 on Jan 30, 2022 6:13:34 GMT
I've been using this one for about 5 years now, replacing my last PC that blew up as a result of a power outage. I usually keep with a PC until it's Windows program can't be updated anymore or my anti virus subscription becomes incompatible.
I still own my pc towers from 1995, 1997, and 2003. The 2010 PC was the one that died a horrible death from the power going out. Luckily the back up hard drive didn't take the hit so I was able to unplug it from that machine and have it installed in this one.
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Post by darkpast on Jan 30, 2022 6:58:33 GMT
I've been using this one for about 5 years now, replacing my last PC that blew up as a result of a power outage. I usually keep with a PC until it's Windows program can't be updated anymore or my anti virus subscription becomes incompatible. I still own my pc towers from 1995, 1997, and 2003. The 2010 PC was the one that died a horrible death from the power going out. Luckily the back up hard drive didn't take the hit so I was able to unplug it from that machine and have it installed in this one. i had times when pc died over power outage, but it was just psu that needed to be replaced, always check that before replacing everything
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Post by Sarge on Jan 30, 2022 7:50:48 GMT
I had the same motherboard for about a decade but made incremental updates during that time, cpu, memory, ssd. Finally gave in and built a new one just before covid, good timing. In the early days, it was about every 2 years, but after I quit playing games upgrading wasn't necessary as often.
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Post by GiantFan1980 on Jan 30, 2022 8:04:49 GMT
I've been using this one for about 5 years now, replacing my last PC that blew up as a result of a power outage. I usually keep with a PC until it's Windows program can't be updated anymore or my anti virus subscription becomes incompatible. I still own my pc towers from 1995, 1997, and 2003. The 2010 PC was the one that died a horrible death from the power going out. Luckily the back up hard drive didn't take the hit so I was able to unplug it from that machine and have it installed in this one. i had times when pc died over power outage, but it was just psu that needed to be replaced, always check that before replacing everything That's exactly what happened. Took the unit to Staples and when they opened it up they said it had about 7 years worth of lint and dust and crap all gummed up inside the fan motor and all over the circuit board of the psu. The power surge/outage was just the final straw that stressed it out. They said it wasn't worth replacing and recommended this Dell Inspiron unit.
I was kinda on the spot for a new machine at the time so I let them do their thing with some modifications I requested. Took them 3 weeks to get the damn thing set up right because the fan motor that came with the new PC couldn't cool the unit properly because it was designed around a 1 hard drive PC model, not 2.
Not exactly my favorite machine of all time because of all the stupid false positives on the maintenance checks, but at the time my go to Mom and Pop computer shop had closed up and retired.
Never was any good and building my own PC so I am kinda limited in trouble shooting when the hardware farts out. Luckily this new shop has been doing this stuff since the mid 90's and they can build you any tower you want if you got the money.
What pissed me off about Staples is that they seemed put off when I asked them about installing a 2nd hard drive and they were trying to sell me on that online cloud drive crap! Trying to tell me I only needed one drive for the PC and the rest could be saved on an online account.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2022 2:55:22 GMT
Not here for a Mac vs PC debate… I’m set in my ways. But I’m still using my 2009 27” iMac and it is still going strong (considering) if that tells you anything . I lost track of when it last did an OS update (10. Something… still does security updates though). It’s obviously can’t keep up with modern video editing software etc but every day task still work fine. I pulled the trigger last week on a 16” M1 pro MBP… leaving Shanghai today and says it will be here in calif on Wednesday  . Ordered mine with a Danish keyboard so no local stock obviously. Going to be an insane upgrade 😁. |
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Post by jackspicer on Feb 21, 2022 5:51:15 GMT
Till they die. My 2011 Lenovo Thinkpad Edge (2.1GHz CPU, 4GB RAM, Windows 10) is still my main computer.
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Post by Catman on Feb 21, 2022 13:13:48 GMT
Catman usually waits until software he needs to use says it won't work anymore.
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Post by rizdek on Mar 12, 2022 15:35:50 GMT
The last computers I built from new components were in 2015....built two, one for me one for my wife. I installed win 10 on them. They both work well and I have no intention of upgrading just for the sake of upgrading. We really don't do much with them other than access the internet and such mundane things as taxes and some video/photo/image editing. They work fine for that. Not sure what I'll do when Win10 is no longer supported such that I can't access the internet from a desk top. I'll probably go for a laptop with Win [whatever] for my wife and switch over to Mint Linux for me and keep the old one(s) running.
I have various and sundry other old computers...a laptop with windows xp 3 laptops with Mint Linux and two older desktops I cobbled together, one runs xp, one runs Win7.
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. Ordered mine with a Danish keyboard so no local stock obviously. Going to be an insane upgrade 😁. 
