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I built my main computer all the way back in 2011. I can't believe it's been that long. And I just don't see any reason to upgrade. We have sort of reach a point where for most people, the benefits aren't going to be that great for the money spent. Being that this is a Bitcoin forum, and people here mine, etc. How often does the average person here upgrade their computer?

If you want the best stuff you gotta upgrade in a 1 or 2 year cycle.

Yes, but I have an i7 3770k, with 16GB of ram, an SSD and I don't mine. The computer runs beyond smoothly. It doesn't seem like it would be worth upgrading. I wouldn't be surprised, since I don't play games anymore, if I'm still using this computer in ten years.

I did have a pair of r9 290x back when I used to mine.

My main computer is 2 years old. I used my previous computer for 7 years, until the graphics card could not keep up with modern software.
It is not fast, but runs smooth with SSD.

One and a half.

I used my old laptop more than 5 years, so i guess 5 years is their lifespan. I don't do heavy stuff on my computer and rarely play games so i don't replace my computer in every 2 years like most people here.

Couldn't you just upgrade your GPU?

my computer is old enough to be thrown away out of the window. but i kept using it, its slower to kept using windows system still and so i installed lightweight linux system such as mint and so it works well now.  it a waste to throw it as it still work so its good. after all i just use it for office works.

That used to be me, always looking to upgrade, but most changing graphics cards CPU and RAM, that was the best to do imo these days its out of the question.

I am now stuck with a five year old computer, that has seen better days, graphics are rubbish now, failure imminent green tints all over.

http://www.s-mall.com.sg/images/IBM%20Thinkpad%20X41%20Notebook.jpg
Believe it or not but this is my main computer. IBMX41, it was manufactured in 2006... so, yes it has 10 years and what a decade it was! 10 freaking years of constant working nearly 20/7 and its still kicking. Boots up very fast with lightweight Unix OS, some bigger and heavier websites can slow it down...no miracles :-\  it uses only 18W ;D This stock foto is not much different than my x41, looks like it was bought last month. They dont make them any more like that.

Haha. My computer is as old as the mammoth. All will not be updated. Well, it is already ten years exactly.

If your computer is running slower on Windows, when in the past it didn't, then check your startup programs, pressing CTRl+Shift+ESC.

Or do a clean install.

The hardware is still the same as the day it was bought.

Right now as you are asking, I don't exactly know nor care about it's age. Bought a new casing, still stuck on migrating the old parts into a fresh hull.

The plan is about stuffing the old case with some cheap spare parts to puff it up as a secondary, for boring or long durance tasks.

I just looked at the specs. Omg, old. I mean, can modern browser run smoothly on it?

Currently 2 months old touch screens 4k res 32gb ram using razor mouse and keyboard

I don't and had spent a few grand on one and sold it to a family member for chump change.
I had two more older ones that still work fine..

Since gaming died at GTA:SA
I have had no interest ever since in any of that crap anymore.
Make HL3 or fuck off !

So..

I am running a machine for Windows Media Center on Win7 + Web Browsing basically.
AMD Phenom X4 9950 "BE"
On an old AM2+ board.. a lame piece of crap.

Works perfectly fine.. although if i need to do a video encode etc it will obviously take a million years LOL

..what ever works for your needs ;)

I bought different parts used on eBay, so who knows what the true age is. A core2 quad cost around $16.

Have bought a Hp N series I3 Lap in 2014 from Amazon , and it still in service

My main vomputer is 1 year old. I experiment my main computer I install OS in my computer using VM to have many OS. But first I buy Upgradable RAM, ROM, VIDEO Card and CPU Core so that the program of my computer us stable and log or stacking when doing something in my computer.

Around 5-6 years old. :D Got a few times harddrive problem so i don't really know the exact years

12 years, sold it last month. I bought an another pc long time ago but i still kept the old one as souvenir

You used it for 12 years, or you have it for 12 years but bought another one a year or so ago?

my main machine is a 7 year old laptop. I do have a fancy newer one but i'm not gonna make much use of that unless i'm traveling. the old one works perfectly still and does everything I need as I've never gamed on it. the days of having to upgrade all the time are over. same goes for phones apart from one upmanship.

Over 5 years and I hope that will work another 5

Mine is three years old. However, when I built it I did so that it will take over 6 years until I will need to upgrade it. Right now I'm having absolutely no problem with it, I can run anything anytime without errors.

23 years. 386 Dx , 2 mb ram, 0,5 mb vga ram , 170 mb HDD ,1,44 flopy.

Windows 95 lol are you still on dialup, I think you are just joking around.

Okay my rig is mad old its a potato:
https://i.imgur.com/0S5spVm.jpg

My computer is 6 years old, but since I don’t do anything on it except surf the web and print files I don’t see any reason to upgrade.

My computer is bought in 2010. I bought second hand pc. I don't know how long they used it. I'm still using until now. It has a 512 memory when I bought with 80 gb harddisk. I bought another 512 memory and 80 harkdisk. I'm using  it until now. I wish to buy another pc but I don't cash at the moment.

I bought the computer in 2013 on first earned bitcoin. ;) I am not going to do an upgrade

Windows 95 came out in August 1995, so 23 years is before that.

If it aint broke, don't fix it is my motto.  My 2001 Win XP Pro box lasted more than a dozen years, it was actually the Mother Board that finally died.  I never had the blue screen of death - ever - not once.

I've replaced it with an acer Win XP Home Edition (second hand) - swapped out the Ram for the maximum (which would have cost a small fortune new) and added a graphics card.

Hasn't missed a beat in the last three years.

this my main computer 1 year old
but the first i have my computer 12 year old

I could have done that. It was onboard, and I could have added a new GPU. But for a 7 (now 9) year old AMD dual core it was not worth it. And I wanted a modern quiet computer.

I was just using DOS. Then came Windows 3.1.

Mine is 4 years old as well.
As long as it works, I plan to keep it.

I find that I don't want to buy brand new desktops anymore. I might consider older Xeon powered workstations or servers. They are cheap now, you only need to get new SSDs or new HDDs for storage.

My 5 year old rack server has 48 GB RAM, and I'll probably upgrade it to 72 GB. Dual Quad Core with Hyperthreading, so effectively 16 cores. You can buy these for $500 or less.

Well, in parts were bought in different years.

My I7-3770k 10/20/2014.
My asrock z75 with gskill ram bought in 5/13/2012.
I bought my i3-2100 from here at bitcointalk.org around same time I bought my board.
Bought one 840 pro in 4/28/2014 and the other 840 pro in 2015 or so.
ASUS Xonar D1 soundcard in 9/1/2014.
my XB240H in 9/2/2015 same date for my MSI GeForce GTX 960.
And for my corsair 750d, I forget when and where I bought it.
The cooling system shit I forget.

https://i.imgur.com/KYMfvb6.jpg

I bought it last year. Hoping it to reach another 5 years.

I have a few for different uses aroung the house, But I make and upgrade when needed.

so for me my computer is as old as its oldest part, so I suppose.... around 6 years (the sata cable) but other than that, the memery is the oldest part I bought at end of '14.

Saw the title, and though you were asking our age.      ::)

What is your age then?

I use a six years old laptop but still work great                                                                                                                                                   

My main computer is from 2012, and it's working perfectly. :)

You maybe surprised to learn that I'm currently using an IBM Model M keyboard, dated 1994.

Why am I still using a keyboard 22 years old? Simple. It's the best keyboard ever made. Noisy and built like a tank.
And with the added bonus that is doesn't have that silly "Windows" key in the lower left, which grinds my gears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard

Edit: The rest of my setup is a modern system.

i own a Cpu thats almost about 10 years old now. but my main laptop is about 1 and a half years old.

My main computer is 7 old months.
I love my computer it is very transparable

Wow! thats really old! Mine is I do have a laptop but i dont have a pc at my home because i cant afford it and my laptop is just given to me by my relatives and i think it is almost 8 years because it was given on 2008 so i love it though it is old i can use it and soon i should buy new :D

My main computer is over 2 years old.

3 years but still satisfied with. :P

My main computer is over 1yrs old as of now .
I'm very satisfied with my computer

I agree 90% of the time.
Unless you are compiling code or a video etc it often make little difference really.

What it will boil down to more is mult-tasking.

For my desktop and my Android Motorola phone it's about just doing less at once.
vs buying newer hardware to do more at once.

I use a AMD Phenom X4 9950 BE edition CPU on a shit motherboard.
But when i set it up a year ago i had to decide which to go with.. that one or my other old PC
I have a Core2Duo E7500 Wolfdale that overclocks like a beast on air ..4ghz with stock cooler LOL
BUT ! ..it's a dual core and the AMD i am typing on now is slower speed wise but a quad.
So the extra two cores although slower has an effect of being faster.. when it's not technically.

I also use a huge CPU fan that sticks out of my case so much i can't get the side cover on.
I think it's the Cooler Master EVO 212 with adapter to go on pretty much any socket.. old + new.
I had bought it from Newegg as a back up in case the water cooler (Corsair H100i) failed on the "good" PC.
I had an Intel 4770k Haswell i bought from Newegg $360+ TAX/SH with a sweet gaming MSI board.
I went all out on it and got a bad ass SSD and then two 1tb WD black HDD's etc
Weirdest of all was the cube case from Cooler Master with 2 levels on it.
I got this case below from Newegg for like 80 buck i think.. (+ tax etc CAN$)

Cooler Master HAF XB EVO (mine had the giant 120mm case fan on top i had to buy separately)
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vaCLX7rHL._SX355_.jpg

But i sold it to a family member for a super cheap price because they expressed interest in it and i had my fun with it.
If it was not family i prob would have kept it..
So i had to downgrade to a either of the 2 way older PC's ..which was not that big a deal actually.

I advocate getting your money's worth out of PC parts.
I have been swapping mobo's out of a nice silver case i have with front LED's and a side window with a black light since 2003.. since it's a full size large roomy ATX case i can just keep shoveling in new parts :)

What is more fun though is modding !
It can be more gratifying hobbling shit together than buying stuff off the shelf.

I recently bought an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 3.33Ghz for $16 on eBay. Not sure if it's compatible with the motherboard you had, but if so you could upgrade it. If you still have the old motherboard.

I have one that is 11 years old but i usualy use my laptop that is also bot old about 7 years old its core 2 duo with 4gigs of ram and 266 meg of geforce9300m and the best thing that it has 18 inch screen

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1626232.msg16373717#msg16373717

My main computer is 1 year old. Got it in my USA trip, since everwhere outside there you have a lot of fees, ends up being almost twice as expensive so I decided to wait until I got there to do so

my laptop already 3 years with me
its always help me for all my work

just had the old one scraped off and got a new one which is clocking 3 months now

3 year old laptop still playing the games

my main computer 2 year old

It was 8 years old until it bit the dust just last month.
It was a faithful laptop. :'(

oh for sure

Doesn't look as good as the potato.

What's the problem with it? Perhaps you can still fix it. Might just have to change a component.

i bought my computer back in 2012. its about 4 years! ;D

In case you did not get my joke earlier..

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=Computer+submerged+in+oil&safe=off&tbm=isch&uss=1&tbs=imgo:1

or.. https://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php

Are there any benefits in doing that. It's not dangerous. It's not a bad idea, since if you can close it off completely the components won't get dirt filled. Does it cool it well?

About 8 months old. I have another atom base computer that's about 2 years old. But it's really slow.

The 2nd link i posted has a good FAQ.
It's not too good for overclocking but yeah it does cool well.
The guys even kept the fans running LOL

This is old though i seen guys doing it back in 2003 roughly.

My main computer is from 2013, and it's working ok for now  ;)

my computer buy is one year

I've seen a working TV immersed in liquid CFC to demonstrate it's inert properties.  Isn't there a paste or gum that you can use to remove hard to remove fluff and dirt from hard to reach places on motherboards and cards?

16 years old. Sega Dreamcast. I surf the world wide web on it.

Built a whole new mid-tier PC 2 and half years ago.  The weakest part of the rig is the GPU (gtx 660).  Some value increase in altcoins and will buy a new one :D

8 years old and still good  :)

Well my computer is 2 year old longer. After all this computer is currently working and it is well performed because the specification is updated in the trending computer now a days. I just lucky that i knew about computer in this modern period because the cost of computer is not higher as usual.

My main computer is about 10 years old now or i think ever more 2-3 years because my brother was using it as student and now he is married.I also used that a lot but now it work sometimes and sometimes not.

It probably has an easy fix. Tinker around with the components. Try to find out what died and replace it.

it's about 7 y.o. already, wow, time is going so fast!

Have just built this for 4 months, pretty love it :
https://i.imgur.com/ER97clI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/NmMsBjK.jpg

It's screen (60 inches) :

https://i.imgur.com/Lq2pjCA.jpg

The laptop i use the most frequent is my workpc. It's currently 2 years old and i get a new one every 4 years....
Runs windows 7 pro, i5, 8 Gb ram, 256 Gb SSD

At home, i use an 7 or 8 years old laptop, it's still 32 bit, 5400 rpm hd. I've installed openSuse on it, since this distro still builds their binaries for both 32 and 64 bit at the same time, so i get regular updates.

When i need some more power, i use my wife's laptop, it's also an i5 with SSD, but it only has 2 Gb ram. It runs debian.

My main computer is only two years. When I bought it, it was considered very cool

5 years old my computer i thought change that bullshit

My main computer is from 2011. But I did some customazation later. I changed the graphics card and and the main board.
Tuning my computer is kinda a hobby :)

5 years old, but my htpc is 10 lol

My main computer is a Lenovo laptop I got just less than a year ago.

Hope it lasts more than my previous laptops did.

I bought my main desktop computer 10 years ago that was 2006 and until now used this pc as my pfsense server to manage my network.I am happy with it i can't believe that it too durable and alive until now.

My main computer is 6 years old, and it is still functioning as it is new.

And NASA uses 20 year old computers sent up to space. ... (shielded and redundant.)

Its very old. I have also the same laptop. But i cant use it because some parts of it are missing. Tge specs of mine: 258 mb of ram and 100gb of hdd. I dont know the others. But you should be careful with the mouse because its just a nipple that made of rubber and tear so easy. Its better to use usb mouse than the mouse itself.

my main computer is one year old
but the first my computer is 12 year old

2014 with 2016 .. 2 yers

I have built mine three years ago, and it still handles any new game on ultra high graphics with >60FPS. I am proud with it and I hope it will rest for a few more years until new technologies will come and take it over. I'm planning to buy some new components soon (a video card), but I need to get my money first. :)

My main computer is 4years old. Its my birthday gift from my grandfather when i was 19 years old  ;D

My main computer is three years. And it is time to renew completely. I do not like how it works

My computer is 10 years old. And yes, it is not ok. When I will earn some BTC, I will buy new computer :)

My computer is old 2 months i buyed it really close fast so my computer will have big life and i dont need to buy another one so i am really happy and it works really fine :D

Same, I've bought mine back in 2012 but the spec is really bad for today standards, tho I'd be good if only got 2GB or even better 4GB of ram

I'm on an old laptop with 8 GB RAM, and I keep getting out of memory errors when I open too many browser tabs, too many VMs and RDPs sessions, too many torrents ...

Had this computer since late 2012, I need to upgrade the graphic card and it will be good as new in my opinion.
The specs are:
CPU: Intel i7 3930k (This CPU still amazes me to this day, the hexagon design is top quality, no overheating issues and i've not been able to throw anything at my CPU that would cause it to halt or have difficulities, excluding benchmarking enviroments, a true beast.
RAM: I started with 8GB ram 2133mhz, upgraded it to 16gb ram 1333MHZ because my 4x2 sticks were causing me booting issues for some reason.
GPU: I'm still using that old GTX 680 GPU, I may upgrade it soon for The Witcher 3.

Overall i'm still satisfied with how it performs, except for the graphic card, I may just upgrade the graphic card only, unlike my older computers whom I upgraded multiple pieces.

Rather funny thing is my firefox seems to struggle a lot more in my wearing-out SSD, than from my RAM or CPU.

 :D 7 years and still i am use

I have a desktop 4 years ago with an AMD 6-cores, 8 gb of RAM DDR3 and SSD as primary HD. Maybe I need a better GPU but I don't play any games.

Im buying new computer in next 2-3 month probably, however my main is really old right now... that old that he makes me forget sometimes how slow is he :D
Its 8 years already, but some parts have been replaced. I have changed the disk from SATA to SSD but currently im using only 1 disk.
Rest is old, but my graphic card is getting fucked, some strange "artifacts" are going on the screen sometimes :(

my main computer is 6 month

I have a computer constantly breaks down. I'm sick of it repaired. Although he was only 1 year. Perhaps it is time again to buy a new

Mine mobile device is 10 years old, however it played in full meter films and even had a few close ups  8)

my laptop is older than my PC, cause my PC update hardware recently :'( for gaming purpose.. otherwise laptop just for work in mobile coz make it slowly type a letter or spreadsheet in smartphone  ;D

2 year 5 month

Built it in 2007, stupid thing doesn't run anymore though keeps getting Windows errors despite numerous tries to fix it. Too cheap to buy a new one, so roll with my 2010 macbook solely now.

around 3-4 years,  I work about programming and playing game also mainboard is workload. I use around 5 years per 1  laptop. ahhhh

My old computer was to be clocking 9 years this Christmas but it took a lot of storage space had to give it out to someone  ::)

I owned 1 desktop computer with minor specifications on it. It has an i3 processor and now still kicking for 5 years. It was already the 2nd time I changed the motherboard because it got burned. Mine has no dedicated video card and that is why my motherboard f*ck up easily. I can still play games like nba2k16, modern warfare etc. I bought it long time ago for 19k, whole desktop package that Includes CPU, Monitor and other peripherals. Since I got a job and I was able to save some money. I already bought Asus GL552vx and runs perfectly.

I think the most important computer only 2 years. but he's already obsolete.

I bought the computer in 2013. WIN 7

A little over three years old, still works great. Would of course be much cheaper to get the same specs today.

My main PC is one year know, but I had the PC before that for about 8 years....

My old computer is 9 years old .well i dont use that anymore .but still its speakers are just awesome .its sound is like boom boom till now .i am just happy to use it till now even if i have my own computer pc .because guys always remember old is gold .kudoos :)

mine is a notebook, bought this year because the other was made of paper and broke, but still works