How long do you guys expect to keep using your current PC? I've had mine since 2016 and, aside from changing cases and GPUs, haven't upgraded it. I'm also hoping that I can continue to use it for at least another 4-5 years. Specs :
>i7-6700 (non k) >1070 ti >128 gb SSD + 2 TB HDD >24 GB 2133 RAM >AB250 PRO 4 mobo >Cougar gaming case
I can see myself adding a HDD in the future, but that's about it. I do moderate gaming and video editing with my pc.
What do you guys have and how long do you think it will last?
I’m using a 2010 MBP with a 2.6 Core 2 , 8GB RAM and a 120GB SSD, nVidia 320m.
It runs arch like a champ and for anything I need I just SSH to one of the few GCE/zOS instances I have set up. and all 5 are union mounted so it’s pretty fucking chill.
Lol @ gamerfags. I’ll probably use it for another year or four and then get a minipc
Jaxson Kelly
Another year or two at most. Waiting on 2060 specs to maybe upgrade or grab a 1070. Glad I went with K series chip as it's given system a good deal more life being able to OC.
>i5 2500k @ 4.5ghz >Gtx 670 2gb >250gb samsung evo >1TB spinpoint F3 >1TB WD Caviar black >120gb kingston ssd
Luke Ward
Forgot ram, 16gb ddr3 1600mhz.
Cameron Price
Few years, i built it last years 8700k / GTX 1060 / 32gb ram etc.. all i need is a new GPU but the rest is still good and will last me a few years.
Ram was cheap back in 2016,figured I'd preemptively stock up then. Its not necessary though, my usage usually peaks at 10 when editing 4k video or gayming.
Ayden Carter
hey i'm still using punch cards. lol @ your pathetic kernels
I expect it would last a solid 5 years playing pretty much any game at least 60 FPS @ 1080p in 2023.
But I upgrade every time new stuff comes out so....
Ian Green
>since 2016 That's only 2 years. That's practically brand new.
There's no reason to upgrade anything unless you plan on doing 4k VR or 4k 60fps, in which case you just buy a 2080Ti. The CPU is fine. The SSD is fine. The mobo is fine. The ram is fine.
Hunter Myers
I have a 1060 with a 8700k and still play virtually every game at 1080p at higher then 60fps... (Not at max settings though).
Your 2080 will last more then 5 years and so will that build for games.
Aiden Parker
OK Paul.
Matthew Lopez
How much did you pay for this, $5,000? Seriously, 3TB in SSD's? That alone had to of cost $1k
Xavier Bennett
I aim for 4-5 years with minor upgrades.
Built my newest PC a couple months before the Ryzen drop, kind of bitter. Got a 7700k delid, 32gb when it was cheap and sold my 480RX to crypto bitches to get my 1070 very cheap. Then found a bunch of samsung 120s at fred meyers clearanced to 20 bucks a pop, sold half of em.
It's just stupid, I do Lightroom and Photoshop. Use a bit of Visual Studio and Office and play a bit of LOTRO or BF1.
I don't need to be in this rat race ever again.
Brayden Morales
me current toaster >Athlon X4-860k >R7-260X >8Gb rice ram >Crucial mx100 + Seagate 500gb Next toaster will be a Ryzen APU, if ram prices ever come down
Connor Ortiz
The ryzen 7 us the only thing enticing me to upgrade since I do encode videos from time to time. But I figure by waiting a few. More years I'll get the money out my 6700 and wind up getting an even better upgrade when I do switch to ryzen.
Jaxon Bailey
What? Its 2018 dude.
I paid $75 each for the 525GB on woot, around $260 for the 2TB SSD (all over slickdeals) and had the 480 GB one since 2016 and paid around $100 for it at the time.
So around $500 worth today I guess.
Cameron Hernandez
Here's how to get out of the upgrade cycle, applicable for """general use """ or gayman >buy mid-tier CPU and get mid-high tier board for chosen chipset >buy high tier or even enthusiast GPU but not retard tier like Titan >buy seasonic 650-800w PSU >upgrade GPU every 5 years >make new build every 7-10; maybe even keep the PSU
Hudson Hughes
>at least 60 FPS @ 1080p in 2023 not with raytracing enabled. and how did you come upon this? are you the jacket man?
Jayden Wood
Cpu/mobo 7 years GPU 3 years
Luke Lee
It was obvious I was not talking about raytracing.
Levi Wood
Shut the fuck up faggot
Asher Wright
I'm planning on paying gaymes out of my life, so I'm hoping itll last longer for video rendering purposes.
Christian Fisher
does seasonic sponsor this board? i use corsair psu
Jackson Cox
*phasing games out
Kevin Kelly
seasonic has quality single rail power supplies, corsair used to have higher build standards but they're cheaping out now.
Benjamin Hill
I used an Athlon 64 X2 system bought in 2006 until a couple months ago, when the motherboard just died. Upgraded to a refurbished Dell with a C2Q and HD 7750, which i hope to squeeze another 10 years from
Colton Rivera
Arma 3/csgo/SC2/Overwatch/Dota 2 and occaisonally other older games (aoe2/WC3). Run most newer stuff at low/medium settings and usually get around 60fps. But definitely a big bottleneck.
Cooper Myers
Last PC(e8400, 4850) lasted me from 2006 to 2017... So I guess a decade? As long as you don't game, the thing can stay usable.
I'm still using a $200 netbook from 2011(c-50, 4gb ram).
Cameron Smith
>had to of
Robert Gomez
i7 4790k GTX 780 8gb Ram
Still plays everything max and only 4-5 years old.
Luis Lee
don't think I'll ever buy anything over xx50 series cards again.
>2013, a 780 ti costs $700 while the 750 ti is $150 >today that 780ti is equivalent to a 1050 ti in performance >YFW you could have bought the 750ti, 950, and 1050 ti for $450 and had similar performance at this point, not to mention whatever you recouped selling the other 2 cards.
Ryan Bell
>xeon w3680 >gtx 1080 or quadro m4000 if i need to do work >500gb ssd, 12tb hdd >48gb ddr3 1333 >asus p6r7 ws supercomputer x58 never dies. i got my beast about 5 years ago and only needed to upgrade the graphics card
Josiah Jones
i have a c2d lappy, lenovo g550 2009, mobo died 4 years ago, got it replaced, and now it is perfect to shitpost on Jow Forums for another 3-4 years. can't game though. have a 1050ti pc for that.
yep, 100% i have 1050ti -- 1080p@60fps gaming is all i want. and if 2023 games can give me 30fps i won't mind much.
this is correct.
always buy mid-high, squeeze upto 10 years out of it. afterwards, give it to younger cousins/nephews, if possible, for free so that they'll love you forever.
always be hailed as the one of the more respected members of the extended family.
Nathaniel Collins
I've had the same PC for ten years and I've only ever had to change the PSU and HDD.
Connor Cox
r7-260 is based
Kevin Ward
built my pc back in 2015 for about 375$ for just the system, not including peripherals. Since then Ive 'upgraded', if you can call it that, from a ghetto cheap custom loop to a decent air cooler, and added a hard drive. >Xeon x5650, 6 cores, currently oc'd to 4.8ghz, kept it at 5 with my old watercooling but it the pump was loud and it was hard to work in my system with it >r9 380x 4gb, oc'd to 1050mhz core, 1500mem >12gb ram, 1900mhz >3 1tb hdd's I dont plan on upgrading for another 4 years atleast desu
Justin Gutierrez
I'm still using an old Core 2 Duo desktop with 4gb of ram. It's still works and is still bearable thanks to the SSD but I'm already seeing dropped frames when watching YouTube @ 1080p when I have multiple tabs open. I'll probably switch to the next Ryzen next year.
Nathaniel Mitchell
>i7-3770k I had this on some z77 board until the board up and died one day now compatible motherboards are impossible to find here so the cpu is useless a socket a year keeps well you know the rest
Kayden Cooper
Do yourself a favor and spring for the SSD if you haven't (maybe a new battery depending on how yours is). That's what breathed life into my aging MBP
Colton Gomez
>i7 2600K @4.2ghz >16gb ddr3 >hd 7950 >500gb 850 pro >4tb WD red ryzen build is ready to go, waiting for "next gen" gpus
Xavier Cruz
>i7-4790k >32GB DDR3 Ram >GTX 1080 >A 250GB SSD for OS, 500GB sd for more recent games/stuff I play alot, a 3TB drive for games that doesn't need the SSD boost, and a 5TB for files.
Probably will do a new build in late 2019/mid 2020 depending on how things go. The motherboard and processor in my current build were bought in 2015 and I wanted to get at least 3-4 years out of it, everything else is around 2016 when I did a upgrade. I'll probably reuse most of the hard drives and the PSU, and get a new SSD for the OS.
I have a aging media server that is pretty much my old old build (Phenom X4, 12GB of RAM, bunch of HDDs) and I plan to upgrade that with what I have in my current PC when the time comes.
I have this since 2011/12, only replaced HDD and added SSD and the RX 550, I had a GT 440 that died. I use it for embedded development and old games mostly and I don't expect changing this in atleast 3 years.
Grayson Morris
Well my PC is a second-hand workstation from 2013. I don't see any signs of it croaking and it should last for another 10 years easy. If you mean by "last" how long it'll be viable probably another 10 years depending on what I want to do with it. It's quiet and small enough that I could use it as an HTPC once it stopped being usable as a daily driver.
Angel Mitchell
>Ryzen 1600 >16GB DDR4 >GTX 1080ti >1Tb HDD + 120 GB SSD Honestly don't know. My RAM is some dodgy shit so I might upgrade that. I've been getting some game crashes recently but it's not the RAM and it doesn't look like it's any driver. And my SSD is absolutely tiny as well.
Leo Garcia
Everything you've got is solid except for the processor. Get yourself a Ryzen 7 and you'll be set for a long while.
Nicholas Kelly
Panasonic Toughbook CF-52 i3, 8gb, win7 Bought some time around 2011 I see no pressing need to upgrade yet.
Wyatt Parker
708ti is more of a 1060 than a 1050ti
Julian Roberts
Got a Acer Predator Helios 500 two months ago. Used to have a decent budget build but travel so much for work that I needed something portable. This should last me until 2024ish since its 1080p and has an 8gb 1070 in it
Nathaniel Bailey
My 2500k Sandy Bridge Mobo died just recently. Bought it the summer it came out so it was a good 7 years. Replacing it with a non used part was too expensive, and all the refurb components were not ideal. It was time to move on to Ryzen.
Scary bit, my data drives are nearly 10 years old, about 6TB in total. No signs of death in sight. Nothing critical on them though so won't even worry if they die. Mostly steam games and downloaded TV shows.
Juan Parker
Got pc from 2012, so.. z77, 3750k, 16gb ram and gtx 670, ssd, good psu and some custom cpu cooler. It still works so great, that I'm scratching head trying to figure out when I will upgrade. Probably in 2022 (because it will be 2 years after Cyberpunk 2077 release, and this means there will be rapemods already)
Jonathan Cruz
The least depreciating part of a computer, second to the case, is the PSU. If you're going to spend money on a part, you get the best PSU you can get. A 650 gold from seasonic is just $60 Seasonic is THE GOAT, so much so that most of the top-end segment offered by gayman brands are actually rebranded Seasonic PSUs.
Bentley Hernandez
based and rapepilled
Adam Nguyen
Why is seasonic constantly shilled here?
Noah Powell
>Xeon W3680 4.78Ghz >24GB 2133Mhz RAM >GTX-1070 >512GB SSD + 2x 2TB HDD >Asus P6T 10 year old platform still fast as fuck
Ethan Taylor
I5-4670k since 2014, still going strong, with 16GB of RAM Might upgrade next year if ram prices lower.
Oliver Howard
Xeon X3440 socket 1156 16gb ram DDR3(got 4x2 for free couple of years ago) AMD 7950 250 gb samsung ssd 120gb oczssd 3tb Toshiba hdd Even when It comes to gayming I only play old shit and emulator so this thing will keep on lasting me for ages.
Jaxon Howard
because it just werks and their warranty is long as fuck. If you buy a top-end PSU from one of the gayman brands (corsair, EVGA etc) 9 times out of 10 it will just be a seasonic PSU with their brand slapped on it for +$10-15 premium plus tip
Julian Thomas
Do laptops count? I've had my T420 with dGPU, 8gb ram and an ssd since 2012 and I'm just about to sell it while I still can and build a low-mid range PC to catch me up on current gen games.
I will use it until it dies and then I will fix and use it until it dies again and I will be fixing it over and over and over again as long as it will be possible to buy parts. So probably very, very long or maybe forever. I ordered a new fan yesterday, because the current one has become noisy. I am looking for a new laptop though.
Now it is my workshop laptop. I will use it the same way as T430. No retirement. Never.
Hunter Ward
pcu died in 2015 graphic card is damaged and can't play vidya since 2012 HDD died in 2015 Rest of my pc is from 2011
Leo Butler
Ryzen 5 1600x 16gb 3200 mhz ram gtx 1060 6gb 500gb sata ssd 4TB HDD Build spring last year. Hopefully it last atleast 4 years.
Jace Hill
I just set my Athlon II 16gb Ram Nvidia 560ti computer to server work in 2016. The cycle rate for computers; even gaming computers is a lot different than in the 90s and 2000s. You would have been lucky to get 4 years use out of computer back then. Even in 2016 I could still run most video games and do web browsing with ease. I fully expect this computer to last until 2025 with minor part upgrades. i5-6600k with 16gb Ram (waiting for prices to drop) and a Nvidia 1060 6GB. Eventually I'll bump to 32gb ram and skip 3-4 generations of GPU before upgrading. I don't understand people who upgrade EVERY generation of video card. The upgrades are minuscule between generations. Even when i got my 560ti in 2009 the addition of NVENC in the next generation didn't really mean much until years later. Twitch/Youtube streaming didn't really mature until 2014-15. This ray tracing shit in the 2k series won't be adopted enmasse until 2022-2024 by most games. Fuck paying for shit that doesn't get usage.
Kevin Martinez
Chinkpad t420 with 8gb ram: I just SSD and open chrome. Fine for another 5 years or more. i5 4690, 16gb, 1050. 5 years or more
Julian Perry
Maybe a 1060 3GB. I have a 1060 6GB and my friend has a 980 and we are more or less equal.
Lincoln Ramirez
I built this in 2012
i7 3770K @ 4.3 32GB DDR3 1866 256GB Samsung 840 Pro 2x GTX 660 Ti (bought one at Best Buy and it died and EVGA sent me a replacement and then I swapped the broken one at Best Buy. Not sure how but I bought one and 2 months later I had 2) Assortment of HDDs ranging from 250GB-2TB
I wanted to overclock and I needed the extra threads since I did a lot of 3D modeling back in the day when I bought this. Don't do much of it now but the death of SLI sucked and running one card that is pretty old makes me want to get a 1070 or so. Waiting to see how the RTX 20xx do. I'll make a decision then. All in all, not too bad.
