How old is your machine?

[ShooterDK]

I'm using a Dell Dimension 4500 that I picked up in '02. Replaced PS about a year ago. Still running strong. Hate to replace 'cause I really like XP but I know the day will come when... poof!

[dls]

Work is Dell Inspiron 530,Windows Vista business.
IT put in a new 500G hard drive a year ago, the old one gave up.

It does email n stuff....


; )

[the86d]

I used to upgrade every year when tax return came in, but now that I don't have as much coming back (thanks Obama? ), I have not gotten an upgrade (at home) in like 4 years. AMD Phenom 9100e Quad-Core w/ MSI board Running Win7 Ultimate. She is rack mounted with my Win server and Slackware box on the same rack in the computer/reloading room, so I don't pull her out unless it is dusting time, or something goes wrong. I will probably upgrade when she dies, but priorities are in reloading components right now. I will probably see if I can run Slackware if she does die (but right now I am REALLY Liking the latest Knoppix distro, but I will have to test 1st).

I never buy the latest and greatest as in 1.5-2.5 years CPUs usually drops to about 2/3 to 1/2 in price (last I was checking), and CPU MFRs change the sockets more often than I would like.

[paul0660]

I always buy state of the art, 5 years later, for a tenth the price.

[Merc1138]

Since it was last re-assembled? Couple months since the last motherboard/CPU swap. Oldest part is one of the monitors.

Silverstone RV02(swapped the center and rear fans to Silverstone AP181's)
Intel i7 3770k
Thermalright TRUE Spirit 120 HSF
Asus Sabertooth z77
Asus GTX 590(not that I'd have ever paid that much for a 590, but Asus ****ed up and wound up giving me a free upgrade)
1x Mushkin Chronos deluxe sata 3 240GB SSD
2x OCZ Agility 2 sata 2 60GB SSD RAID 0
2x Seagate Constellation 2TB sata 3 HDD RAID 0
(all of that gets backed up to a NAS)
16GB(4x4GB) Corsair vengeance ddr3 1600 RAM
Corsair AX1200 PSU
1x random Samsung dvd burner
1x 19" Samsung 940bw LCD rotated to portrait
1x 27" AOC(got it for dirt cheap to replace a 22") LCD
Asus Xonar Phoebus soundcard
Dayton amp
Elemental Designs sub and bookshelf speakers
Logitech g700 mouse
Corsair k90 keyboard
HardOCP ratpad(this might actually be older than the Samsung LCD)
Sennheiser PC 360 "G4ME" headset(this thing is amazing compared to the typical logitech, turtle beach, etc. garbage)

The last major rebuild that this slowly replaced over time was a core 2 duo e6850 on an asus p5q deluxe in a thermaltake armor case with a geforce 8800GT(was later upgraded to a xeon x3370 with a pair of radeon 4870s in crossfire) all water cooled with a 120 and 240 radiator in series with no reservoir in a closed loop.

I haven't bought a "dell/compaq/hp/etc" since maybe 1997 as they're always overpriced or under powered. When I say overpriced... Alienware and Falcon Northwest want $4,000(or more) for a similar system, not including the speakers, headset, and LCDs, which is more than double what I'd have paid for the components if I were paying MSRP. Screw that.

[ShooterDK]

^ Do you ever see daylight? Dang!

[Merc1138]

^ Do you ever see daylight? Dang!

The sun is bad, causes cancer.

[ShooterDK]

[Merc1138]

Just because I can remember the specs of one of my home systems off the top of my head while I'm at work, doesn't mean that I don't get out of the house. I'm sure there are plenty of car guys who could give you a more detailed listing of their engine components

(but seriously, the sun is evil. Giant radioactive ball of fire in the sky that will one day expand an incinerate us, causes cancer, causes blindness just from looking at it, causes burns to the skin from mild irritation to blistering, makes it so hot outside that I wish we'd figure out outdoor air conditioning, causes people to use more electricity on cooling, emits bursts of electromagnetic radiation that can wreak havoc with our global communications, and so on. Screw the sun.)

[HalfMeltingEyes]

Built mine 6 years ago, replaced the graphics card a few years later.
It was built to run Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 1!

[ShooterDK]

Just because I can remember the specs of one of my home systems off the top of my head while I'm at work, doesn't mean that I don't get out of the house. I'm sure there are plenty of car guys who could give you a more detailed listing of their engine components

(but seriously, the sun is evil. Giant radioactive ball of fire in the sky that will one day expand an incinerate us, causes cancer, causes blindness just from looking at it, causes burns to the skin from mild irritation to blistering, makes it so hot outside that I wish we'd figure out outdoor air conditioning, causes people to use more electricity on cooling, emits bursts of electromagnetic radiation that can wreak havoc with our global communications, and so on. Screw the sun.)

Laughing with ya not at ya, ok? BTW very impressed with your prowess.

[Merc1138]

Laughing with ya not at ya, ok? BTW very impressed with your prowess.

I wasn't really looking to impress, my system is quite middle of the road all things considered. Even calling that an extreme and not going that far, you can build an i7 3570 with 8GB of RAM, an SSD, and a decent videocard for $700 these days that will let you do just about anything you throw at it. While costing significantly less than what you can get out of a single cardboard box.

[Brianguy]

My i7 930 and mobo are the oldest components in my desktop. Whats that 3 years old I guess. I'd like me one of them fancy 6 cores but too dang expensive

[Scout2Diesel]

The Atom and core2duo's were beinging to drag me down. So I just treated myself to an I5 2nd Gen laptop... and for the $$ I'm Happy.

I used to buy the best desktop MB and cheapest chip to upgrade it latter... but that was long before machines became a commodity.

[odysseus]

I always buy state of the art, 5 years later, for a tenth the price.

5 years is way too long for me. I wouldn't want my "new" systems to be something that was standard 5 years ago with how I run them, and then run that for a couple years. Ouch.

However what I do is buy (if laptop) and build (if workstation) a premium system. Not all the parts are the top end, but the technology in them is on the leading edge of the bell curve with only maybe the slightest % off the performance that the top money is buying for the top CPU and GPU - which saves well for fast performance. Those systems usually last me 3 years before I consider doing a new up.