How dated is your main machine?

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Bought the mainboard and most other crap in 2013

>pentium laptop from 2005/6

>tfw you fell for the 16 GiB RAM meme

>laptop from 2012 with 2670qm and a 630m

I've upgraded to 16GBs of RAM and swapped the optical drive for an SSD, though

Average laptop bought in summer 2013

Solid machine I put together in early 2009, added a SSD in 2012.

Self build from January 2015.

>Solid machine I put together in early 2009
>a computer from 2009 can still be more than sufficient

Imagine using a 1988 computer in 1995.

The fuck happened. Seems like the progress slowed down massively.

It was originally built in 2014 for college, but I've upgraded pretty much every part in it except for the motherboard and case this past year.

I wonder what the average lifetime of a motherboard is.
Upgraded mine lots of times but at some point I wonder when I should rather change the mainboard instead of buying parts for the old one.

It's old. The CPU is a core 2 duo @ 2.4ghz and 4gb ram with a gt 740

I'm livin the dream.

First build in 1995.

Kept it up to date with regular upgrades.

8 years old with a 6 month old SSD

Works fine. It'll be better whenever I dump my old 750ti for something newer

from 2012. just got around to oc'ing my 3570k. shoulda bought a better motherboard. can only do 4.2ghz before stability issues come up and voltage jumps for smaller and smaller gains. i'm not a very good oc'er though.

will get a 1070 next spring. should be good for another 4-5 years.

>a generation PC

my tower case is a 1998 fujitsu so in a sense mine went through like 5 generations of insides up to now while looking the same on the outside

Lynnfield i5-750 @ 4ghz since 2010. Added an SSD a few years ago.

Owner of multiple systems, current system I'm using rn was built earlier this year from used parts. Most of the parts are from mid-late 2013, SSD's a bit older though. Not enough power for my needs so I'll be probably parting this off for a Xeon workstation build in the future.

Mid 2000s? AMD 9590, Asus crosshair v, AMD 290. That Motherboard is the oldest component... Amd really need to get zen out.

2013 Vintage.
Xeon e5-1620v2 and 32GB Memory.
R9-390x (which is effectively a 8GB 290x which is 2013 vintage).

Processor and memory are grand, my next upgrade is a GPU. and a fancy NVMe drive.

Motherboard 2007
CPU 2010 (?)
RAM 2010
Case 2012
SSDs 2015
HDDs 2016
GPU 2015

X58 architecture.

Had 2 gtx 570 but they died (one 2 years after the other) so the newest thing I have in this computer is a shitty gtx 960.

Rest is intact.

My current shitbook laptop I just bought last week, my desktop is a Thinkstation from 2011. Being a retrotard I have a bunch of other shit going back to ~1978 though, got an SGI WinNT workstation from mid-1999 running in my bedroom as a shitposting/photoshopping/space heater box.

Software bloat didn't advance with it, new shit may have a lot of more advanced features but they still spend most of their time doing the same fundamental tasks they were doing in 1995, and hardware is just so damn fast now that it really doesn't matter what the fuck you throw at it as long as the data sets are small.

What mobo, user? Thinking of building a dual socket Xeon system in this next year and am curious.

2012 ThinkPad X220 with an i7-2640M, 16GB RAM, and IPS panel.

Gtx280 from 2010
First gen i5

It still plays games

Psu blew in 2012 and I just switched in a new one this year and everything booted up just fine, reapplied thermal paste

i've got a HP z620 memestation. which isn't very expensive nowadays.

fx8320
gtx960
6gigs 1600
nice ssd though

yea it's pretty mediocre specs. does what i need though, i don't play vidya.

mine is quite new,
just upgraded this summer

would have been an am4+cheap amd cpu if they were actually out but as AMD is always late with everything I switched to Intel

so 2016 is the age of all my components

2011 Thinkpad T420s
i5-2520m
8GB DDR3
Ancient 128gb Samsung SSD

Ah, nice
I'm aiming at a Z800 workstation for dual Xeons, little more expensive but I want to be able to play all my games within VMs using a dedicated GPU for said VM

That's not mediocre by any stretch

The oldest parts it has are the CPU, mobo and one of the hard drives from 2011, 2600k and an asus p8p67 evo, with my 1.5TB hdd.

2009 for both my desktop and main laptop. Have replaced the GPU and HDD once in my desktop and added an SSD, also upgraded the SSD in my laptop.

It depends on what you're doing with it. I haven't bought any newer AAA games past 2012 and my desktop can't play any newer AAA games.

_it is tho_

>3570k @4.2
>1070
maybe not the best idea, even with a healthy oc on it, the 3570k is cutting it close in terms of bottleneck potential

i tried getting up to 4.4-4.5 but i kept getting BSODs. figure the 1070 will carryover to my next tower if i need to upgrade CPUs.

>i7 3770k @4,5Ghz, GTX 680 and 16GB RAM
>all bought in 2012
It still doesn't feel remotely old

Bought in 2010:
- i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz
- 4 GB RAM
- HD5770 graphics

Some years later I upgraded graphics to GTX 660, added another 4 GB of RAM, and added 2 SSDs.
I can still play AAA games on medium~low settings so I still probably wont replace my computer for a while.

This one was built last year and I expect it to last for a while. The one before was from 2009 and it was certainly starting to show its age, it ran everything I wanted to but everything was just a little slow and crappy, but it's impressive how long it held up.

research the purchase thoroughly, ensure that the machine has the PCI-E Power connectors you need to power the GPU you want.

my z620 has 2x 6pins though one can run as an 8 pin without issue.

2500K with 8 GB RAM and an AMD R9 280 going strong.
I won't upgrade unless something breaks.

When did the 2500k get released?

why not OC the cpu?

AMD card and 1090t CPU from 2010.
Rocking 16GB RAM so I'm good for the next 10 years.

Built in 2008~2009 ish. Still works well but I don't play AAA games.

Not sure why only 4GB of ram is usable.

My main windows rig is from 2012 but my daily driver laptop is a Mid 2015 15" rMBP base model which I use for mostly python and IDL development.

i7-2600k purchased in 2011.

Just bought a GTX 1070, should get a couple more years out of this rig.

A few years, has some newer stuff too, mainly ssds and graphics.

Werks for me.

The only thing I have upgraded since 2010 is the Gpu, from a 560ti to 2 7970's.
I have also added a few SSD's but that's it.

3570k starting to feel the age. Upgrading to a 6600k next week.

2gb is put aside for botnet activities.

2011 i3 2310m 6gb, it werks.

My desktop (now home server) and every other tech device I have in daily use is 2013 era. I expect to get another 3-5 years out of all of it.

early 2012. i don't feel the need to change anytime soon. 2500k FTW

only the graphics card was recently upgraded to a RX480 cause i needed something to drive my 4K display

2009 budget $200 machine.
Plays modern AAA titles like a boss.

I'm actually just poor but the build does indeed manage to pull it off perfectly capably.

looks like /o/ is leaking

T520 memepad with an i5, it's from 2011 I think. Eh, it serves me well, only thing i've added is an msata ssd.

about 2014

13/14

next step is more ram and a 1070

6 year old laptop

8 year old core2duo desktop. my only complaint is video performance and not having virt support.

Ive got an i7 920 from like 6 years ago, do I even have a reason to upgrade for the rest of my life?

>he fell for the SSD meme

>he fell for the SSDs are a meme meme

Desktop with i7, 6GB RAM and HD7770 1GB.

Got a new macbook pro that I use as my main computer hooked up to my screen. The PC is mostly used for torrents and as a Plex server. I sometimes play indie or older games (< 2013) on it which it still handles fine.

>mainboard from 2007
>CPU from 2006
>GPU from 2015

This is basically what I still have.

Got 6 GB RAM for it from the get go and have since stuck an SSD in there but no newer gfx card.

I guess the combination of the i7 being really powerful and processor improvements plateauing made them last for a long time.

I have a new macbook pro as my main machine and mostly use the PC as a torrent station/plex server now though, and if I ever make it a dedicated home server I'm sure it'll be great for that.

Still going strong on X58, upgraded cpu to X x5670 from i7-950, ram to 24gb and gpu to a R390. Mostly doing editing and compositing alongside with sim racing, not a single hiccup.

Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz here + 2 G ram here

Some 2core AMD from 2012

T42 here. 512MB ram. 2004 I think.

6 years desktop. Two years laptop

G3258 & 750 Ti

latitude e6410. ~2010, i5 M560, 8GB mem (max). Runs great on a dock.

1 1/2 year old
AMD FX 6350
R9 270X
8GB RAM

Did I fuck up?

If you use your computer only for basic programming, web browsing, media viewing, retro gaming I see no reason why a computer from 2006 should not be enough.

Hi X200/s

I'm using a 2008 intel cpu with 4gb of ram and a 220.

2011 x everything

ssd failed in 1 year
liquid cooling failed in year 4
mobo failed in year 5

T500 here, manufactured in 2009, bought for first year university in 2011. T9400 running at 2.53 GHz, 4 gigs of RAM, , HD 3650 switchable graphics and the 1680x1050 screen (which was almost fucking impossible to find, and apparently still is). Honestly perfectly content with it, haven't even really felt the need to upgrade the 7200 RPM hard disk.

I did briefly own a modest desktop with an i3-2130 in first and second year university, but I sold it after quitting video games. In everyday tasks it felt no faster than the T500.

Somehow I doubt these are true, but if so then good on ya mates.

'09
>RAM upgrade to 8GB
>GPU upgrade from HD7450 to R5 230
Need a new machine

RAM died a year or so ago, replaced with 16GB of G.Skill something or other. Replaced 560ti with a 980 in Sept 2014. Added 512GB 850 Pro and a 2TB HDD around a year ago.

Everything else is the same, plan on building new machine early next year.

An A1224 iMac, bought new in December 2007. 3 GB RAM, 2.4 GHz, Radeon HD 2600. Never skipped a beat, except for two occasions where I unwisely installed Mountain Lion and Yosemite. Both times I reverted back to Snow Leopard, which is basically the last good version of OS X anyways.

I also have a T400 which is slightly newer, but I only use it when I travel, so I don't consider it my "main" machine.

2500k with a P67 BIOS motherboard (no EUFI)

>BIOS
>I
>O
>S

woot

My main machine is an Elitebook 8560p from 2012.
It has pretty good hardware, 8GB of ram and an i7-2640M, so I never really notice it's dated. I never thought of it as dated until people started pointing out that it was thick and heavy. Which it is.
It also has a DB9 serial port and even an RJ11 connection for a phone modem (which unfortunately only works with windows).
I replaced the optical drive with a second hard drive and replaced my main hard drive with an SSD, so I'd say it's keeping up pretty well and if it holds up mechanically, I can get another couple of years out of it.
I actually use that serial port.

Modern but weak. A 280x, fx 8320, and 8gb of ram.

>imac
>model m keyboard
>os/2 mousepad

if this was bait it was first class bait

2400k with a 290x here

gonna upgrade to a 6600k + mobo soon, a friend of mine has my exact same setup but with a 4770k and he gets about 10 avg fps more in most games, fuck sub 60 fps drops

15/16
laptop was built for windows 10 which is why i have alot of issues with debian and bsd.

2008 iMac
Still running Snow Leopard. Has never been reformatted. There's probably bits still in there that carried over from my G5 iMac from 2004.

>AMD 8350
>GTX 770
>8 GB Ram
>a broken front port
>really the Antec 900 is just a dated case in general
>Dell U2415 + another old Dell 1440 x 900.
>120 GB SSD + 1 TB WD Black

I'm pretty comfy desu. Just wouldn't mind a second nvidia card so I can do GPU passthrough. AMD card + nvidia card doesn't play well together it looks like In Linux :(

Thinkpad X220T as side machine.

It's getting there.

When I get my financial aid refund from school next semester I'll probably buy pic related, maybe change to Zen if it's any good, and gift current build to the GF for photoshop since her laptop is a piece of shit and she is always using my PC anyway.

Not really a fan of the EFI shit, but that Old World ROM Mac with the Viewsonic Monitor is pretty fucking comfy. What's with the USB hub, by the way? It just looks like it's being used for the keyboard and mouse. Can't you plug those into the back of the computer?

It's not progress slowing down, it's people finally bothering to optimize their code so autists stop complaining about "planned obsolescence" when their 10 year old desktop stops working on the latest software.

Yup, all b8 m8

I kind of regret reformatting my Snow Leopard install twice. It would have been neat to see how a 6-year-old OS install would perform.

The 7500 is pretty gnarly. More than 20 years old yet with OS 8.6 it feels almost pseudo-modern. Most important of all, it can run Starcraft. Poorly, but it will run.

The hub is there because the iMac's USB ports actually don't supply enough power to run the keyboard. Needs a bit of added help from the wall.

2013 Asus laptop that is terrible but perfect for the desktop especially with monitor size
T420 2011
X200 thinkpad 2009
all pretty good

My system has been updated fairly piecemeal over the course of years, and as a result it's never too outdated

That being said, the 4770 that's in there has been a constant and I wouldn't consider that dated. Pretty much everything else in the system has been changed since its original spec

Built it this year

Intel i7 6700k
nVidia GeForce GTX 1080
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD
WD Black Series 2TB 7200 RPM
Says Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Mobo
Kingston HYPERX Fury Black 4x8GB

I'm fucking reich