How long can a computer really last you before it's obsolete?

How long can a computer really last you before it's obsolete?

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there was a lot of progress in monitors recently so older monitors are too fucking pixelated but you can read entire books on newer ones

this is bad news for old laptops

1280x1024 is still just fine

My And 64x2 system lasted me 8 years, finally made an upgrade 18mths ago when I'd given up on AMD ever releasing a decent chip again....Now I'm stuck with an i5 an jelly af.

AMD 64x2*

when it stops booting, or can't run the software you want

how is this even a fuckin thread

When you can't do what you want on it? Could be anywhere between one and 20 years.

The AMD FX-8350 is great.

You fell for the intel fud, idiotr

So ten years average

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Pretty much when it's not supported anymore by any OS because of the aged hardware. At that point it's just a glorified calculator/notepad

It's perfect actually

This depends on how hard you want to distort reality. All you need to do is get on some circlejerk IRC, and soon you can go full neo-luddite and stay in whatever decade you want. Because you don't perceive any change, you can stay there forever becoming exponentially more of a stupid hippie.

Don't know if you're serious or not but my 8350 is still serving me well. That being said I don't play vidya.

That resolution was never fine lmao

2011-2012 CPUs are still "good enough", specially the ones that could be OCed"

It's all about return on investment, same as with a car or tools. The more you put in the more you should get out so forking out for a quad core back when everyone was still insisting C2Ds were fine meant you could continue to use your Q6600 even to this day for any everyday task. I know if I didn't have to sell my Q9550 box when I moved I would still be using it now as a media box.

If you put good money into a PC even 10 years ago it should still be relevant today

>before it's obsolete?
Define obsolete please.
Yes it is. (not for gayming though. And i literally mean GAYming, not good old games. Try to get comfy again playing fallout, baldurs gate and other games on anything different than 4:3)

It is only obsolete when it is no longer performing the task that it was designed for. If that is high performance gaming, then it could be obsolete in a couple of years. If you use it mainly to watch porn, then the lifespan increases to whenever the current standards are completely phased out. And even then you could convert all movies to a format that your current hardware can handle.

Depends what you're using it for.

My system has an i7 2600k that can still cut it. Had it since 2011

This desu
My 1st gen llano APU is still working fine, great for everyday usage

5 years and going strong.

Modern vidyas are surprisingly well-optimized and run on medium-high.

muh /sandybros/

A long time. I know people that still happily run C2D based systems. Perfectly fine for web browsing.

3-10 years depending on what you use your computer for.

ayyy

I'd say a setup with i7-960 OCd to 4GHz and 16GB RAM is still sufficient today. Only the GPU has evolved enough to become obsolete from that generation, and that's only if you play latest games. Dota 2, CS:GO, LoL, WoW, and many other popular games still run very well, even with GTX 480.

Theoretically, hardware should last forever unless you have moving parts (HDD), then after that you have hardware degredation from your power, if you have brownouts/surges or an unstable voltage it could damage your hardware over time, an online UPS (which itself does degrade over time) will protect you from this degredation, even without it however your hardware should last for years and years.

Another factor is manufacturing quality, the quality of the materials used will also determine how long capacitors will lost and so on, don't forget to keep your machine clean of dust so that the microprocessors don't start throttling to not overheat.

Unless something amazing happens, im probably going to still be using this t420 on its 10th birthday and maybe even 15th.

>popular games still run very well, even with GTX 480.
this is why they are pushing for 4k... so that we keep spending money on shitty hardware that's needlessly demanding

There hasn't been any need to upgrade your computer since about 2005 except for muh graphics.

>sunday, on summer Sup Forums

My strategy is to purchase all my parts second hand and sell the old stuff before it's totally unusable. Right now I'm running 4790K, 2400MHz DDR3, EVGA OC 1070, 600W Seasonic PSU and I paid around 700 bucks for everything, if I deduct the selling price of the old components it's even less. Usually a full update ends up costing around 400 every 3 years.

Just don't fall for the brand new parts meme and be ready to wait more than a day for good deals.

If it's from 2008+ it will probably last forever, unless you doing some heavy task.

7 years

>forever
nah
But I can't imagine a Q6600 being obsolete anytime soon.

10 years last support software
15 years software begins unable to make simple task

Yep, it's all a conspiracy. Want to know what else is a conspiracy, choosing your own resolution

does it boot?
then it's not obsolete.

This.

In 2005 my 6 years old PIII 450 was useless.
Now my 7 years old i7 860 is still very responsive.

pssht don't say that you can do such a thing as choose your own resolution, keep him thinking that he has to use 4k after all how am i supposed to earn money out of my nvidia and amd stocks when noone is buying unnecessary hardware

Home use for power users: 12-15 years (This people will use a light OS with enough tweaks to make it as efficient as possible)

Home use for normalfags: 5-10 years (People who install literal malware and bloatware in a daily basis in the latest Microshit version

Home server: +20 years, but depends on your needs (You can still run a light server in a 486 in text mode or something of the sort)

Work for power users: 3-7 years depending on the kind of task

Work for normalfags: 2-4 years tops without it becoming painful to use

Corporate server: 1-5 years, depending on the load and kind of use

Gayming: 6 months to 7 years in average, depends in what and how you play, some modern games still run in a Core 2 Duo with a 8800GT in 720p, perfectly playable.

2011 here.
it was a 1100 $ gaming computer and its still awesome for normal use. gets about 30fps on gta 5 at low/med settings

What graphics card? I can't play it with a Radeon HD 5870 (2010).

i7920 still slinging dick, will be for years yet to come.

I'm still using my 9 years old computer. Only upgraded the ram once from 1gb to 3gb.

asus 6950 dc 2gb
the thing is fucking huge and the performance sucks.

How many parts can you replace before it's not considerable the same computer anymore? Because hard drives last at most 5 years, then you have to change them

using my 2500k build since 2011, running everything maxed 60fps until very recently.

now waiting for ryzen parts to arrive next week

When it breaks? If you don't have a lot of demanding use for it, no vidya or heavy media work, then modern hardware will last a decade at the very least before you need to think of replacing it.

>hard drives last 5 years

stop buying seagate retard

Macfags don't have a choice in this.

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8GB's of RAM oughta be enough for anybody.

>hard drives last at most 5 years
[citation needed]

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Using 2012 CPU & RAM, 2017 mobo, 2006 GPU and 2008 HDD.
Planning to upgrade GPU and purchase SSD in addition to HDD, other parts are just fine.

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I dunno how long OP? I still have to buy these for work.

With these day's hardware, 10 years.

I intend the one I just built to last me at least 5. 1800x, 1080ti, 32GB RAM.

e8400 + 960 gtx is my htpc right now, gpu is overkill for a htpc it was my old desktop card, in htpc fan never even spins up and it plays anything i've thrown at it flawlessly

Lol at least. In 2012 I got

>FX-8320 + Motherboard
$99 total at Microcenter Black Friday sale
>7870 GHz
$120

and I have 6GB DDR3 RAM from random parts. It's lasted me 5 years so far and could probably last another 5 easily, probably closer to 10.

im still using a i5 2500k and i have never overclocked it.

>How long can a computer really last you before it's obsolete?

I still have a i7-2600 and about 8 gb of the slowest ddr3 ram. The only upgrade I've made is a 1050 ti and a bios update. The entire thing cost me about 190 bucks and it crushes games like triple A titles, arma 3 (which is notorious to be fucking hard to run) on almost a full ultra at a solid 55-60 fps. So don't listen to some gayming cuck that you need a 1.5 k setup lul

had my current rig bout 3 years, gonna be upgrading as soon as i can get my last few parts. im too emotional to leave it tho cause we been throu so much togther. so gonna install gentoo and give it a easier life in retirement ;-;

my own pc is from 2008 I think.

Recently had to do computer stuff for some extremely tech-illiterate relatives who use a desktop running XP 24/7 for the last 14 years or so to manage some livestock feeding machine and also use that computer as a desktop.

>chrome

speaking as a former 1050Ti owner, ultra at 60FPS is a top laff, m8.

You are now aware that to this day people automate the living shit out of industrial plants using 8-bit computers based on 6502 -- the processor line the NES had -- and that it can support hard real time applications and is still in production and being sold by the truckload worldwide.

These days, quite some time. We're not making rapid advances that allow you to do appreciably different things like we were in the 90s and early 2000s. People who bought 2500/2600Ks are just now thinking about upgrading and they probably don't REALLY need to.

Laptops are a different story. Those things age in fucking dog years for some reason.

Not all laptops. A well kitted T420 from six or so years ago is still viable today for most purposes. Shit laptops age in dog years but decent ones can last forever.

I have one and it definitely helps that I could replace the HD with an SSD, add an extra stick of ram, and use a HD caddy to add a second hard drive.

I wonder how more recent ultrabooks that have zero hardware access will go.

That's a fair point. Mine is fitted with 8 gigs of RAM and a solid state drive that it didn't come with, but that's also not anything it couldn't ship from the factory with.
I think there's a very easy false economy to fall into with laptops on account of their relative difficulty of repair and more locked down hardware. A good quality laptop is one that can last you years without issue these days. You cheap out and you get what you pay for. And what you then have to pay to replace it in two years. And so on.

>How long can a computer really last you before it's obsolete?

Depends on the time period. Now? Probably a decade.

Late 90s/Early 2000s the hardware was advancing and software expanding in scope so fast that you struggled with the latest software a year or two later.
Today all that practically crashed to a halt so you can still get by with a Core 2 Duo from 2007.

2005? Pentium 4 space heaters? lol no.

My C64 boots, can I run Crysis on it?

motherboard desu
if not for muh responsive design even a 20y/o machine running lynx and vim under linux would've sufficed

>at microcenter getting stuff for new build couple months ago
>guy is talking to staff member in hardware section
>wants to upgrade build for VR
>mentions he has an 8350
>says it's more than good enough because "it's at 4.6Ghz"
>obviously no idea about IPC or the other minutia of CPU performance, just muh clock rate
>mfw the staff member had to listen to this for like 30 minutes

oh i did not know that something not being able to run crysis makes it obsolete.

but user, emachines are never obsolete

>ublock origin

>there was a lot of progress in monitors recently so older monitors are too fucking pixelated

That's adorable. Tell it to my FW900.

You can get an easy 20 years on a high-end PC running Linux.

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>Late 90s/Early 2000s the hardware was advancing and software expanding in scope so fast that you struggled with the latest software a year or two later.
what a time that was
on one hand it was exciting to see large, noticable changes every year
but on the other hand, your pc was unable to keep up extremely quickly

reminds me of getting a new pc in 2000, and being able to run ms combat flight simulator 2 maxed out at 1280x1024 and everything, no sweat at all
but come 2002 with mscfs3, and it struggled to run it well whatsoever

-- oh, and by 2003 that was it for new games
my gpu didn't cut it, and no agp slot sealed that machines fate
the best it could do was low graphics in very flexible engines like UT2003

An 8350 can do VR.

mine still works fine

Depends on your definition of obsolete. Where I work, we still have two press brakes, one cnc plasma cutter and one cnc plasma/oxy cutter/driller that all run XP. The press brakes don't even have a network connection, and the others only run the manufacturer's application and pull data (think .dxf files) off a network share. They all still work fine, and upgrading them would be a massive pain.

Hell, the hardware in the press brake controllers is so old that it can't even turn off within software, it still shows the "it is now safe to turn off your computer" screen and then you have to kill the mains.

Embedded & industrial control stuff is different, though. It was built to do one very specific job, and as long as doesn't break, it'll be fine doing that specific job forever because the constraints won't change.

Hell there are all sorts of industrial processes out there still running software on things like DEC PDPs that were powered up before most of Sup Forums was even born.

I'm fairly sure the American military still has a few mainframes from the 60's kicking around, simply due to the fact that they're absolutely mission-critical and rewriting the code, testing/debugging and deploying would be insanely expensive. That's why I said "depends on your definition".

The plasma/oxy cutter/driller I mentioned earlier works just fine for its intended purpose, but it's possible to open a browser window on it. The hardware is so outdated that trying to load anything beyond a super-basic (think late 90s) page causes it to eat all its RAM, max out the CPU, the cutting torch movement will get janky and it'll ruin whatever it's trying to cut.

As a general-purpose computer it's got no chance, but an an embedded controller it's fine.

I could still browse the internet with this. And maybe some PS1 emulator and very light gaming.

My 2600K setup is showing no signs of being obsolete. Still plays all the latest games at 60fps, which is all I care about. Upgraded it with a GTX 1080 last year.

still using core 2 duo.

My desktop still has an Athlon 2 at 2.8Ghz in it. It still runs most vidya perfectly fine although hilariously my Thinkpad (which is now my main PC on a dock) has better secs in every field except graphics; Intel HD3000 vs GTX770)

At work we used a Commodore 64 for balancing wheels until very recently.

Depends on the use you put it to. A 486 could still be useful for certain tasks.

>poastin' from P4 3.4 GHz WinXP 2.5 GB DDR RAM circa 2004
> my sacrificial web surfer/basic email & shit
> anything goes wrong, just re-image SSD in ~15 min

Got the system leaned down sweet, dual 24" 1920x1200 monitors GT 430 GPU. Plays FLACs all day, plays any video/anime encoded at 720 and a large selection of 1080 encodes, and a box full of Age of Empires/Total War/Thief era video games (on the rare day or two a month I have time for them). Plus ChessMaster.

System is responsive, moreso than an i5 2.2 GHz laptop with Win7 & 5 GB DDR3 RAM. I fully expect 3 or 4 more years out of it before something breaks that isn't worth time/money to fix.

Huh, that reminded me. Back in 2010 they decommissioned a long-running UHF-based pay-tv system here (it used videocrypt). I can't find the article, but the broadcaster mentioned that they were still using 386's for headend encryption at the time (I'm not sure if that's at the distribution level or the site transmitter level). They had to reset the clocks on them every year since their software never got any Y2K patches. Aside from that, they still worked.

i used to use a videocrypt decryption program to get access to those UHF-based pay tv channels, at least until i got broadband internet access

Are you installing POS patches?

I remember that. It needed a BT878-based card. From memory, the system scrambled the picture and sent a seed with it, the seed got fed into a PRNG on the smart card which outputted the decryption "key" (not really a key but effectively the same thing). Eventually desktop PCs were powerful enough to just straight up brute-force decryption in real time.

Man, the 90s really were a different time.