My old faithful PC

2012 build
3.10 gigahertz Intel Core i5-2400
Board: Intel Corporation DH67BL AAG10189-209
16GB RAM
mid life upgrades - 500Gb WD blue SSD, RX580 8GB GPU, Windows 10 Pro
 
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I am ****ing 49 years old
Did you think I am into gay Jason Donavon kak?
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You drink pineapple beer, you are pretty much a yuppie metro woke sexual, no ?. Yes even 9 years your junior I can't stand this cat barf they call music, I have their double disc special edition, with the second disc being live performances, my fav has to be every thing counts, from the live performance and behind the wheel and shake the disease from studio recordings.....
 
I bought everything here with money I saved up while working after I finished school and while attending my first year of uni.

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2016 build
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I have bad luck with motherboards, I ended up buying a Dell vostro 3900 with an i3 inside from Facebook marketplace (eww I know), swapped it out with my i7 and been using that ever since.
CPU: i7 4790- 4Ghz non k
Cooler: Stock
RAM: 12GB DDR3 1600Mhz (8GB Some samsung kak I found in a dead server + 4GB ripjaws, the other 4GB is sitting in a HTPC.
Storage: 240GB Samsung Evo 860 SSD
4TB Seagate HDD
3TB Seagate HDD
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Display: Dell se2419h 24" display
GPU: I'm a poor student so its just the intel hd 4600 graphics for now. Please help :ROFL: :crying:
PSU: Corsair 450W (The fan spins really loud sometimes, I've cleaned it out completely which stopped it for a while but it started doing it again.)

Majority of my buddies are working full time and don't plan on studying, they took out loans to build their dream PC. The dream machine wishlist I came up with comes to about R150k but I need to squash my university fees first.:unsure:
Peripherals: Cheapie Microsoft keyboard and Logitech mouse.
 
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And here I am everyday with my Microsoft Intellimouse as my day to day mouse that I bought around 2002 maybe 2003, but it wasnt later than that.

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i7, 8GB, GTS450GS.. but hey it ran Cryis!

Still runs the original Win7 from installation, I'm honestly too scared to re-format it!
 
Built my PC in 2012 :
AMD FX 8320
16GB
120GB SSD
GPU I bought in 2015 : AMD R9 380

Still plays the latest games, medium to high settings.

EDIT: Planning on buying a 500GB SSD, so I can install the games on the SSD and not on my 2TB. Hoping it will make a slight difference.
 
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Still rocking my PC from 2014
Core i5 4690k
32GB DDR3
240GB SSD / 4TB HDD
Win 10 Pro
RTX2070 (Previously Gtx 970)

Recently upgraded to a Dell 2k 165hz gaming monitor, and it still runs smooth.
 
I'm still really happy with my old PC - built in 2013, but did some minor upgrades in 2019/2020.

Originally:
  • i7-4770
  • Asus Z87 Plus
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 2 TB HDD
  • 2 x Dell u2412m Monitors
About 1 or 2 years ago, I added:
  • Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD
  • Sapphire RX 570 (used for R2k)
The SSD is amazing, and the GFX allows many games to run just fine. I plan to get a larger SSD soon.
 
Also a 2013 build:

I build two of these (One for my son and one for myself as we used to game together).

Asrock Z87 MoBo
Intel i5 4670k 3.4Ghz
16 gigs of mixed ram now (or is it 24??) (I had crucial ballistix 2 x 8Gb but one module failed).
AMD R9290 card
Samsumg Evo 256 (The newest component)
Old seagate 500g HDD
Samsung 2333 Monitor

I haven't touched the PC in years as I travel and went the Laptop route but my daughter has started gaming a bit on it so I expect I might bump up the specs down the line as needed.
 
Core i7 870 2.9Ghz.
Bought it off a colleague many years ago when his wife told him to stop gaming..lol.

Runs all the games I've thrown at it, only struggles a bit with Arma3 which is CPU intensive.
It also survived a burst CPU cooler and lost a few pins when I was cleaning the CPU.
 
Mine is

Core i5 2500k
Intel 1155 motherboard (DP67BG)
16GB DDR3 Corsair XMS3 RAM
Cooler master Hyper212 cooler
240GB WD SSD
GeForce GTX....(it runs Kodi and Chrome)
2X 2 TB HDD's
1 TB

When she dies, then I'll upgrade.
 
Dad has an old Mercer first gen i3 as an office PC still fast 10 years later

i3 550 @ 3.2Ghz
8gb ram
120gb SSD
Windows 10 Pro

Originally had 4gb ram and a 500gb sea gate hdd which works well for extra storage

Pretty impressive for its age
 
Looking back now it's insane to think that around the time the i5 2500K or similar launched 10 years ago we basically had enough computing power for most stuff to last for a decade or more.

Return on investment for hardware from that time is insane.
(Remember when a top tier PC build was around 10-15K, try getting away with that budget today, that's barely decent GPU money today)

I recently semi-retired my i7 3770 (was an i5 2500K for most of its life) for a small mini pc (Ryzen 4800H).
Granted, the new Mini PC slays it in terms of performance but to be honest, for most daily tasks and even hammering it with work (tons of open apps, database engineering, sheets, coding etc.) you'd be hard-pressed to notice a difference, even the NVME SSD that's leagues faster than old 1st or 2nd gen SATA SSD's don't really give you any day vs. night feeling that the benchmark numbers suggest.

Thing is, I retired it not because it was too slow or anything, I did it pre-emptively knowing that 11-year-old hardware must surely die at some point.

It's still running strong and I use headlessly for occasional gaming via remoting (using Parsec).

It even runs most Steam VR Titles for my Quest 1 just fine on a GTX 1070 bought 4 years ago for R2.6K (looks at today's prices and weep).

Like I always say, I think the proliferation of tech channels on Youtube and the constant competition for views etc. by showing off the latest and greatest are doing people a disservice by giving them the wrong impression of what you really need vs. what people implicitly make you think you need.
 
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... what you really need vs. what people implicitly make you think you need.
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That is one of the core goals and principles of marketing.... ;)

I don't know how you peoples manage to have dates on your PCs. Mine is a collection of odds and ends collected over the years - a 29" Dell 4k screen bought on a Black Friday special prompted a GPU upgrade, a failing RAM chip prompted a RAM upgrade,...

I think the only things that were bought at the same time were the MB, RAM and CPU.
 
Core i5 2500k
Asus P8z67 board
8GB Kingston HyperX 1666Mhz
Deepcool Iceblade Pro Cooler
480G Kingston SSD
GeForce 980ti
x1 2TB HDD
x2 1TB HDD

980ti and the SSD have been the only upgrades - still running stock clocks and still on the original thermal paste.
 
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