Sunshine@piefed.caMy gaming desktop has been going strong for 6 years.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksLets see, in terms of the “important” parts, my desktop is something like 14 years old. Ish. I’ve replaced the power supply after lightning, an hdd that died, and I think had to add an Ethernet port after that lightning hit too. But the mobo, pcu, and gpu are all the same.
The last thing replaced was the hdd, and that was….. Ahhhh, maybe five years ago? It was either right before covid hit, or right before it started getting bad, however long ago that was.
If you mean replacing the entire thing, that one replaced one that was around five years old.
In fairness though, the games I was playing back in 2015ish were well within my newer PC’s capabilities. I quit gaming once my back got bad enough that sitting there long enough to do anything fun made fun impossible. So after that, it turned into a music box for all intents and purposes. The various kids would maybe play roblox or something similarly mild on it, but that was it.
So, as long as not everything major dies, I won’t replace the entire thing at all, I’d just replace parts as needed/possible. Unless someone just outright buys me one after hearing me bitch about it being slow to transfer files, or whatever. I’m ata point now where I could game on it again, but I need to add a second drive to it, and I’m lazy/forgetful when it comes to hobby level stuff.
I’ve looked at upgrading the mobo and cpu, maybe increasing the ram too, but I can’t justify the expenditure when I’d have to use a credit card for any of that. Plus, chances are I’d buy the hardware and it’d sit around for six months waiting on me to have a great back day. So, I doubt it’ll happen.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org
About 8yrs