My computer is ten years old. What now?

[cobito]

10 years is a significant amount of time when applied to any household appliance. A washing machine or a refrigerator that is 10 years old, starts to show signs of aging. Even so, they are still useful and the differences between what could be bought then and now have not changed much (except perhaps in efficiency).

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[Yorus]

The 775 platform is one of the most "stretchable" in history, especially from those that support Core2Duo, of course. If our motherboard allows it and we put a Xeon E5440 in it, we would go to these data:

Single-core: 1210 - Multi-core: 4043 - TDP: 80w

And it would cost us 20€, but there are even more powerful X5***.

If you already have to expand RAM, it's not worth it, DDR2 is expensive. If we also need SATA3 for SSD or USB 3.0, it's clear, but a change like this gives it extra life.

[Obione]

Damn, I sure did stretch my equipment budget. Damn glasses, I have violated my moral limit of 200€ on CPU and GPU through all the holes :ffu:

[Espinetenbolas]

There is a typo in the article… the motherboard for a 6800K should be an X99 (which is more expensive) it's not worth a Z170...

Another thing you should change from my point of view is the micro... I would put a 6700K which is cheaper and you can put a more powerful graphics card with those extra 100€.

Besides, they only consume 95W :troll:

Otherwise, the entry is very well done.

[whoololon]

At 8 years old I retired the 3200+ and it was because the graphics card exploded (literally) and I could no longer find a new AGP in good condition, only composite potatoes for office work and passive dissipation. There it is for me to tinker with something occasionally.

And if we talk about work computers, I have dealt with Pentiums 2 operating laser cutters, electronic pantographs, and in CNC machines for exporting machining.

When one stops wanting to play the latest, the worst thing that can happen to him is that something breaks that no longer has a replacement. :crying:

[Obione]

I used to spend very little, I wouldn't have messed up my life by blowing the platform. I spent about 60€ on micro and motherboard xD (Sandy 3700+ and E2180). On graphics I left 100 euros but look, from forcing they hit you with the hassle and the budget went up to 200. You get used to the good stuff and playing Metro or The Witcher at 30 FPS just right by lowering details tastes like too little.

The truth is that I think it's a good time to change platforms to something more or less nice, 200 euros for a 6500 and 300 for a 1060 are enough for a few years of addiction.

[cobito]

@Espinetenbolas:

There is a typo in the article… the motherboard for a 6800K should be an X99 (which is more expensive) it's not worth a Z170...

Another thing you should change from my point of view is the micro... I would put a 6700K which is cheaper and you can put a more powerful graphics card with those extra 100€.

Besides, they only consume 95W :troll:

Otherwise, the entry is very well done.

Thanks for the notice. The idea was to choose components that had a similar price to the previous PC, not to build a PC with the total cost of the previous one adjusting the cost of each component. But the idea was also that the components were compatible with each other. So I change the micro but I leave the graphics card since it costs the same as my old 7600gt.