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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:54:56 GMT, "Bazzer Smith"
wrote: This is you main computer. I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post). To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months old). Why would it matter and how would you expect to get a good sample of user's systems by polling in only a computer hardware newsgroup? What I mean is, for someone's main system we'd expect that to be far newer than 10 years old in this group, but perhaps more interesting would be the oldest system they use at least once a year and what they use it for. I have a ton of old systems... though I think I threw out anything older than Pentium 2 era last year. I keep them around as parts spares for other people's systems, and testing purposes. Oldest thing running regularly is a Celeron 500 system as a fileserver... it just won't die. |
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
"David Fairbrother" wrote in message ... main PC is 5 months old. i have a p133 from 1996, old HP Pavilion 7222. hdd died in 2002 (i'm surprised how long it lasted) - HP made machines well back then. Well my new one is a HP so lets hope they still make em well. wrote: Bazzer Smith wrote: This is you main computer. The CPUs are ~1 GHz Tualitin Celeron and Sempron64 3100+, the cases full size AT desktops from 1985, about as large as full size ATX towers but designed for 11" x 17" motherboards. The original back panels were removed and replaced with pieces made to fit ATX motherboards and power supplies. I like desktop cases because the monitors sit at the perfect viewing height on top of them, and these old cases are made of metal thick enough to support their heavy 21" CRT monitors. |
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
"kony" wrote in message ... On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:54:56 GMT, "Bazzer Smith" wrote: This is you main computer. I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post). To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months old). Why would it matter and how would you expect to get a good sample of user's systems by polling in only a computer hardware newsgroup? What I mean is, for someone's main system we'd expect that to be far newer than 10 years old in this group, but perhaps more interesting would be the oldest system they use at least once a year and what they use it for. I have a ton of old systems... though I think I threw out anything older than Pentium 2 era last year. I keep them around as parts spares for other people's systems, and testing purposes. Oldest thing running regularly is a Celeron 500 system as a fileserver... it just won't die. It just relates to whether it is worth doing anythinig to extend the life time of a PC. It seems most will be obsolete before they fail. |
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
philo wrote:
snip i use a celeron 2.6ghz and a p-IV 1.6 ghz i use AMD whenver i can but the two machines i have were essentially freebies which i found in the alley near my house. You find Celerons 2.6ghz and p-IVs 1.6 ghz systems in your alley? Maybe you could tell me where you live and I could change my Celeron 850 for one of those "finds". I live near the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) and I'm sure most of the stuff is from students discarding their "old junk" Although the p-IV and Celeron were a bit beyond my average find... Next time I move, it will be near a university... hoping that it receives many students from UAE |
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:51:46 GMT, "Bazzer Smith"
wrote: Why would it matter and how would you expect to get a good sample of user's systems by polling in only a computer hardware newsgroup? What I mean is, for someone's main system we'd expect that to be far newer than 10 years old in this group, but perhaps more interesting would be the oldest system they use at least once a year and what they use it for. I have a ton of old systems... though I think I threw out anything older than Pentium 2 era last year. I keep them around as parts spares for other people's systems, and testing purposes. Oldest thing running regularly is a Celeron 500 system as a fileserver... it just won't die. It just relates to whether it is worth doing anythinig to extend the life time of a PC. It seems most will be obsolete before they fail. Lots of systems fail but are repaired, if/when the value of the system is higher than repair cost. If it relates to whether it's worth doing anything to extend the life, it would have a lot to do with what you'd do, how long you consider to be the useable life, and the value of the system. I suspect today's systems will have a longer viable lifespan than those from '96, at that point they were still sluggish running a basic GUI while today the most common applications run easily. |
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
"kony" wrote in message ... On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:51:46 GMT, "Bazzer Smith" wrote: Why would it matter and how would you expect to get a good sample of user's systems by polling in only a computer hardware newsgroup? What I mean is, for someone's main system we'd expect that to be far newer than 10 years old in this group, but perhaps more interesting would be the oldest system they use at least once a year and what they use it for. I have a ton of old systems... though I think I threw out anything older than Pentium 2 era last year. I keep them around as parts spares for other people's systems, and testing purposes. Oldest thing running regularly is a Celeron 500 system as a fileserver... it just won't die. It just relates to whether it is worth doing anythinig to extend the life time of a PC. It seems most will be obsolete before they fail. Lots of systems fail but are repaired, if/when the value of the system is higher than repair cost. If it relates to whether it's worth doing anything to extend the life, it would have a lot to do with what you'd do, how long you consider to be the useable life, and the value of the system. I suspect today's systems will have a longer viable lifespan than those from '96, at that point they were still sluggish running a basic GUI while today the most common applications run easily. Well my old system circa 1998 system still runs fine (was using it today), cost me £500 including monitor, and that was a 'rock bottom' system. The new system (minus monitor) cost £280, taking inflation into account you could say £200? (or less). It would be utterly pointless repairing my old system now if it failed, waste of time and money. (you can buy MP3 players with more memory!!!). I think I have to conclude that computers are now disposable items, if my new system failed I would probably just buy a new one!! ( I certaintly would pay to have it repaired, I would expect to do that myself anway). I think the truth is old systems only have a value as scrap metal, as indeed is the case now. |
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
Lots of systems fail but are repaired, if/when the value of the system is higher than repair cost. If it relates to whether it's worth doing anything to extend the life, it would have a lot to do with what you'd do, how long you consider to be the useable life, and the value of the system. I suspect today's systems will have a longer viable lifespan than those from '96, at that point they were still sluggish running a basic GUI while today the most common applications run easily. Well my old system circa 1998 system still runs fine (was using it today), cost me £500 including monitor, and that was a 'rock bottom' system. The new system (minus monitor) cost £280, taking inflation into account you could say £200? (or less). It would be utterly pointless repairing my old system now if it failed, waste of time and money. (you can buy MP3 players with more memory!!!). I think I have to conclude that computers are now disposable items, if my new system failed I would probably just buy a new one!! ( I certaintly would pay to have it repaired, I would expect to do that myself anway). I think the truth is old systems only have a value as scrap metal, as indeed is the case now. Indeed the 'case' is probably the most valauble part of my old system!! |
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
wrote in message ... On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:54:56 GMT, "Bazzer Smith" wrote: This is you main computer. I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post). To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months old). When a decent MB/cpu combo comes around I jump on it. Every 6mos -1 yr theres a clearance of a pretty good combo as prices are cut so its nuts to keep using some ancient system. I think its torture to use anything older than a 1 yr unless you are one of those users with really modest needs. However there are times when a 2-3 yr system can still be decent if certain things dont change much. My main system is a 3800 X2 dual core which was upgraded from a 3000 AMD 64 I bought last yearand Im still using the same motherboard after selling my CPU. Right now is a great time with prices really falling on both AMDs and INTELs this month - to upgrade. My other systems though were getting really old. The 2nd and 3rd systems are the ones that tend to be OLD. I had an Athlon 1 gig whch I was using for years as a 2nd system. I upgraded it to a 1600 all last year and then sold that and upgraded to a 2800 sempron which I bought for two systems. The other one replaced a 1.4 Tbird which was in use for the last couple of years for a person who mainly just used it for the net and word processing etc. Since you can get a combo sempron and MB for $60-70 now its kind silly not to upgrade unless you are on a really tight budget. I aslo have another 3200 AMD 64 system since I got that on a killer deal. You find so many great deals the last 2 years its hard to justify not upgrading unless you REALLY dont care much about PCs and are a real light user. I got a 9600 though a weird variant with only 64 megs for someone for $22 the last month. Yes but be honest, what are you going to use those old systems for? Yea a 1 gig system would be OK for a lot of stuff, but basically switching it on is a waste of electricity!!! |
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
Yes but be honest, what are you going to use those old systems for? Yea a 1 gig system would be OK for a lot of stuff, but basically switching it on is a waste of electricity!!! Anything in the pentium 1 class is a perfecly good Internet/Word processing machine. I should point out that the power consumption on computers has risen over recent years, with better performing chips. THe indirect evidence to this is the monster heat sinks we see on new machines. Meaning that the 1 gig machine will waste less juice than the latest p4. You'd have to run a statistical analysis to prove this, but I suspect it's true. As long as you have no need for the latest games, or whatever mulitmedia stuff. There's no super pressing reason to replace a working older system. |
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer.
"Bazzer Smith" wrote in message ... This is you main computer. I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post). To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months old). hard one to answer. as I build and upgrade my pcs. the last one I built from scratch was 1year and a half years. but been upgrading graphic / memory / hdd / sound over time (mb and cpu stayed the same (3ghz)). the last upgrade was apx 3 months ago for sound, uppered graphic from 5900fx to 6600 6 months or more . |
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