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What's the longest your rig served at the high end/stayed relevant in gaming.
- Thread starter Jacky60
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Current PC is 9 years old and GPU's are 5 years old. Only upgraded GPU's and the SSD since then. Can play pretty much anything in 1080P ultra and most things (apart from totally mental AAA titles) in 1440P with a mixture of settings unless it has bad CFX support, same story with 4K on some older titles. Fallout 4 runs well in 4K ultra for example.
Originally:
i7 2600K golden sample @ 5GHz
Asus P8Z68-V Pro
4x 4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3
GTX480 reference (hot hot hot!!)
40GB OCZ Vertex 2
XFX Pro 750W
Now:
CPU is at 4.6GHz, it is no longer 5GHz stable with the same volts.
40GB SSD replaced with a 256GB Samsung 830 a few years ago.
2x Sapphire Nitro R9 390 Tri-X 8GB's in Crossfire.
No plans to replace the core system.
Only failures I've had are fan bearings, on case fans and GPU fans. So I just replaced the fans. No drive failures yet touch wood, but I have nightly backups anyway so I'm not worried.
I replaced my Corsair H100 a few weeks ago after many years of loyal service because it was no longer performing well, and now have a Rajintek refillable AIO.
The "spare PC" which I use as a backup target is actually marginally newer than my main PC... With a 3570K and a Z77 board... I bought a complete "broken" PC earlier this year which had nothing wrong with it, for about £50. Up until then it was a 13 year old socket 771 workstation with a pair of quad core Xeons and 20GB of DDR2 ECC.
Originally:
i7 2600K golden sample @ 5GHz
Asus P8Z68-V Pro
4x 4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz DDR3
GTX480 reference (hot hot hot!!)
40GB OCZ Vertex 2
XFX Pro 750W
Now:
CPU is at 4.6GHz, it is no longer 5GHz stable with the same volts.
40GB SSD replaced with a 256GB Samsung 830 a few years ago.
2x Sapphire Nitro R9 390 Tri-X 8GB's in Crossfire.
No plans to replace the core system.
Only failures I've had are fan bearings, on case fans and GPU fans. So I just replaced the fans. No drive failures yet touch wood, but I have nightly backups anyway so I'm not worried.
I replaced my Corsair H100 a few weeks ago after many years of loyal service because it was no longer performing well, and now have a Rajintek refillable AIO.
The "spare PC" which I use as a backup target is actually marginally newer than my main PC... With a 3570K and a Z77 board... I bought a complete "broken" PC earlier this year which had nothing wrong with it, for about £50. Up until then it was a 13 year old socket 771 workstation with a pair of quad core Xeons and 20GB of DDR2 ECC.
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possibly my
i7 920
2x280GTX's
8GB RAM
served me well was a furance though!. the trouble is i switch my computers to early. i switch to a 3770K
HOwever my Current PC dont see it falling behind any time soon think it could last 7 years (GPU will be swapping to 3000s Soon though)
2950X TR @ 4.4Ghz
64GB 3200 CAS 14
1080TI
4x NVME 1TB samsung 970s
i7 920
2x280GTX's
8GB RAM
served me well was a furance though!. the trouble is i switch my computers to early. i switch to a 3770K
HOwever my Current PC dont see it falling behind any time soon think it could last 7 years (GPU will be swapping to 3000s Soon though)
2950X TR @ 4.4Ghz
64GB 3200 CAS 14
1080TI
4x NVME 1TB samsung 970s
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Have my current rig since 2014, no plans to change anything apart from GPU from a Titan Maxwell to a 3080 on custom water.