Old Age

hi there, is it wise to buy a 7 years old gpu now in 2024? i was looking for a RX 580 (tight budget), i know about performance and age of it, but the concerning thing is does it last any longer? i mean suppose its been used in best conditions, how much longer does it gonna live? 7 years is kinda...

Hey folks, I'm looking to upgrade my wholly underpowered graphics card on a build I did in 2014. I currently can't afford a new system but a GPU boost would probably keep me going for a while yet and the machine was built with decent bits to begin with. I get that I'll probably need to upgrade...

Hi guys, First post on this forum. I am at my wit's end. My build is now at least seven years old. It is my first. It is (or was, at least) my old reliable. I never had any issues with it, disregarding occasional hiccups which mostly resolved themselves. Also currently I can't afford a new...

I have an old Acer Aspire 4315 which is just gathering dust on my shelf right now and I'm planning on repurposing it by installing a Linux Distro or ChromeOS . This laptop was bought back in 2008. Wayyy back when I was a kid. I don't think that I can upgrade the CPU (Intel Celeron M Processor...

I updated my age old laptop to latest windows 10, but now the ram usage is just to high, the CPU usage is high too and it's barely usable. How can fix this? I have seen seen videos of "Decrapifying" windows, how effective are they and are they safe? or is there anyway to downgrade my windows to...

Hi all, I know there are some similar discussions(which I’ve read) to this post. So apologies for that, just wanted to get some extra input on my situation in case anyway had some tips I had not thought of. About a month or two ago, my pc(5+ year old build) finally kicked the bucket during use...

Hello everybody! Today I found another interesting ancient piece of technology: zyxel P-870HW-51a v2 Now I'm at a village and got a Huawei b311s-220 from Orange on a contract for 1 more year. The signal strenght of this thing is horrible: I've got 2 or maybe 3 signal lines on my laptop if I move...

Hello everyone! I'm a "nostalgic guy" and really want to buy a retail version of old windows (like xp and vista) and I'm wondering if I can fully install it from a disk labeled as "upgrade" without any previous installations before (older than or same) as it would be much, much cheaper for me. I...

Hello! So a few days ago I found my first laptop ever (fujitsu amilo li 2727 ms2228) and when I powered it on it showed me a black screen with 2 white vertical lines and a small white spot in the right down corner. I remember some years ago when I powered it on it did the same thing and I...

Hello! So today I found my old laptop (fujitsu amilo li 2727 ms2228) and I tried powering it on. My screen is black with 3 white lines on it. Now I tried using my 1080p monitor to see if it boots but when I plug in the VGA cable and power on the monitor it says "Cannot display this video mode...

This build is over 11 years old. Updating it for my husband I have my own Rig that holds up pretty well with its 1080 Classified, but his needs some love. It can't handle much at all even on low settings anymore, and It almost constantly closes out of games randomly (I determined it has to be...

how would i be able to download an ISO file off a cd/dvd for xp/vista? i have the codes and the disks so i can do it non illegally. i would like to have them cause i have a vm that i would like to run old games/software but what program would be able to get bootable ISO file and if so would it...

I work in a schools IT dep and am trying to see if I can juice out a bit more speed out of these 6.5 year old machines some of the classrooms still have. Specs: os: win 10 education or 8.1 education cpu: i5-3570S (with integrated graphics) ram: 4gb ddr3 ethernet controller : Integrated Intel®...