Question Have these recent hardware upgrades extended the useful life of my PC ?

[josefdoc]

Hey all,

My current build originally came with the following:

I5
RTX3050
500GB SSD
8GB RAM

I recently upgraded to:
RTX 4070ti
1.5 TB SSD
24GB RAM

I was just wondering how much longer I extended the life of my PC with these upgrades. The PC was built in Nov. 2022. And I made these upgrades about 2 months ago.

Thanks!

 

[Colif]

Which I5 is it?
what motherboard?

How long its useful to you depends on how you use it. If you play games you might need more storage at some stage. I added a 4tb drive last year.

Did you add ssd or upgrade to. You could use the 500gb as storage drive

 

[josefdoc]

Hi,

Here's my system specs:

Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
Installed RAM 24.0 GB (23.9 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
I added SSD. So I added 1TB to the already 500GB available.

Thanks!

 

[Colif]

https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...-12m-cache-up-to-4-40-ghz/specifications.html
its max speed same as mine.

I can't see anything on your system that would make you need to upgrade for a few years. But I can't see the future. Its not like its a slow PC now.

 

[thestryker]

Did your system have 2x 4GB memory modules and you added 2x 8GB or did it have 1x 8GB and you added 1x 16GB?

Is all the memory the same speed?

 

[Silas Sanchez]

Not a direct answer, but ways to extend the life of a PC:
- Get windows when its young and not at eol.
- Get a modular PSU.
- Image the OS so you can deal with errors and stability.
- Stay off the internet entirley, use a laptop for all web activity.
- Have a back up GPU and Mobo.
- Only play DRM free games so you dont become a victim of planned obsolescence.
- Overengineer the system so your PSU, CPU, and GPU are much more powerful than you really need.
- Dont waste time with water cooling and fancy RGB crap.
- Keep the system cool and dust free.
- Avoid OS & software updates like the plague as they are the work of evil and can easily brick or bug your OS. If it aint broke dont fix it!

That is a basic rundown of how my systems have lasted >20years plus and still very functional. But at some point human shameful greed gets you, like when windows 7 users got shafted by valve. No DRM=no being shafted.