How long should a decent motherboard last?

[klrman]

ASUS advertises on one of their boards a 5,000 hr Solid State Capacitor life. So if you run a pc 24/7 would that mean it will last around 209 days? What am I understanding wrong here?

 

[bob hays]

That's just what it's guaranteed for not what you could expect. I don't know about running 24/7 but with general usage motherboards should last at least 5 years. Most of the time the cpu becomes outdated and requires and upgrade before the motherboard goes out.

 

[klrman]

Oh, I see thanks. Was just wondering as I have two 14 year old dells that we use to use for business and they are still running fine, so I keep them around still.

 

[bob hays]

Yea, I have a 10 year old computer that I am running windows 7 off of and it works fine, a bit slow but just fine.

 

[smorizio]

some vendors use words as sales spifs. some mb vendors say they use military spec parts. older mb use to use paste caps and they used to leak after a few years. the newer mb dont have that issue. as long as you use a good mb and power in your area is clean and dont have brown outs or spikes a pc mb should last you a long time.

 

[middlemarkal]

anymay solid state capacitors are much better then the old liquid ones. so don't be afraid for that.

 

[klrman]

some vendors use words as sales spifs. some mb vendors say they use military spec parts. older mb use to use paste caps and they used to leak after a few years. the newer mb dont have that issue. as long as you use a good mb and power in your area is clean and dont have brown outs or spikes a pc mb should last you a long time.

I wanted to reply with your quote and ended up hitting the best answer button for you! Anyway, 5,000 hours sounded pretty good until I whipped out my trusty calculator and saw the facts.

 

[smorizio]

http://www.gigabyte.com/microsite/111/tech_070112_ud_whyusesolid.htm

 

[klrman]

That was a great link and explained everything I ever needed to know, thanks.