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How old your main pc is?

<1 Month 9 6.62%
 
<0.5 Year 15 11.03%
 
0.5-1 Year 23 16.91%
 
2-3 Years 48 35.29%
 
4-5 Years 27 19.85%
 
<6 Years 14 10.29%
 
Total:136

Depends how you classify my "main" pc. My newest PC is only 3 months old, but it gets less use (though works a lot harder) than my HTPC/Data Centre/Secondary Gaming PC which is around 3 years old now. I also have a laptop which would be around 4 years old now which probably sees almost as much use as my new PC.

So take your pick.



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I just bought a Dell comp 3 years ago and stuck a Radeon HD 2600XT in it.....I'm in need of new comp.



main is less than a month...

my laptop that fried in Dec was 18 months old and the other PC I have dates from June 2003 (was my main before).



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About 4 years now the selfbuilt, but Im on my laptop more.



My retired PC has to be about 7 or 8 years old. I just use the laptop (a little over a year old) now.



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The PC I'm currently using was build at the end of 2003. So it's over 6 years old. Since I have a 360 I'm not so much in need of a new computer. But it's running quite slowly nowadays. When the new generation of consoles is announced I'll probably buy a new gaming PC, since consoles are too expensive (imho) in their first year and have a small game library.



Squilliam said:
Cypher1980 said:
Built 18 months ago as a power saving PC.

Fully loaded but with a fanless GPU and fanless CPU heatsink.

Whisper quiet and 2/3 the energy pull of my last PC.

Ohhh details? Im curious about building a proper HTPC.

I'll try to dig out the details but no promises. It was a long time ago.

Basically I used a low power PSU and all in one MB coupled with a Low Energy AMD x2 chip.

The heatsink is a monster over the chip. About 6 inches high and 4 inches square at the base.

Lots of fins and copper pipes is the order of the day. It came with a big clip on fan but after a little experimentation I ditched it as the idle temp on the busy core #1 was 38C and even under load (not what my PC was designed for so no really a huge consideration) 52C

So now I have a whisper quiet PC and I recently upgraded to a Green Spin 1TB drive to further its low energy footprint.



custom built 3 years old and still running strong.



Cypher1980 said:
Squilliam said:
Cypher1980 said:
Built 18 months ago as a power saving PC.

Fully loaded but with a fanless GPU and fanless CPU heatsink.

Whisper quiet and 2/3 the energy pull of my last PC.

Ohhh details? Im curious about building a proper HTPC.

I'll try to dig out the details but no promises. It was a long time ago.

Basically I used a low power PSU and all in one MB coupled with a Low Energy AMD x2 chip.

The heatsink is a monster over the chip. About 6 inches high and 4 inches square at the base.

Lots of fins and copper pipes is the order of the day. It came with a big clip on fan but after a little experimentation I ditched it as the idle temp on the busy core #1 was 38C and even under load (not what my PC was designed for so no really a huge consideration) 52C

So now I have a whisper quiet PC and I recently upgraded to a Green Spin 1TB drive to further its low energy footprint.

Thankies!



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Qty Product Description QuickFind Cost (ex VAT) Line cost
1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (2.1GHz) Socket AM2 Energy Efficient L2 1MB (2x512KB) Cache OEM Processor 133145 £32.39 £32.39
1 x MSI K9VGM-V K8M890 Socket AM2 onboard VGA 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard 117990 £25.52 £25.52
1 x Kingston 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Non-ecc CL5 Unbuffered 1.8V 129954 £24.11 £24.11
1 x Scythe Ninja-PLUS Rev B Socket 478, 754, 940, 775, 939 & AM2 CPU Cooler 127437 £25.25 £25.25
1 x Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound 135613 £2.78 £2.78