• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    My 2012 desktop PC died the other day.

    I took out all her parts and determined that the fault was with the power supply and with a wonky pci shield on the wifi card. Replaced the psu and straighten the shield with pliers, reapply thermal compound for fun, and bam, shes back.

    Its an i73770k lga1155 socket, with 16g DDR3 RAM. They dont make lga1155 sockets anymore, or DDR3 ram, so I would have been out $1600 to replace the CPU, motherboard, and RAM.

    But now, she might have another 5 years in her yet. Im determined to keep her around until she’s old enough to vote at least.

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      5 months ago

      I’m pretty sure you could get a full brand new desktop that is more powerful for much less than $1600…

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        5 months ago

        Probably, but I wouldn’t settle for something that’s just more powerful, Id want to spend the money to get higher-end current-gen hardware that will last me another 15 years, including upgrading to a good M.2 drive and better GPU. In AUD Id probably be spending at least $2k.

        In fact I still have the birth certificate for my current PC, and I spent $1500 on it in 2012 dollars.