I was wondering when people consider themselves to have a new PC. Technically I’ve had the same PC for close to 20 years now, but every part’s been upgraded several times over.
I figure everyone’s got a different mind about it. For me, I’d have to say when all of the big three—CPU, GPU, mobo—have completed a phase, my brain thinks of the previous setup as “the old PC”.
Mobo because it’s like the keel of the ship.
Although it falls to the same problem if you swap in the exact same mobo lol.
according to microslop, when you change the mobo
This is just the Ship of Theseus.
Theseus’ battlestation
The PC of Theseus!
PCeus
Chip of Theseus
Technically my my PC is the same PC I used decades ago. It started as a Pentium 3 with… 64MB of RAM if I remember, and something like a whopping 10GB hard drive. It’s still the same PC of course, I swear!
I’m impressed the case has handled the changes. Cases back then weren’t much to work with.
I built my current PC in the very first case I had back in the year 2000. Everything fits and all the screw holes still line up with modern hardware. The only downside is that it does get pretty toasty under heavy load.
Pic
Ooh, ye Olde white box!
Just pop the side onto a drill press, add a few holes. That metal isn’t too thick
Not if you have pets. You’ll need a screen to stop hair getting into the case if you have cats/dogs.
I’ve taken to using window air conditioner filter material on all my boxes. Cut it to fit the intake and even taping over other intakes to ensure the air path is through the filter.
I hold it to the case with small neodymkum magnets. Once a month I rinse it out and put it back on. Case stays much cleaner inside.
That’s still easy enough to get at most home hardware stores.
I have scars still from working in sharp edged computer cases in the 90s…
I remember when I got a Voodoo 3d card with like 128mb of memory for my Pentium 233 WITH MMX. Played Ultimate Online like a boss.
Not very many Voodoo cards came with 128mb and only in the Pentium III/4 era. You may be remembering your total RAM.
After a CPU/GPU upgrade of more than two generations, each or combined, which usually necessitates a motherboard upgrade. Not always, but almost always.
Yea, motherboard is my metric. It’s what defines the base system capability.
mobo if it has no soul, otherwise storage
Replacing the motherboard.
I would’ve thought that too. But recently I had to swap a new mobo in after a failure and no other parts got done. Felt like the same PC just working again.
I’d say mobo and GPU changed is a whole new PC.
Yeah I think upgrading the mobo would be more accurate, when it’s a big enough change that you need to replace RAM and the CPU as well.
we got a hammer in my family thats over 1000 years old…
Definitely when I upgrade the mainboard + CPU, which usually also means new RAM. It’s pretty expensive, you have to change several parts in one go and it’s much more noticable in general usage than the GPU.
mainboard + CPU
To me thats the line. Unless you are like, a very active enthusiast, most people, once they get their CPU installed cooler installed, etc… you probably aren’t’ swapping that out. Its pretty much a computer at that point.
The case of PCeseus.
When the hostname changes. So, never.
I’m definitely reusing hostnames when fucking around with my Raspberry Pis, too …
We call that the Trinity in my family: mobo, ram and cpu.
MB/CPU/RAM
Without these 3 it’s just an upgrade.
2 out of the 3 of motherboard, CPU, GPU
When you upgrade the motherboard that’s a new PC.
What if it’s sitll using last generations parts aka with am4 going from B350 to B550. New motherboard, but completely capable of using the exact same old parts.
Hmmm… I’ve never upgraded a motherboard just to use the same CPU and RAM. I’ve upgraded CPU and upgraded RAM and considered it the same PC, but when I upgrade the motherboard it’s for more modern CPU sockets and DDR generation and PCIE version.
Are people really upgrading motherboards and using the same CPU and RAM?
Maybe I’ll change my opinion to new motherboard/CPU at the same time?
