Postby spud » Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:25 pm
The oldest thing connected to my computer is my 24" Dell ultrasharp, everything else is brand new and probably not even 8 months old yet. I don't bother upgrading. My last PC was good for 3 years, and I foresee this new one lasting at least that long (with a likely GPU upgrade when the next gen is released). At the 3 year point you may as well just buy new everything. I've got 2 full systems sitting out in storage, neither are worth >$200 and none of the parts are worth salvaging (400GB HDDs, old GPU, old RAM). I'm much lazier these days.
If anyone wants to buy my old systems I can post specs for you. You'd be getting a pretty wild deal.