Reply to post: Re: Pigs and troughs

Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick

Hubert Cumberdale

Re: Pigs and troughs

I've had the same Desktop of Theseus since 1999. I suspect that the last original part left it in about 2011. I think the current case and PSU date back to around 2007, while the motherboard & processor were swapped as recently as last year. Some of its (removable backup) hard drives are ten years old. Next on the list for change will be the decidedly-mid-range-in-2012 graphics card, which is still coping surprisingly well with driving three screens (two 1080p and one 2K). Old parts usually go on eBay, or, in the case of my oldest, smallest, and squarest monitor, to British Heart Foundation, where it sold for the princely sum of £5.

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