How long will my rig last?

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mobusta1

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Considering I do every now and than upgrades of the video card. How long will the rest of my hardware last me? I'm talkin about the CPU/RAM mostly. The other stuff is really negligible. This is related soley to gaming.
 
It should last you however long it takes for you to blow up.

Realstickly(bah too tired to care), its all fairly new high end stuff stuck on a 24" monitor. Frankly that will last you a while, how long? Till one of 3 things happen.

1. Something breaks, blows up, lights on fire, explodes, causes end of the world, kills you/
2. You obtain a larger monitor, one with a higher pixel density, or both.
3. Games come out that stress your VC and CPU past the point of their current bottlenecks taking the rest of your system in to consideration(Monitor, Ram, etc). Except for Crysis, its derivitives and perhaps alan wake(2009, Q2), I do not see this happening any time soon.
 
I agree, your good to go for a while IMO, i'm still going strong nearly 3 years later with the rig in my sig, only change i have made during the 3 years has been GPU upgrades.
I play everything but cryisis on full @ 1920x1200
I realise that its lifespan is coming to an end as far as top end gaming is conserned, but until i can't play games on full anymore with a GPU upgrade i won't upgrade the rest of my machine.
 
forever if you want it to. my relatives have pentiums that they still use, and they do nothing to try and keep them going. they dont care, and they last forever.
 
That hard drive will probably last you 7-10 years.. The PS 5-10.. The Solid State Stuff Will probably keep running for 50 years or so.
 
If HDD's last that long then what's the point of raiding? Is it just for the overly cautious fellows?
 
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