it’s fine up until you run into compatibility issues
Well once you pass the peak of mt stupid in this instance you have all the best hardware of the time…. So your old hardware is totally fine!
Old hardware is better
I miss the era of overclocking for easy performance gains. Pencil modding a Duron to an Athlon and increasing clocks by mounting a big fat copper heatsink and cranking vcore. You could save tons of money just by learning fun shit and having a modicum of technical ability. Now everything is dynamic clocks and power limits and it’s all so boring. My 5800X3D / 5090 rig absolutely tears ass but there’s no tweakability and I miss that shit.
The first boot of a computer during the era of jumpers for setting vcore was a tense experience. Will the magic smoke come out? Never did, but I always puckered up.
My five year old laptop can still runs most games, (although it’s getting quirky) and my four year old cellphone is going strong. I see little reason to update and I hope to get another 3-5 years out of them, barring major hardware failure.
5 years is nothing nowadays. I just upgraded from a 14 year old laptop to a 6 year old one, and the old one was still perfectly usable
on games, it’s always worth pointing out that old games don’t magically stop being good just because new ones come out.
If we completely stopped getting new games tomorrow, there’d still be enough games out there that you’d never run out of things to play, it’s just a matter of actually finding them.Oh for sure. I rarely play new games because I don’t have the time and because I own a bunch of older games I haven’t got to yet(The exception being BG3).
I will say older games are often graphically better in memory. Fired up Dragon Age 1 last week and it looks so old now.
true, but then that doesn’t really have much to do with how old a game is, it’s mostly down to whether they put effort into the graphics.
Same. I recently changed the battery on my 6 year old laptop. Works still fine. No need to buy a new one
Me too! I hoped it would fix it from turning itself off when it isn’t plugged in. But it still isn’t working, so some other connection is naf.
I’m no expert, but have you tried to change the CMOS Battery? After I haven’t switched my laptop on for some time, it would bootloop 3-4 times before turning on. Changing the CMOS battery did fix it for me.
Oh wow, I didn’t even know that was a thing. Looking it up that might be the fix. My computer can’t keep time or date which is one of the side effects of a dead CMOS.
Thank you kind stranger!
