wrote:True. I always forget that we are very small minority. The general public just buys a Dell, Acer or HP Desktop set and when it gets to slow or bogged down with viruses they buy a new one 😀
Then one of us goes around on garbage day, picks it up, cleans out all the viruses and crapware and keeps using it. 😜
wrote:Since 2001 I have used the same case for my main PC. Every 1.5 years I have upgraded the RAM and maybe the Video Card along with other devices like optical discs and hard drives and the power supply. When the cost for more than doubling my CPU and RAM performance dropped below $200 for the Motherboard, CPU and RAM replacement I made that move as well. In each case I considered the process upgrading my computer, but in some cases I considered it an entirely new PC. When I jumped over 1000Mhz in the upgrade, or at least doubled the cores of the CPU, I considered it a new machine.
It's not a new machine unless it's in a new case. 😁
