Windows 10 will still receive updates in the foreseeable future. Officially.

would it be worth much today

Not really. It's not late OC memory that is rated for 2400+.

Hardware values shares the same lifecycle as most things in life, if we compare it to a car for example.

1) As soon as you purchase the item it'll slowly depreciate as newer/better replacements become available however it still offers reliable transport.
2) It then reaches that point in life when repairs start to cost more then the cars resale, (or in computer terms can't run supported version of windows) therefore almost all value is lost as more people want to get rid of the item then buy it.
3) After a number of years of people dumping the item, they start becoming harder to find also nostalgia starts to kick in driving prices up again as it reaches "classic" status.

Your system is around step 2 at the moment, more people are throwing out this era hardware then collecting.
The motherboard supports Windows 7 which will be the next retro system phase we'll go though, the smart people are already collecting the parts now while demand and price are low, but it'll be good few years before it really starts and drives prices back up.

I would be keeping that chip\board\ram.

It supports windows xp, you can get all the drivers for the X79 chipset from ASUS's other X79 series. Pair it with a GTX980ti or Titan X Maxwell & you will have one of the fastest windows xp machines you can build. It will cover all games from 1998 to 2012+ plus you can still dual boot it..

GabrielKnight123 wrote on 2025-02-10, 19:12:

Because Windows 10 security updates will be stopping in the near future I will be buying a new rig for Windows 11 so I thought I should sell my PC before then to which I don't know why someone would want to buy this PC unless there's a use for Windows 10 when it runs out, will Windows 10 become like Windows XP where people will only use it for old games?

Run Windows 11 unsupportedly and kick the can down a few years.

I struggled a bit to get 24H2 on it, but I still have a BIOS/MBR dual-boot with WinXP and Win11 24H2 on an Ivy Bridge machine. Largely works fine even though this machine doesn't meet any of the Windows 11 posted requirements. 23H2 even ran fine on a 45nm C2Q in BIOS/MBR mode; I'm pretty sure the additional instructions required for 24H2 are the end of the road for the C2Q.

And my main rig is an i7-7700 just on the wrong side of the official requirement but that has everything else - TPM 2.0, UEFI, etc. Works fine too. And it's sad to say this, but the way the market is right now, I'm not really in a rush to upgrade - I've been a huge intel fanboy for 25 years and... well... Intel's lineup has been a disgrace for years and years now.

The Serpent Rider wrote on 2025-02-10, 19:45:

Windows 10 will still receive updates in the foreseeable future. Officially.

would it be worth much today

Not really. It's not late OC memory that is rated for 2400+.

I’ve gotta wonder why 16gb and 32gb ddr3 modules were frowned on, it’s not like they didn’t exist, I’m guessing because Intel is why 8gb was the thing.

rmay635703 wrote on 2025-02-11, 04:48:

I’ve gotta wonder why 16gb and 32gb ddr3 modules were frowned on, it’s not like they didn’t exist, I’m guessing because Intel is why 8gb was the thing.

Majority of users didn't need more than 32Gb of RAM on regular desktop systems. And they are not really frowned. LGA2011 Xeon motherboards combos from Aliexpress were pretty popular until recently.

The Serpent Rider wrote on 2025-02-10, 19:45:

Windows 10 will still receive updates in the foreseeable future. Officially.

The support for Windows 10 pro doesn't end the next october?
I've installed the ltsc version for nothing?

No, Pro version specifically will be dropped. Then again, Microsoft can probably change their mind and prolong Windows 10 Home/Pro free support, due to very slow adoption rate.

thread title wrote:

Is a 64GB kit of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866MHz worth anything
today

No, it's totally worthless, so let me have it for $5 please. 😉

No seriously, I would use it if you did. 😁
Most of my DDR3 machines are scraping by with just 4 GB of RAM and occasionally 8 GB when I get 2x 4 GB modules. The real "fancy" ones get 12 GB - 2x 4 GB and 2x 2GB. Only that way I have enough 4 GB sticks to divvy it up more equally. 🤣
As for the highest I have: my Dell Precision T-7500 with 12x 2 GB modules for a total of 24 GB.

But that's OK, because pretty much all of my machines except for one, are with either Windows XP or Windows 7. Not really planning to adopt Windows 10 or 11 anytime soon, if I can avoid it / if Windows 7 can get me by. As for security updates - who cares?! It's not like I'm a company with lots of personal info + finances or a billionaire individual.