Yea thats usefull when that happens. I only had a very few times i wished i had one to bring to work with me when things went slow but alas.
Indeed a 5 year cycle seems to be the magic number for having newer ones.

Hmm recently ,i would say like 2y ago since the old one sorta just went kaput. I bought this one to just keep going so it wasen't a very huuuuge upgrade plus the people at the store i bought it from said my pc then whas already old and outdated.

Hmm i woulden't say slow, windows is on an ssd. Just most games these days i can hardly run now and the latest i wanted to try i needed a windows 8.1 version as a minimum. Others like overwatch just make it scream just standing in the character select screen. Witch is odd as i played it before with no problems.
So yea, am aiming to at least play the cyberpunk game at high rez and sutch.

So mostly for better gaming quality but since i use blender now and then it's also helpfull for that since now a render is like 15min and the cpu, i think, shrieks like crazy aswel as looking in the vieuwports has it all grainy and pixilated.

Indeed. Tough it's been ages i had a labtop that also lasted a good 8 years i think. But it's all pc case now and the ones i've been eyeing are like giants with tons of fans, coollers etc. I might need a new desk aswel to fit all of that everywhere.

I only have the desktop and it's 3 years old.. It's still running great but I always have an eye out for good updates.. My MB can only go up to the I9 9900 cpu I'm currently at I7 8700k.. So I'll probably run with that for a couple more years.. I can throw in a couple more 16 gig ram strips bringing total to 64 gigs. Currently at 32 gigs... GPU is 1080 Ti will be running that till the 2080 ti comes way down in price, which might be soon being that they are about to release the 3080 series....OS is on an SSD games and everything else is on 4 TB HD...Power supply is 1000w No upgrade needed for that beast...
All in all I have at least a couple more years before the MB and Cpu need updating if any...

Thats still decent at these times. Yea the GC are gonna change it seems so thats good for a new upgrade. Yea the drive space grows immensly these days. my SSD is 50gigs and the other drives are 1T each. So those need to go biiiiiig in the next one as am shure the future will get tons of stuff on it aswel. Plus it's so hard for me to throw stuff away XD.
Yea looks like it , problem is that those might upgrade over the years and if they do with big changes then those old parts don't fit on the new things. I believe i saw something recently with a power supply only using 8 pins instead of 12 and they had an exclusive MB for that since otherwhise it woulden't work. So lets hope thats not comming soon.
Also what cooling you have ?? Mine is just an alum fin block i think with a fan on that needs a regular dust blow out. The ones i look at have all these special big block coolers and some even liquid ones.

Im running a corsair HT 100 water cooler.. But I heard that Noctua comes highly recommended as a leading air cooler..

Yea those closed loop ones with a block to the fans seem more safer then those liquid filled ones. Oof thats one big block hanging on your MB and CPU ,i know it's designed for it and all of that but dang ,that be a big boi.
As long it aint 40°C outside i guess it can have cooler air XD

Mine is about the same age as yours XD
I'm currently sending money little by little to a friend that builds them to make me a new one!

Lots of parts are indeed a tad pricey but thats electronics for ya. Any idea what the ends speccs are gonna be?? Hope you send it fast becouse most things upgrade fastly these days.

Beefy.
That's all I know XD
He said that even in a year we'd only be updating a couple parts and they won't cost anything more.

Sounds nice, hopefully prices drop by then so it's even less.

maybe, but I'm budgeting for $1,500
I'll be paying for a bit XD

I can't remember what i paid for this one years ago but i do think along the lines of 1200€ Witch is a fair price for what it did and how long it lasted. A labtop i remember whas 800€ that also did it's work for years.
It's realy tought to pick or spend a decent ammount on something that could be used on something more suitable or neccesary.
On the other hand, i work my ass off , i deserve something awesome.
Plus am more of the plug and play person then spend hours trying to get the best deal on parts and put em together. Not that i can't , just afraid am gonna mess up with speccs and parts not working perfectly together and don't work at all in the end. So thats gonna be costly.

I have no knowledge of the inner workings of the computer XD

Me neither and looking at all the vids is headacke inducing. I just whant something that can play games with eaze for the next 5-8years.

If you're building a brand new rig, my method is to buy the best components you can afford. The better the components are today, the longer you can go without truly needing to replace or upgrade. If you decide the replace the monitor(s), try to buy a pair or three of the exact same model monitor. This helps since all the monitors will display precisely the same color in the same way at the same angles (or should, anyway.) Nothing wrong with Windows 7 if you feel comfortable with it, though Windows 10 can be made to feel a lot like Windows 7. Just remember that 7 is completely out of support so changes are next to nothing Microsoft will issue patches or hotfixes in the future.

I'm using a Corsair sealed CPU water cooler and radiator block. I almost never hear the fans running though with rendering, I would think you might.

And if you're feeling adventurous enough to try Linux, maybe rebuild your old computer with a well-supported Linux distro.

Yea thats the idea everytime XD Tech changes every week or so, to have a few frames faster or something more shiney and better. I never really upgraded, just new GC becouse the old ones broke and adding more diskspace.
I only had one all the time ,i've seen many with 2 to 3 ones. I honestly never needed that but i can see why as i alt tab a lot when am gaming in a dull moment and i think that fucks up something as i seemed to have been getting odd things happening lately. So one for staying in game and the other for looking up stuff aint bad or just watching youtube vids how to find secrets and finish lvls :p
Saw one on youtube , samsung odyssey g7 and 9 , those looks fun but mutcho € I'll think about it or just get a new one and this as the second.
I knoooow , i still get that screen popping up everytime to remind me :p I beleive i can't avoid it and just have to get used to a new os. Soon it's gonna dissapear like vista and xp plus there is gonna come new ones anyway.
Yea those seem to be popular and very usefull.
I'll try to look into that as i don't know anything about linux.