I was wondering when people consider themselves to have a new PC. Technically I’ve had the same PC for close to 20 years now, but every part’s been upgraded several times over.

I figure everyone’s got a different mind about it. For me, I’d have to say when all of the big three—CPU, GPU, mobo—have completed a phase, my brain thinks of the previous setup as “the old PC”.

  • KristellA
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    2 days ago

    Weirdly, the case. If the case is the same, my brain doesn’t register it as a new computer, but the case changing makes it feel new even if the only thing that changed is the case