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"Are PC's shortlived?"

Well some people should know that their pc goes out of date quickly i had a 'up to date' pentium 500mhz pc and it cost loads, a few weeks after a faster processor comes out.
Okay i kept the pc, added a new video card and RAM but then my hard drive begins to fail on it.
So then my brother brings back a computer which he bought from someone who build his own pc's so then every is working fine, i buy a Geforce 2 GTS just to be able to play what i like (tactical ops) and i put in my old soundcard as i didn't want to use the crappy onboard sound option.
Everything seems fine, until.... my psu fan seems to be dieing now, its not the HDD this time either.
I had the 500mhz pc for about 2-3 years and it was out of date within those couple of years, my bro bought this pc i'm using at the moment 2 years ago, and its been working perfectly fine until now.
The thing with computers is inside it gathers up so much dust, the components begin to fail.
I'm getting a whole new rig but i'm hoping it lasts a little longer than i want. And i'm hoping it won't be too out of date again in a few years.
I have a owned several consoles, and while the Gamecube wasn't out i had a N64 which i was happy with even if the PS2 and X-Box was out and more powerful I didn't care.
I'm just hoping PC's can have a longer running life , as i have had a NES and SNES sitting in a box that still works o.O

I've blown a the dust out of the PC 2 weeks ago.... but PSU fan is failing on its own.

OR buy the highly compressed air that will blow all the dust off, you can actually buy filers for you case fans or even an old pair of tights will do it.

c.b.

phi11ip wrote:
> I must do that, there's loads of fluff...
>
> How do I do it though? Can I just get a hairdryer or something?

I use a paint brush.

I put a extra fan in this one... and psu fan seems better now.
double fans... hell of alot noisy but ill get used to it.

Yeah man, everyone needs their own computer.

PSU fan is working atm.... but i still want my own 'high spec' pc so i can treat it the way i want... lol

Computers are resililant man, don't worry about it. If your PSU fan dies, it's not much of a problem, but to me it doesn't sound like it will you know. This is what fans do.

I'm trying to keep this alive as long as possible.. but they are knocking the case about, disrupting the flow of the fans and download spyware.

the CPU gets alot of crap on it... but even when people don't clean it they still work.
But its not my problem that the PSU fan decides to give me problems......
i have neva touched it o.O
So brings to the solution a new computer, and my own computer aswell.
As i consider shaking it about vibrating and i know my fans arent vibration free fans...

Dude they need their own PCs.

As for longevity...

Well my Linux box which now acts as a fileserver, services and Internet gateway is about 4 years old and I've never cleaned it nor had to *replace* any of the components once. The IDE bus is incredibly slow these days though.

Although I do now appreciate the value of cleaning. My temps had been rising to about 55c recently and I had to clock the CPU back by 12.5mhz to make it stable. Turns out the other day as I was swapping a burned-out network card that the heatsink had collected a gathering of dust + random crap that was blocking off a third of it. I cleaned it up and I'm back to healthy 42c again. Phew! I thought I'd burned out a few thousand transistors or something. Doesn't matter really, I'm buying a new CPU tomorrow :D