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I just replaced the last parts on my 20-year-old "PC of Theseus." (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 weeks ago by ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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To be honest, the case is still the original one, but almost every other part has since been replaced. Now, I’ve taken it back to the shop where I bought it 20 years ago and asked them to upgrade the motherboard, CPU, and memory - the last of the original parts.

So, is it still the same computer?

I also like that I can just keep replacing parts on an existing product rather than buying an entirely new device each time. That's exceedingly rare feature these days.

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[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, the question would rather be 'when does it stop being the same thing?' It quite obviously no longer is if every single part has been replaced.

Also, depends on what one means by 'the same computer.' The computer I've been using for the past several years mostly still remains. Some of the parts have been replaced a long time ago of which few have been there longer than the original.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

The question would be more like "how much of the same thing it is?".

And kind of off-topic, but what are your current mobo/CPU/RAM specs? I'm asking because I did the same recently, changing quite a few parts of my computer.

[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

I honestly don’t remember the exact details. I haven’t gotten it back from the shop yet, and they didn’t give me a parts list with me. Since it’s not my area of expertise, I just trusted their judgment on the parts. My budget was around 350 euros. I use a MacBook as my daily driver, and this PC is just for occasionally playing 10-year-old games. My main goal was to regain upgradeability with the motherboard swap, as my current one didn’t support modern components. Atleast RAM.

As far as I recall, the motherboard was an ASUS TUF Gaming something, with an Intel i5 processor and 16GB of RAM. I upgraded the GPU a few years back to an Nvidia GTX1660S

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

Got it. I hope that you got a motherboard with a recent-ish design then, it'll help a lot with future upgrades.

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