System Upgrade
My husband’s desktop computer is probably 7 years old at this point, which of course is absolutely ancient when talking about PCs. He would love to replace the whole thing, but we don’t have the money to do that right now. So hopefully he can just upgrade a few key components to get the system running a little better, which would allow us to put off a replacement unit for at least six months or a year.
Towards that end, we went shopping for video cards and extra RAM today just to see how much we’d need to spend on those things. Surprisingly, these types of upgrades are pretty reasonable, so I’m sure we’ll just go this route instead of getting a brand new computer.
The only problem with our plan is that we’ll probably end up having to replace two computers in a year or so because my machine is on its last legs as well. Why can’t these things last longer?!
If you take good care of a PC, there’s no reason why it shouldnt last 5 years or so… maybe even longer! Every three months or so I get a can of compressed air and just completely blow out my case, get all the dust out of there.
In my experience, letting your fans clog up with hair and dust leads to your computer overheating and burning out faster!