Shoutout to a real one. You lasted for 7 years.
My gaming PC
2016 - 2023
Heh I have you beat, my desktop is still running on a 3770k from 2012 :P
I’m sorry for your loss. 😔
I fried mine (along with the CPU and PSU) last year while trying to encode Star Trek SNW episodes to stream over Dropbox.
Thanks. It's always difficult when losing trusted companion. Seriously, I trusted my computer more than my mom.
Sorry for your own loss.
Definitely on the shorter side of how long they're supposed to last, but sometimes you just get unlucky.
Of course, most people who care are going to upgrade mobo much sooner than that, so failures due to old age are less visible
I never overclocked my parts, not seriously. I set a factory determined performance profile from the manufacturer and never had issues with stability.
All of my parts are consumer grade, so I should expect it to break within 10 years.
I really hope the next big shakeup in the PC space changes up how components work with each other via motherboard.
As much as people say that PCs are great because they're upgradable, unless you're doing annual minor upgrades they're really not. If you use the same machine for 5+ years, your mobo is guaranteed out of date and upgrading anything besides storage is basically a full rebuild.
Me when I bought a Ryzen CPU and I was too dumb to realize I needed a new mobo cause of socket
Even if you upgrade Intel to Intel or AMD to AMD you often need a new mobo because sockets change. I upgraded this year and couldn't even use my old ram because the new CPU architecture doesn't support it.
Sockets appear to have a slightly longer life where it used to be like every 15-20 months you would need a new mobo, the sockets are lasting a tad longer since the upgrade cycles have gotten longer. Memory standards last quite a bit so it’s important to align standards. Ultimately every choice has downsides
I hate how prevalent the upgrade advice is when all it comes down to is having the ability to upgrade your cpu 3 generations or not.
ah sad. motherboards can be very cheap though https://www.ebay.com/itm/285381640481 https://www.ebay.com/itm/325567055143
Yeah but this is the perfect excuse to build an all new "Team Red" gaming PC. My Skylake + GTX 1060 6gb combo was getting long in the tooth.
Edit: Those eBay mobos are nice and cheap but the wrong size. When I built my PC, lan parties were still a thing, so I built small. Mini itx.
I was thinking of that for a while now. But I might need a new Nas case.
i5 6600K
GTX 1060 6GB
Wow we really had the exact same PC huh
Mini itx
Awesome form factor but holy shit the prices of those motherboards
Built my nas with one and I almost regretted it due to that
It's probably hard to get such an old board. 2016 is ancient history in tech terms.
Right it’s probably not worth it. I was trying to find compatible DDR3 RAM for an old system but it was all very expensive and used or random unbranded ali express shit
I would have to go to ebay to get a Skylake mobo.
Might be cheaper but as things age, it's sometimes better to upgrade to a more current setup.
I had the exact same thing happen to me 2 months ago, a part from all compatible mbs being "compact" now (room for max 2 blocks of ram) I can recommend replacing it.. unless you got the bank for a new machine, which would have been my ideal plan..
Edit: had a i6, ddr3 and a gtx970 so I figure it's around the same age
Mine was a bit newer - Skylake.
But like you I had a compact motherboard and that's what failed. I'm getting lucky this month so I have some bank to do a total upgrade but I'm getting my ideal-ish system out of it. All AMD but it'll be AM4 based with a RX 6700 XT in it. I think if they still have them, a 5800X3D chip.
That’s my setup right now. Got the gfx card a couple of years ago but gonna upgrade later this year
If you can't boot, what is the process for narrowing down that your motherboard is the issue? Just replace every single other part and test?
I'm asking because I had a ten-year-old computer die recently and I just bought an entirely new machine because I needed one quickly and didn't have spare parts to test. Like I was suspecting the power supply was keeping it from booting up, but I didn't want to buy a new power supply because if that's not it then now I'm doing a computer-building project with wait times after every part I buy.
I have no idea if it is good or not. Since it's the motherboard, I don't have another to test my gpu, ram, or cpu. Only thing I know that works for sure is my ssd as I have an USB enclosure from work.
