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Originally Posted by Skybird
Counting by the above, one could say you have had not one but several desktops.   |
But I have not bought new optical drives, keyboards, mice, monitors, video cards, cases, power supplies......all the stuff you buy over when you buy a new machine. You don't really need it. Those still all work in your old machine. And it takes a lot of money to buy stuff you don't require.
I spent all my money on the core components that provide performance: motherboard, CPU, RAM. That's the difference between buying a new machine and refreshing an existing one.
You have 100% control over every single component. You only have to buy those few components you wish to upgrade. You don't have to junk the case and all those components which are still functioning perfectly well.