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How many years do you think this machine has left?

When I had to go through some hardware for family, I had to evaluate some PCs for an upgrade to Windows 11, an immediate upgrade to 11 (but I am considering retirement), and systems that are impending retirement. One machine on my list I am considering retiring is an older Dell—in this case, an Inspiron 3671 (i5-9400/12GB RAM/256GB SSD/1TB bulk storage HD).

I'm seriously considering retirement because the CPU is beginning to show its age lately, especially with the 9th-gen i5. Looking at some benchmarks with the 14th-gen systems out now, there's reason for me to think this is related to the aging CPU in the machine. To confirm my theory about the bad performance being a possible system age issue, I put up the machine with the site it struggled with against my EliteBook 640 G9 as a reference since it has the 1245U and 16GB of RAM (HP OEM SSD, for reference); the 1245U HP had it up right away, so I think the machines age is catching up to it these days.

How long does this machine likely have left before it's aged out and time to consider retirement? My guess is 1-2 years, but I'm also conservative, so I have time to prepare. I might be able to improve the situation with a clean install of Windows and maybe a better NVMe SSD of the 1TB flavor, so that remains a potential option to get a bit more time from it.

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@nick I think most of this will depend on what you use it for. My take on that is that for as long as I have a valid OS and the software that I use is supporting the hardware, there is no reason for me to change my computer. I don't worry to much about benchmarks since a difference of a few milliseconds are of no big relevance to me. Again, that is just for me and my use. You may have totally different needs when it comes to the hardware.

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My concern is keeping it going too long and having a failure I cannot get parts for as well as trying to get ahead of it a bit. I just looked at the benchmarks as a reference to get an idea.

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@nick yes, I get it and totally understand. Just had to retire one of computers since It would not run win11 nor would it take any of the Software updates :-) . I was still using Win 7 so I got many years out of it.

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@oldturkey03 My guess is I can get another year or so out of it conservatively with a 1TB NVMe SSD but maybe a bit longer, in reason (not to the point it's 15 years old, but 10 years max). I could probably repaste the CPU to see if that helps too, but the SSD and reinstall will probably help more.

I have no reservations about pushing anything I run to 15+ and risking it as a semi disposable PC, but there's a line with someone who doesn't get the risks.

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