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Life span of a CPU

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Your Pentium will probably get a good life. I have one Willamette based Pentium 4 machine thats over 10 years old, and one Prescott based thats turning 10 in 2014. More modern CPUs have the possibility of 40 years. And I know the CPU of my Texas Instruments 99/4A home computer is about 30 years old.

saurabh2810 said:
Thank you!!
I feel its pretty slow with the latest applications I use with it!!

If you could, switch to Linux. That OS runs like BUTTER on older CPUs.
I run all the older machines on Linux - they run better because Linux, unlike Windows, has REALLY good resource management.

My SNES still works, as does my NES. I know plenty of people with Amigas and C64s. Hell, my local computer shop has a Speccy in the window! (Don't think it's for sale sadly, but still need to ask!)

A well looked after computer will often last to obsoletion rather than death.
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