11 year old rig died, help me with a replacement

Lots of prebuilt systems use common off the shelf parts.

If your system is 11 years old. I would suggest you look for something newer.

fastest is trying another PSU with the dead rig. Since you jsut said it's dead it's hard to diagnose anything so generic.

You're gonna have a rough time finding a decent gaming system under 1k simply because of the GPU shortage. Then again, if you're used to an 11-year old computer then anything will be a massive upgrade.

https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/desktop ... se-desktop

How about this?

What's the configuration of the "Dead" rig? If its anything lower than a 2nd Gen i7 then it's probably a good excuse to get a new rig. With regards to fixing the old rig, it's not too bad if its a dead power supply. Since you'll need one for a potential new computer anyways, get a new power supply and try it in the old rig, if it fixes it, yay!.. If not, then you have your new rig's power supply . As others have mentioned, its terrible time to build right now everything is expensive especially the video card.

You best chance with a prebuilt that doesn't have proprietary parts is to NOT go with a big name brand like Dell/HP/Acer and go with local store like Memory express and Canada computers. Thats basically have them build it for you but you choose your own parts.

The next Diablo coming out is a Diablo 2 remastered, don't think itll be that demanding in hardware. Diablo 4 probably won't come for a few more years anyways.

Theres no telling, but I really don't think prices will ever drop.

An 11 year old rig is not even Sandy Bridge. A Raspberry Pi4 would whoop it.

If the PSU replacement doesn't bring it back, I'd check out some of the off-lease business refurb units or keep an eye out on Facebook marketplace/kijiji/etc

6060842 wrote: ↑ I think you might be up for some sort of award for keeping a computer for that long.

My HP DV6500 series laptop from 2007 is still ticking on all-original parts (except a RAM upgrade and a new AC adapter), Core 2 1.5Ghz, 4GB DDR2, and 320GB HDD.

I'd still be using my Core 2 Q9550 system as my main rig had the motherboard not died

I have a bunch of rigs ready to go, motherboard and CPU builds that are somewhat recent that I can sell you to get you started. They should be enough to play any modern games with a decent videocard you'll have to find.

If you are interested you could PM me and I could send you some details. I think you can reuse your existing hardware, and potentially supply you with a new powersupply.