My desktop is mostly from 2011. The GPU is only about 4 years old, but the case and many of the fans are at least 15. The newest drives are new SSDs. I ripped my whole CD collection with the current optical drive (DVD?) and a now-defunct one in 2001 or so (different case). The build started out as an Athlon XP, and then was a 64 bit AMD for a while.
These days, it's fine for 4K linux gaming. CPU performance really stalled out over the years. The original motherboard, ram, cpu, etc build was about $1000.
Many other computers and laptops have come and gone, but it's still my main home machine.
> CPU performance really stalled out over the years.
It can be fun to look through https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html. In single-threaded performance, the cheapest retail processor I could find at a glance just now (the Intel Pentium Gold G6405) is about 1.4× as fast as the fastest processor of a decade ago, the i7-3960X. The i3-12100 is about 2× the i7-3960X. The i9-12900KS is about 2.4×. (And all this disregards memory performance improvements which I believe will make typical loads much fasterer still.) Then multithreaded performance, well, there you’re looking at more like 5× increases on high-end SKUs of both eras.
(As for the Athlon XP 3000+, well, the i9-12900KS is around 10× single/170× multi on it.)
Simple simplified simplistic summary: a similar grade of processor now is probably at least 2–4× as fast as the one of a decade ago for practical tasks, even ignoring other related improvements.
These days, it's fine for 4K linux gaming. CPU performance really stalled out over the years. The original motherboard, ram, cpu, etc build was about $1000.
Many other computers and laptops have come and gone, but it's still my main home machine.