Funny enough, instead of doing that every year, my policy has been "replace the machine if it breaks" and in general, I've gotten a good five-year cycle out of

Funny enough, instead of doing that every year, my policy has been "replace the machine if it breaks" and in general, I've gotten a good five-year cycle out of all my PCs without having to do disassemble-maintenance with an air can and a static strip. This has been good enough because I do enough high-graphics-demand gaming that five years is about the cycle on which some new-shiny has come out that renders my machine too old to play modern games. Maybe I'm just lucky.