I’m perfectly fine with my 6-year old PC (built with Q6600, top cpu at the time). And it copes with most of my work and runs most games on medium-high quality

I’m perfectly fine with my 6-year old PC (built with Q6600, top cpu at the time). And it copes with most of my work and runs most games on medium-high quality settings. Though I have upgraded GPU a couple of times, it didn’t require a windows reinstall or a new license. Edit: in an average office I can usually see 5-10-years old PCs, a lot of them running WindowsXP, not because W7 or W8 is crap, but because these machines do their job and no one bothers to upgrade/update them while they are still in working state.