Quote - My point is that at some point your hardware will fail!  This is assured.  When your motherboard/cpu/graphics/memory goes you are going to be hard-pressed to find the old hardware to replace it.  Might not be for some time - but the longer you hold out, the less likely.  Graphics is going PCI-E, harddrives are going SATA, memory is going SDDR (or whatnot), DVD is going DL or Blu-Ray, monitors are going DVI.  Within five or so years, you'll have to scavenge and dumpster-dive to get compliant hardware for your ancient computer.  Been there.

 

The Airforce has had to do this to replace radiation-hardened 386 chips.