I have loved my 1366 system for years it is still a beast and gets the job done. I made a bet with a now dead friend that I could build a system that would last 10 years and still run most programs. He said It couldn't be done. I insisted it could so I built this beast or it used to be a beast. However it was able to for fill the requirements of being able to run most programs no problem for 8 years with little or no load times. Until the cmos chip failed 3 weeks ago. System build was completed around 11/21/2009 It would still run every thing I through at it if it posted lol. So what do you think 10 year capable or not? Bear in mind I didn't account for upgrades. I think it is entirely capable if I had spent some money after the initial build but I didn't. So what are your thoughts? could it make it 10 years and be relevant and usable?
 
Specs:
1000 watt power supply
2 X gtx570 EVGA SLI
X58 4X Classified
6x 7500rpm  500 gig Western Digital caviar black drives in raid zero
128 gig ssd for OS
Intell 4 core 3.05 over clocked to 4.0 1366 chipset
16 gigs of ram at 2000mhz
EVGA 9800GTx dedicated to physx
1X blue ray Drive
Liquid cooled mother board
liquid cooled CPU
1000 watt heat dissipating radiator
Enheim beast pump (lol can't remember how many gallons per hour) It was way over kill
 

 
 

 

 

You asked:  could it make it 10 years and be relevant and usable?  Sure
 
I have a X58, i7-950 clocked at 4.2 and SSD, it may not play the latest games at ultra settings; but, for everything else it is still fast
 
Just put an EVGA 1080 FE in it a couple of weeks ago ---> much more Power & less energy consumed
 
BIOS chips can be replaced, comes down to cost.  As mentioned above if it is a socket type - plug & play on

I'm sure it can! Games haven't been getting more and more demanding like they used to! It's all about resolution at the moment. You won't be running anything at 4k but 1080p should be fine. I think my old X58 was my favorite of all my builds.

Lee couldn't tell you the difference between a north bridge and south bridge processor. He couldn't rap his head around the fact that the advent of the I7 processor would change the market forever. I said with the advent of the 1366 chip-set I could build a computer that was relevant in ten years and could run most games 10 years later in 1920x1080 res. He said that was impossible those were the terms of the bet. So I built a system that I believed 10 years later could do that. And I literally spent thousands of dollars to do it. The simple basis of the bet was that the I7 would be the new foundation of performance computing. And so taking advantage of the current amd intel war the beast processor chipset is a good bet. Hence the board is capable of takeing a 3.46 6 core over clocked to 4.0 with a 2000 mhz memory frequency. I just hav't done any of that. The stock build is what I have. Now look at the board and the max specs and rethink every thing you though you knew about computers. Since when dose a 8 year old system technically look like a brand new one? Yes there are through put differences, but good lord might it be that they realized they made to much power in the old chip sets and scaled it back? I don't know but when a 8 year old system sounds like a brand new one you need to ask questions. Heaven help you if you go into server boards, then you are talking 2 or 4 processors with up to 512 gigs of ram. Including Pcie slots. That equates to up to 96 gigs of processing power with a memory bank of 512 gigs as a private citizen. This is 8 years ago try and find that now and then ask your self is the computer hardware industry really progressing?