What is your longest lasting Pc part?

It was my floppy drive that I originally purchased in my desktop case type system (386 SX25) that I bought in 1990, IIRC.
The only change that I made to it was to remove the bezel to spray it silver and then pop it back into my latest case.

I have only recently removed it because I happened to find the cover plate for my case when I was tidying up, I didn't want to see a gaping hole without the plate that is why the drive survived well past its sell by date.
 
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For me its been my Akasa eclipse case and my tagan 480w psu. Both have been in daily use for about 4 years now. The tagan is happily powering my 2500k at 4.2ghz too.

Going to replace the case soon but these two have been fantastic purchases.

My c2d which was replaced recently was also a long termer. I imagine many are the same with c2d and c2q chips as they have been holding up great for years.


So what are your loyal components?
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I still have a C2Q in my rig and itself is my longest serving bit of kit. RAM, Case, PSU, GPU, MOBO all been upgraded but my 9550 quad is still the original

No need to upgrade just yet imo. It'll still let me game at high settings with my current GPU so any real life difference is minimal.
 
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I have a P3 800mhz machine that still gets occasional use.

Got it in some time in the 90's and had to take a loan for 2 grand.
384mb of ram and an ATi Rage Fury pro 32mb. It has been upgraded to windows 2000 though.

It has just enough power to run a network render manager or a torrent server.
 
The longest lasting part of my computer is:

ME

I even got a new chair.. The predecessor was the record holder, it lasted about 7-8 years!

I completely got rid of my old rig and went completely new!
 
Most of my old rig lasted four years. So, GA-p35-DS3P rev1, E8400 (clocked at 4ghz for most of it) and my 8800GT. I swapped out the RAM after about two years, changed PSU after about a year and added watercooling to it and put it in a TT armor. I also added a soundcard (now in my current rig).

Still works too, I took the watercooling out and put a stock cooler on it and sold it on.
 
Would have been my old 17" Illyama until my kitten knocked it off it's raised bed and it fell on my whiskey glass in front of the screen and broke both items. :( (Completely my fault for a silly mounting of a screen tbh. :P)

Now it's probably my speakers from 2005 ish I think.
 
Inside the case its my PSU which has seen me through 4 builds/major upgrades. still solid as a rock and would always buy Seasonic again.

Outside my Creative speakers which I bought at least 7 yeas ago
 
Can tel whom on here either has unreliable parts or are very young. I.e those who's oldest parts are from after 2005 or so lol.

Then other people with items from the 90's etc
 
geon106 said:
Can tel whom on here either has unreliable parts or are very young. I.e those who's oldest parts are from after 2005 or so lol.

Then other people with items from the 90's etc
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With technology moving as fast as it is why would anyone have any hardware other than perhaps a monitor, keyboard and mouse or hard drives from the 90's?
 
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With technology moving as fast as it is why would anyone have any hardware other than perhaps a monitor, keyboard and mouse or hard drives from the 90's?
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Just because its not used and old, doesn't mean people still don't hang on to their old parts.

My server cupboard is filled with SDRAM, IDE hard drives, VGA graphic cards, old keyboards and mice, some floppy drives etc all from the 90's and early 00's and all working.

Just because its outdated, still keep it
 
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