Longest serving component in your current main machine?

Tunney · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:24

After 8 years of loyal service my DVD drive has finally bite the dust. It originally came inside a Dell P3-500Mhz PC that cost around £1400 at the time.

Since then it's been in a AMD XP-2200+, AMD A64-3500+ and my current AMD X2-4400+ machine. I never bothered replacing it because it has always worked fine.

R.I.P. little fella.

So what's the longest serving component in your current main machine?

Raikiri · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:26

My 7800gt.

Will_3rd · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:27

Either my Sony DVD Rom Drive or 7800GT both almost two years old now

joshlane · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:28

my belkin network card benn in like 3 builds now

daven1986 · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:28

i have a maxtor ide harddrive which is about 5 years old i guess.

james.miller · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:28

erm. lol. one of my hard drives is about 8 months old lol. i know my old celeron-t is still working. as are my xp1700+ and nf7-s.

Maccy · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:30

My 80gb IDE - it cost £200 a long time ago!

PGdude · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:37

Celeron 1.8GHz, 80GB Maxtor IDE HDD and my case.

I don't really use the floppy so it doesn't count, 5 years each from the same machine.

Yeah I said Celeron 1.8GHz.

jaykay · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:39

I have a samsung 8gb which i use to backup a few things but thats never in use. Its probally my 80gb Maxtor which is around 3-4years old.

Fothsn · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:40

Got to be my Segate 200Gb Sata HDD its called the clicking man

need to purchase a more silent HDD I think.

Had it about 2Yrs iirc.

Energize · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:41

Maxtor 80gb hdd.

MumboJumbo · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:45

Your dooming your things. Ever heard of fate o my. You should all be touching wood! lol.

ALl my parts but hard drive and dvd drive in this pc have lasted 3 years i believe.

Spitfir3 · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:46

These were up until a few days ago:

250W PSU
Samsung CD-RW/DVD

they served me well

MumboJumbo · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:49

Crap i forgot to touch wood my self

... Meh i gona be replacing in a month anyway

*Touches wood*

InvaderGIR · 3 Oct 2007 at 17:50

Everything bar my graphics card.

I built my PC a year ago, and 6 months ago the graphics card died so everything bar that.

Oh and I replaced my IDE DVDRW with a SATA one (IDE went to the server)...so that's new too.

InvG

Grandmaster Fap! · 3 Oct 2007 at 18:00

Floppy drive, got it when i built my first pc in 96 i believe.

Fothsn · 3 Oct 2007 at 18:01

Castor said:
Floppy drive, got it when i built my first pc in 96 i believe.

People still have thoes :eek:

time to get a USB one methinks

Dougsnake · 3 Oct 2007 at 18:03

my liteon cdr-rw/dvd combo drive about 4 years now

Chris19 · 3 Oct 2007 at 18:04

fothsn said:
People still have thoes time to get a USB one methinks

Some people need them for installing raid drivers, but yeah its about time mobo manufactures moved on to shipping with cd's.

As for me my whole system is coming up to 2 years old bar the only thing being replaced was a 7800GTX that went to a 7950GT then a 8800GTS

Trixxy · 3 Oct 2007 at 18:12

The oldest bits in my pc are my 36GB Raptors (the first gen, 8MB Cache ones).

Had them raided as my OS drive since summer 2003. I've upgraded the rest of the components about 5 times since then.