The oldest CPU you have in regular use?

[randal]

Probably the Turion II N54L Neo in the media PC Microserver, circa 2010. Everything else is Sandy or Haswell-E in our house.

 

[pastymuncher]

My 4670k is the only cpu I have in a desktop now. Until a few months ago I was running a Socket 754 system with a Athlon 64 3400+ in it for my weather station backups but replaced that with a Dell D630 laptop off the bay for £35. I upgraded the cpu in that From a T7100 (1.8Ghz) to a T7700 (2.4Ghz) for £6 so I guess that's the oldest cpu I have still running.

 

[Scougar]

Core2duo wolfdale something... sees occasional use as in a nice compact system.

 

[LooneyR]

Until upgrading last month I used a QX6700 in my main gaming rig.
Its now still in use as a media box with the OC turned back down...
(I believe it was the first Intel consumer grade quad core ~ from late 2006)

 

[Bossman]

Voodoo II

Ha Ha, excellent!

Still got an AMD Opteron Skt 939 in use. 10 years old last month.

 

[Smit]

One of the laptops in the house is running an Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (early 2009)

 

[DragonQ]

Funnily enough the oldest CPU I'm using is also the most powerful: the Xeon X5650 in my signature, circa 2009. I have a Core i5-4440 in my TV server but the rest are all Celerons or mobile chips.

 

[David Bisset]

i5 750 from sig, think it was early 2010, not quite at first release.

At the moment it is a i5 760 with a GTX 580. I've been tempted to build a 32 bit XP machine for old games, either top end single core/ AGP stuff or low end dual core / PCIE.

Should be able to run most from within VMs, it's even older stuff that really goes wrong

 

[coutinho]

athlon 64 3000 laptop still going lol.

 

[easyrider]

I'm rocking a i7 920 in my studio for music production ...

 

[MadMouse101]

X58 I7 950

 

[OspreyO]

Celeron M 370 1.6Ghz in a laptop.

 

[Evian]

i5 750, 2009.

 

[jumeeno]

Athlon II X2 245 circa 2009.

Does me proud in an OpenELEC HTPC box!

 

[Kmodo]

The AMD 955 had it something like 5/6 years

 

[Confused Stu]

In regular use, I've got a Dell Latitude D420 rocking a Core Duo U2500 (released in 2006) and my youngest has a D620 running a T2500 of a similar vintage. The laptops are very slow (even with SSDs in) but fine for guests web browsing and are built so solidly they just refuse to die!

 

[linktoinsanity]

That'll be hard to beat (1999).

Elonex P233MMX laptop with 48MB RAM and Windows 98SE, used for old games...

Surely that wins?

 

[joeyjojo]

Elonex P233MMX laptop with 48MB RAM and Windows 98SE, used for old games...

Surely that wins?

1997 so yes it does!

P.S. I love looking these old chips up: Vcore=3.3 V, TDP=17 W, 4.5 million transistors, 350 nm process... Incredible, a 4790K has over 300 times the number of transistors.

 

[P.B]

The oldest one I have is e5200 that is used but the oldest machine in the house is an old p4

 

[Retron]

Elonex P233MMX laptop with 48MB RAM and Windows 98SE, used for old games...
Surely that wins?

I think that takes the prize for a regularly-used machine!

I do have a couple of older machines in the back bedroom, but they've not been used regularly for a while:

* An HP Vectra P133 with 96MB RAM and Windows 2000, ran my weather station until two years ago. (It still works, but is no longer in regular use)
* An IBM PS/2 model 56, with a 486SLC3/75 CPU (essentially a glorified 386) and 8MB RAM, running Windows 95. I used that as a third PC when friends came round back in the day - it just about worked for running Doom! It's in fully working order, but only gets booted once or twice a year just to see if it still works.

There is one bit of that PS/2 still in regular use, though - the Model M keyboard. I'm using it right now, as happily it plugs right into my modern motherboard's PS/2 port.

Here's a peek at the PS/2 - with a copy of this month's PC Pro, just to show I didn't just grab a picture from elsewhere!