What is the oldest part of your PC?

I have built yet another pc with all the old parts that I had stored over the years which are.

Corsair TX750W psu
Asrock G31-M-S M/B
Intel socket 775 Q6850 at stock with a Gigabyte cpu cooler
EVGA GTX 480 GPU
3 gig of ram
1x 120g SSD & 1x 160g SATA drives
O/S Win XP-Pro ser3
Zalman Z3 Plus case

I prefer to use the old build most days, as my newer pc runs on Win 10 and I am just not that keen on win 10.:( I guess that I just prefered to use xp for some strange reason;)
 
Broady21.pb said:
I prefer to use the old build most days, as my newer pc runs on Win 10 and I am just not that keen on win 10.:( I guess that I just prefered to use xp for some strange reason;)
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10 always feels so flat like it has no soul. It is on the laptop and fluid. Don't know why I still prefer 7 because of Aero... At least it feels it has character?...
 
Sidewinder stick and wheel, both ancient but still going strong.

Stick is showing wear, if I leave FSX whilst flying without autopilot it'll start to roll and eventually fall out of the sky, never used to do it, quite a bit of play in the stick now alas.
 
For me its my old Samsung 24" monitor and my Boogie Bug pad that were bought at the same time, (I think 2011 but not 100% sure) everything else has been renewed. I think i'm currently on keyboard number 4 or 5. My mouse would have been before Christmas (an old Logitech MX1000).
 
My monitor is the oldest part. Brought back in Feb 2015 AFAIK. Initially planned to hook it up to my laptop which came with a GTX660M thinking it would be fine. Needless to say it was not and that's when I got in to custom building.
 
My 560ti is 2nd hand and I have no idea when it was new. Everything else is from Dec15-now.

edit: Just fitted a "new" 16GB kit of ram but CPU-Z says it was made in 2012. :p
 
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In my main day to day rig it's the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic. It's getting on a bit now, probably 10 years old give or take.

Also got an AMD 1200 Thunderbird coupled with an Abit KT7A motherboard at arms length.

The old Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad, wheel and joystick are at the back of me . Damn shame I can't use them on current systems. :(
 
billyboyd said:
In my main day to day rig it's the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic. It's getting on a bit now, probably 10 years old give or take.
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Shame their drivers were always buggy.

Also got an AMD 1200 Thunderbird coupled with an Abit KT7A motherboard at arms length.
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Mmmm, memories. ABIT KT7A 13 May 2001. VIA though. :/ I still have a working 1400 Thunderbird boxed up.
 
Use my old gaming monitor at work. Originally bought it when I dropped my 21" Iiyama CRT down the stairs in a house move :(

Was part of the upgrade to play Oblivion IIRC, so getting on 10 years. Thinking of it makes me want to play it again!
 
I have an 'old' 1TB 'steam drive' that sits in my tower. I suppose if I could be bothered I could transfer it all onto my other much larger drive, but it always seems easier just to screw it in to a drive bay, add a SATA cable and a power supply to it.
 
My case, Chieftec Full tower, bought it about 2001-2002 along with some of the tubing a thermochill rad and fittings for the water cooling. The oldest component is probably my 840 pro.
 
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