What's the oldest hardware you have that you are still using?

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Installing Windows 8.1 w update on a Dell Vostro 1510, this thing is like a million years old, and it's still working fine. Added an SSD about a year ago and it does everything fine.

The battery is dead, so it has to be plugged in to work, but apart from that, the screen, keyboard etc still work perfect. Got to be the best value hardware I ever bought.

What hardware are you guys still using from the stone age?
 
In the system in sig, the oldest part is probably the psu. Bought it on the members market about 5 years ago. Monitors on both systems are fairly old. Benq fp241w in sig is about 5 years old, 7 year old viewsonic vx2025 in the second machine. Its an x58 based system and the primary hdd in it is about 8 years old, (western digital caviar 250gb). Ive had more drives die in that time that were used on my various primary systems.
 
I retired my Athlon XP rig (bought 2002) at the end of last year. But I still use it occasionally for remoting in to work, as I haven't set it up on the new PC yet.

So 12 years old
 
setter said:
In the system in sig, the oldest part is probably the psu. Bought it on the members market about 5 years ago. Monitors on both systems are fairly old. Benq fp241w in sig is about 5 years old, 7 year old viewsonic vx2025 in the second machine. Its an x58 based system and the primary hdd in it is about 8 years old, (western digital caviar 250gb). Ive had more drives die in that time that were used on my various primary systems.
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You've done really well on the monitors, that much use and they pretty much pay for themselves. Hoping my imported Shimian keeps on going like that. Had a couple HDD drives die on me over the years, everything else just seems to keep on working.

cheesyboy said:
I retired my Athlon XP rig (bought 2002) at the end of last year. But I still use it occasionally for remoting in to work, as I haven't set it up on the new PC yet.

So 12 years old
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Think you got me beat there, 12 years that is crazy. Would never of expected this stuff to last so long. Think this laptop is around 7 years old. Got W8.1 up and running now, it boots in seconds :p. Got a core 2 duo in it and like 4GB DDR2. Amazing that it's still this quick. I offered to replace it for my gal but she says she is happy to use it until it dies, bless her. Doesn't have the compulsion I have to buy the latest stuff :-D. My better half..
 
The old viewsonic is a bit scratched here and there, (got dropped while decorating), but aside from that its going great. Pretty much been in use every day for at least 12 hours. The benq is still like new, though i fancy an upgrade to a 27" soon.
 
setter said:
The old viewsonic is a bit scratched here and there, (got dropped while decorating), but aside from that its going great. Pretty much been in use every day for at least 12 hours. The benq is still like new, though i fancy an upgrade to a 27" soon.
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27" 1440P is really nice tbh. Sounds like you have waited long enough for an upgrade :D

Hope my screen can last as long as yours :p I did think about selling a lil while ago, and going 4K now but the 4K screens are so expensive and need at least 2 GPU's to push that many pixels. I'm done with dual GPU's so hoping I can use this shimmy until it dies, even 2-3 years would be enough, 4K will be decent price by then and much better GPU's around.

Mark This Day said:
I still have a old rig with sli gtx 8800
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They were some awesome cards, had one of them back in the day.
 
Hardware wise, probably my mouse which is an original microsoft WMO usb from around 2000. I've also got my old raptor 74GB from 2004 and a samsung 200GB from 2005 both still being used. My iiyama PLH540S secondary monitor is also from 2004 as is my enermax fan controller.

System wise, my toshiba P100 laptop (core duo T2300) and an HP/compaq nc6400 (core 2 duo T7200) both are 8 years old. The toshiba is sporting an M4 ssd and windows 7 whilst the hp is still running it's original 60GB hard disk and ubuntu 14.
 
Hmm lets see

A set of logitech 5.1 surround speakers from around 10 years ago that are still used daily.

A Microsoft Intellimouse from around 99 or 2000 that took 5 years of UT and other gaming and still works.

2 x Microsoft Ergonomic keyboards from 99 or 2000 that are used daily.

A system with an Athlon 3800+ cpu, 2 x 512mb ddr, 2 x 80gb western digital drives, plextor dvdrw, pioneer slot loading dvd, a 9800 non pro vga card that gets used on occasion.

An old antec 460w psu from 2000 or so that I use for testing at work - its never missed a beat in all the time I have had it.

I do have an old Intel Pentium 2 300 system at work somewhere from 97 ish with maybe 32mb ram, 4.3gb hard disk etc. It has NT4 installed on it and was at one time a basic file server and sometimes ran a UT server for our LAN. Not used anymore but it does still work.
 
I had to refresh a laptop that was my sisters. She got it when she went to uni.

So thats 11 years old, it is an ibm thinkpad and still works nicely :)
 
Cherry mechanical keyboard (PS2 Only) think I got it originally in 1997.

Fantastic action and the keytops seem to be very wear resistant, Gets a thorough stop down clean every now and then and it looks like it should carry on forever.
 
A laptop running Windows 95, an IBM about 4 inches thick. Barely use it though. I did regularly use an ancient system playing BF1942, which was circa 1999 I think.
 
My oldest machine stil in use is my s939 opteron180 based htpc box. Runs well enough and boots really quickly with win8.0 + ssd and xmbc. (Win8.1 64bit not supported on this cpu)

My main monitor is a 6-7 year old benq fp241w which is coming to the end of its life. It suffers from really bad image retention and ghosting issues now and in bad need of replacement. I want to wait until there are some monitors with active sync to choose from.
 
Not mine any more, but my dad still uses an old gaming pc of mine from roughly 2001 for work: AMD Athlon 1800+, 2 GB DDR (cant remember the brand), Geforce 3 Ti 200 128mb (it was one of the first 128mb cards)

I still use a 6 year old i7 920 in my main PC as well as an original Logitech G15 from the same time.
 
Oldest bit of hardware in every day use is a Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic bought the day of launch. I've got an old Dell with a Celeron 400 kicking around that is still used sometimes for compatibility testing and a 14" LCD from the early days of TFTs that is useful for diagnosing hardware sometimes rather than lug a larger panel around.
 
Oldest part in my main PC is my i5 2500K.

Oldest system I use every day is my server/secondary PC which has a pair of Xeon E5430's, 8GB of ECC DDR2 and a GTX260.

I occasionally use my old/first gaming PC which is:

Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8 @ 3.2GHz w' Coolermaster Aquagate watercooling
AOpen AX4PER-GN (478)
2GB (2x 1GB) Zeppelin DDR400
GeForce 6600GT (AGP)
EZ Cool 400W PSU
2x WD2000 200GB HDD (IDE)

It is running Windows 7 x86, which is the newest version of Windows that will work with the CPU. :p

:)
 
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Opteron 144-based system here.
Used to run at 2.8gig when it was using it as my main rig a few years ago. Can only manage 2.6gig now but it's still pretty much in daily use as a media PC. Handles XBMC, wirelessly streaming HD movies without a problem.

Probably the best chip I ever bought. 9 years old and still going strong :)
 
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