l/c: What's the oldest component in your main desktop?

[tom10167]

Looking over my system today I was thinking about how long I've had some of this stuff. Most of it I consider to be fairly recent. In the real world an i7 isn't what I'd consider to be a "dated system".

However, I got the Belkin N52TE the month it came out, which was January 2008, six years ago!

Almost everything else is from around 2009. 4890, x25m, i7, a bunch of 1.5TB drives, sounds about right.

Anyone got a 780ti and is still using a 120GB HDD?

 

[larrymoencurly]

From oldest to newest:

1. IBM 101-key, the kind with the rectangular IBM name plate (as opposed to the wimpy oval shaped one) and a black cord with big AT connector. Late 1980s?

2. CRT monitor for the computer in the garage.

3. Delta PSUs from 1999 (all original parts, except the 4-pin ATX12V connectors I had to add).

4. APC 300VA backup, all metal with only 2 outlets in back. The original battery lasted almost 10
years.

 

[Badbonji]

Most of my current desktop is fairly new, except for my WD raptor which is still going from 2006-7 (use it as a system drive for Ubuntu only). Other than that only the case has some age to it.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

My 1.5TB HDD from ~2009.
But I've also been upgrading recently.

Before the upgrades in the last month or so it would have been my NZXT M59, which the server is in now.

 

[EarthDog]

WD Caviar Black 640GB flavor... circa 2010 IIRC.

 

[Xeon_KI]

in would be WD Black 1tb
attached would be Logitech G5

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Acer ps/2 keyboard sometime in the '90's I believe.

I do have a special edition Logitech "Clear Case" serial mouse from October '86
(I soldered a green LED in it, looks so cool during the night)
But alas, only works in Windows 3.1

 

[cullam3n]

Not in my desktop per se, but my speakers are Z-5300s which are at least a decade old.

 

[Mr.Scott]

The case. Still using a Chieftec Dragon on my daily driver.

 

[freakdiablo]

The motherboard/CPU. Got them in August, 2011. I also have a 2TB Samsung as a back up drive that I got in October 2011, pre-owned, so it could be "older". (If anyone remembers that newegg thread that popped up about the $32 2TB drives, it's one of those.)

 

[freeagent]

I have a true, auzentech prelude, first gen 1tb black, and my panaflos in my rig currently then my rig itself wich is kind of old.. My CPU is an es so

 

[Janus67]

Umm, I guess my lite-on DVD burner from a couple years ago.

 

[BugFreak]

My oldest part is the cpu/mb shown in my sig, everything else has been upgraded at least once. I just can't justify to myself upgrading at this point.

 

[tom10167]

Wow I thought people would be coming out of the woodwork with '07 stuff for sure!

It seems a lot of us are still on hardware from circa '09. CPU progress, or maybe the demand for it, has really slown down since then. I used to upgrade fairly regularly but I see no reason to upgrade my chip anytime soon. Now the 4890...

 

[wingman99]

Creative sound blaster audigy 2 zs from 2004.

I win..

 

[eobard]

Coolermaster 500w PSU. Roughly 6 years old if I remember correctly. Replaced the fan ~2 years ago but otherwise a rock solid performer.

 

[Adragontattoo]

The case itself. Yeong Yang 0221 bought from the classies here in 2006.

wait IN the desktop? uhh

 

[tom10167]

Nah that's fine for the spirit of the thread, this isn't an official census, I just didn't want people saying how they've got some 40GB drive in their garage somewhere.

 

[pcgamer4life]

Up until recently my oldest component still in service was my Thermaltake Xaser case, circa 2003. I moved up to my CX500 a few months ago. Past that, it's a 36gb that I bought used in 2007, using it as a boot drive for my server. Past that it's a 1TB WD Green from 2008.

 

[Cyrix_2k]

Everything in the case is the same age... late 2011? Keyboard is late 2011, mouse is new off of RMA, and monitors are new. The oldest parts I have are sound related... receiver from the 80s, paradigm atom v1s, and ath-a900s I've had for a while.