Weekend Open Forum: What's the oldest part in your PC?

I think our oldest component is the Power supply, being used for our PC since 2005

My speakers, Logitech Z5300 5.1 paid $200 for them about 7 years ago and still kicking like new. The rest is 2012 parts. i7@4.5, 16gb ddr3, GTX 680 4GB, 30" 2560 x 1600 IPS display.

My case and Powerbox from 2003.

Replaced my PSU in 2008 but it blew in 6 month so went back to my old trusty and stayed ever since.

Hitachi 7200rpm hdd from 2009, ati mobility radeon 5730

Well I have one relatively old unit, bought in 2000/2001 was on vista OS,

The core in that is a 1.8 celeron =) im running 4gb of ddr2 corsair ram on it with an 8500gts nvidia card, believe it or not, that above computer runs WarZ. slow loading, but smooth once in

In my desktop, a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS because it still kicks on board arse!

Oldest part I have? Pentium MMX 233MHz.

If it was about oldest part outside PC then I have an 486 DX100 eating dust somewhere.

Well I've built my computer november of 2010 with i7 960 that I got from Intel retail edge, so I've bought everything new then, but I do have several computer parts at home, like a Pentium 2 processor, 56k modem, 15" CRT monitor, several memory ram sticks etc

My current built

I7 960 soon to be replaced by i7 3770k (thanks Intel )
Asus P6X58-E
12GB RAM G. Skill
Primary SSD Samsung 830 256GB
intel SSD 120GB
1TB WD
2TB Seagate
Omega Claro Plus (sound card)
EVGA GTX 570
Avermedia game capture hd
hauppauge 2250
750W Thermaltake PSU
all in an awesome case HAF 932

Soundblaster Live 5.1 Platinum has been following all my rigs for the past decade with kX drivers. Sadly might be the last mobo it comes in contact (no PCI in my next rig).

The oldest part of my PC is the speakers. Everything else is within two years old.

I have items that I'm keeping for sentimental reasons. lol

• Intel 80286 - 12Mhz
• Make it 486 (The first and only images I found of the Make-It 486)

I upgrade once every couple of years so everything is pretty new. I guess my power supply is the oldest - it's been through a couple of upgrades. It's a Thermaltake 850 watt modular one. Runs like a champ!

It's funny that this article should come up this weekend. A couple of days ago I installed an old hdd to see if I could access it with a Dos virtual box. It was the first hdd I ever bought. 85.3mb manufactured in 91. And for those who did a double take mb is correct. After too many hours with Google searches I was finally able to read from the drive. Who else remembers Ascii art.... lol.

Probably, my case, the Cooler Master Elite 341.

The user.....

I have a working AMD 486 DX 40 MHz with 8 MB RAM and 210 MB hard disk running Windows 95

My floppy drive cable its over 15 yrs old, still have some stuff on floppies people do..

Its the DVD burner from Samsung. Don't remember the full model name ! It was installed around 3 years ago and it doesn't work anymore, but I am too lazy to replace it cuz I don't use DVDs any more !

Yamaha CRW-F1 CDR. It's used to burn audio cd's only, because the audio quality of the cd's it writes is extremely good and it writes cd's in such high quality and low speed that simply no stand alone cd player, no matter how old, will be able to read it.

For instance I own Philips CD100, I think one of the first cd players. You can burn an audio cd on any modern dvd-rw blue ray writer and the chances are very high these old players won't read them.

Probaly the cpu and 1 of the hdd's

cpu = x4 965

hdd = seagate 300 gb

My Fatal1ty XFi Soundcard is a few years old. I also have a 300 Gig Maxtor Drive with old pics and game saves.