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Weekend Open Forum: What's the oldest part in your PC?
Although most of us upgrade our systems regularly, it's generally uncommon to replace every single component -- even for a fresh build. Instead, parts less crucial to daily performance such as optical drives, bulk storage, cases or even power supplies are recycled over the years, serving tours through several hardware generations. Likewise with peripherals, which often remain deployed until they're busted or totally obsolete.
This week, we want to hear about the parts of your PC that have been on duty for the longest period. On my end, I think the Thermaltake Tai Chi chassis is the oldest component still in use (it's also my most regretted tech purchase), having been bought in 2005. As close second and third place picks, I recently removed a decade old 40GB Maxtor hard drive and a floppy drive from my system, though they weren't actually being used.
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I can't say for sure what the oldest part of my PC, but I can certainly tell you what the newest part is.
I walked by the machine and banged into the open tray of the DVD drive. The drive tray of course, jammed.
After which, I "coerced" it into closing, by landing a ferocious "dim mak" shot, dead center of the stuck in the open position offending part.
Since I keep spare parts for bizarre contingencies such as this, the winner for "newest part" is, "a Sony Optiarc DVD burner".
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Brand new system with all new parts since May 2012. However, monitor, keyboard, and mouse are carry overs from my Socket 939 days. Still even they were upgrades from the original build.
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Oldest part? That would be my OmniKey Ultra keyboard. It's now has an AT to PS2 to USB adapter, but it is a great keyboard.
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Trillionsin said:
My oldest is probably a first gen i7-955 (for $500 some odd dollars!!!) I think the first part I purchased for my current build. That and the motherboard; Asus P6t Deluxe V2
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I recently mixed and matched components so I could build two desktops from the single workstation I had. With this I'm not 100% sure what's the oldest, but my safest bets is one Dell 27" monitor (2707WFP) and an Enermax 600W PSU that's still way better than anything else I can buy locally.
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My whole machine is old but perfect for me (and willing to bet perfect for most anyone)... never have needed to upgrade, its does everything perfect and new isn't any faster for general use.
e8400, 4 gigs ram, 2 TB drive, gts250 etc... perfect machine for me
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My whole machine is old but perfect for me (and willing to bet perfect for most anyone)... never have needed to upgrade, its does everything perfect and new isn't any faster for general use.I'll see your E8400 and lower you a P-4 519, (3.06 Ghz single core, single thread) This in an old eMachine T-5026. It boots, surfs the web, and does a great job of running Photoshop Elements 5. Bought it for myself for Valentine's Day, 2005! The oldest part of that rig is the rig itself
e8400, 4 gigs ram, 2 TB drive, gts250 etc... perfect machine for me
The honest answer to the original question, (in the "mix and match sense), sort of depends on where I happen to be sitting. In this case, it's in front of a G31/ E6300 (Pentium dual core) home built. So the oldest part of this rig, is the raggedy a** keyboard I've borrowed from the eMachine.
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misor said:
...Second is, the Geforce 4 MX 4000...
lol, I remember I still have my nvidia mx440 agp 8x.
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Alvaro said:
My case. I'm not even sure when I bought it.
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I still have my 74GB Raptor in my Thermaltake Tsunami Dream case from my 2005 build, with a 4 year old Core 2 Duo system, a 480GTX, and an SSD and a 640GB drive for data. But nearly everything else from that original build now resides in a newer case and is my wife's main PC. I did replace the GPU and I upgraded the RAM and CPU when it was a few years old, but it still has its DFI socket 939 mobo, OCZ modular power supply, and the original DVD burner.
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The case, big enough to fit the latest crappy video-cards (they sell on meter these days you know). There is no reason to replace it, ever!
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To be honest im Still using a p4 3ghz and geforce 6200 im being so hard on myself since I pretty much have to wait for next june until I upgrade to a probable intel i5-3570k and a whole new computer componment setup tho I can say that the oldest part of the pc is the processor :S
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CFSG1 said:
My TV-tuner; a PCI pinnacle pctv 110i from 2005
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Thermal Take Xaser III case
Strong and built to last
Been through the Intel 478 thing
Now old but new 775 usb3 lol.
I am keeping this case, as it is able to hold 11 Hard Drives
Some things just don't change.
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Second is, the Geforce 4 MX 4000...
lol, I remember I still have my nvidia mx440 agp 8x.
I still have one of those too, though not actively running in anything.I'd have my audigy II ZS in one of my computers if it were not it being burnt out... My two main computers are 2 years old or newer so nothing in there... AH my laptop, It's a T43p that still runs and I used it once last month. Got it in 2005. =o
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Two 80Gb seagate hardrives setup as RAID for a bit of speed to store games and unimportant stuff. Will never know when one might die...
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The power cord! Last power supply didn't come with a cord.
Same! Mine is from a long gone windows ME system, back from the 90's
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My GPU: Sapphire HD 5850
Gonna get a new one in a few weeks time.
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A 120gb samsung hdd from 2004 and a lg dvd recorder from around 2008
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Tehnaz said:
PC Power & Cooling 750watt psu since 2007.... using it to run my new-ish gaming rig with the xfx 7970
I payed alot when I got this but its never given me problems **knock on wood**
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Sound Blaster Audigy II that's been in every system I have since probably 2002. Have yet to find an on-board sound chip that does 5.1 correctly. Even sadder, I'm using the last Daniel K drivers since Creative couldn't be bothered to debug their software.
Exactly the same as me right down to the drivers.
I also have the front panel which looks very cool
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Seagate Barracuda 200 GB HDD don't remember when I bought it, but it was long time ago.
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Probably the DVD drive, followed by an i7 920 CPU and mobo which are 3 years old. Never really found a good reason to upgrade the CPU.
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That`ll be my Creative Audigy soundcard. I have had it for seven years now I can`t say I`ll ever need another.
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Oldest piece of hardware I have in my PC is case. It remembers old Celeron Wilamette, around 2002. 2nd oldest - if somebody considered if case is hardware
- CDRW burner, fabuluous LiteOn model It's still connected due to my AM3 motherboard having an IDE controller.But I have also some older hardware at my home, some slot 1/socket 370/socket A, and I also have a working PC based on P90 and EDO RAMM.
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