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

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On November 30, 2012, 6:30 PM

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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  1. December 3, 2012 9:45 AM
    TorturedChaos, TechSpot Chancellor, said:

    My Nvidia 8800 GT 1GB. I fried my 9800 while playing with overclocking it and about a week before that I had picked up a PC at a yard sale for $20 that happen to have a 8800 GT in it. Still going strong.

    At work I think the oldest part we have is a computer or two with P4 cpu's in them.

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  2. December 3, 2012 12:20 PM
    sasrob said:

    Got to be my epox 9npa-ultra mob. its NF-4 chipset...with a 4600x2 and 7900GTX with a raptor 10,000rpm 76GB hdd. all works apart from the USB freeze up the system now and then. not bad for 8 years old system. got some very old pci 32mb gpu and agp 64bit gpu next to useless now a days lol...

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  3. December 3, 2012 2:36 PM
    Dawn1113
    Dawn1113 said:

    Two WD Caviar Blacks and an 80gb GSkill SATA II SSD. It doesn't look like I'll be retiring any of these three soon as they are still doing what they are supposed to do.

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  4. December 3, 2012 3:05 PM
    mainframe said:

    My trusty IBM model M keyboard (actually the oldest part on every PC in the house) It's birth cert. reads 1993-01-28

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  5. December 5, 2012 12:06 PM
    Guest said:

    I have a fully funcional Pentium I @ 100Mhz... Of course I dont use it...

    Im my current PC, the case have survived since 2000.

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  6. December 5, 2012 5:00 PM
    jobeard
    jobeard, TS Ambassador, said:

    Forgive me - - the OLDEST part is ....... M E :grin:

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