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

[hitech0101]

GPU HD7770 bought in 2012. It was a good fit in my old machine which I still have but don't use and it is working well in my new PC too.

 

[thejokercu]

I got a TwinHan DVB-s Digital Satellite TV PCI Card since 2002

 

[Vaneheart]

Probably my Dell 2001FP LCD monitor I got back in August of 2001 or so. I'm still using it as a tertiary monitor.
Followed by my black NEC 3.5 floppy drive that isn't even hooked up to my system anymore, yet still sits in my Corsair case.

When upgrading though, I usually take forever to upgrade the optical drives and the sound card. Doesn't seem like sound card technology has upgraded much past maybe the X-Fi unless you want something specific for a setup.

 

[Uncle Al]

I bought my tower in 1991 and have upgraded the system over a dozen times. The last original part in the tower was the power supply that was replaced 8 years ago so literally it's the plastic case and metal frame inside. I remembered I stuck the price tag on the inside cover .... paid all of $45 for it back in 91 ..... the Timex of computer cases! LOL

 

[mcborge]

The oldest part of my current setup is my Corsair GS800 psu.

 

[cartera]

In the man cave study here I purchased a new 2016 HP Pavilion midtower Core i5 PC mid June 2016 build date is 03. XX .2016 ,I purchased a 240GB Vector 180 SSD for a clean windows 10 install at the same time and it was running clean windows 10 on the SSD the second day here .

As for the current attachments the Schiit Audio stack & Cherry MX brown mechanical keyboard came later along with a 27" PC screen a, Samsung QDOT 55 KS8000 4K HDR 1000 TV ,new ELAC 5.1 Speakers and a Sony ES HT 7.1 770 watt AVR .

The prior not old Logitech 5.1 audio and 2015 55" 4K Sony HDR TV (not as good as the new TV but decent ) have been repurposed in other rooms but I don't game or do any heavy lifting with this PC beyond an occasional media file transcode so it's fine .

There is another custom DIY Core i7 ,Nvidia Geforce d/GPU PC and 40" 1080p Sony TV panel in my family use PC game ,drive sim ,2.1 music room, outside of other TV's and media players here and the family cinema room with the 2015 4K HDR Sony from in here now and its own AVR and 5.1.

The Core i7 Game ,drive sim DIY custom PC is getting a new Seagate 2TB Fire Cuda Gaming Hybrid SSD/HDD and a clean windows 10 install sometime soon after the drive gets here from Amazon prime tomorrow ,it's an upgraded 2012 PC build and the HDD is the oldest part now aside from the case and DVD /CD burner .

I have a restored vintage mid century 1962-1965 vacuum tube general coverage Hallicrafters /Raytheon SWL (short wave ) radio coming from E Bay for in here to go with my modern Grundig gen coverage field radio and the other stuff in the man cave .

,The mid century SWL radio should here in 3 days , a decent 8-12 tube 1937-1938 Zenith Radio large black round dial shortwave restoration or project ,is my next thing in here ,iI had one back in the late 1960's ,they work real well and can hold thier own on AM /SW with a modern $1K radio today beyond that they are way cool when they work .

I think Techspot need to do an article on your house!

Oldest part of my PC is probably my OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD from 2009.

 

[Nobina]

I have a 12 year old Logitech keyboard. Let's see something made today last that long.

 

[fimbles]

Sadly. Im the oldest thing on my pc at the moment...

 

[HugsNotDrugs]

Bought speakers to go with my SoundBlaster 16 in the early 90s. Yellow, but still working excellent.

Apart from that I bought a Corsair AX-series PSU in 2012 that I expect will last a minimum of 10 years.

 

[veLa]

I'm running an ancient Linksys PCI WiFi card circa 2004-2005. The thing doesn't even support 5GHz connections and occupies my mobo's only legacy PCI slot. I rarely have to use WiFi on my desktop so I've never felt the need to replace it.

 

[kapital98]

A Blu-ray drive and TV Tuner from ~2008. Both were expensive at the time and good investments in hindsight. I'm glad I picked a SATA and PCIe interface even though they were the exception at the time.

 

[axiomatic13]

My computers user is 49 years old. That is the worst part of my computer.

 

[erickmendes]

And you're going to leave us hanging with that? Without even giving us so much as a hint of the back story or reason for such carnage?

Well... Ok. I've used to play like 4 hours every day. I worked partime (fulltime salary), she worked fulltime, so I had lot's of time to play, still I left the house chores to her... Let's say she started to develop a hate to my gaming habits because of that. Time passed, I've started to play less (like 2 hours a day?), I've started helping with chores, still wasn't enough... All the backstory was accumulated, and when things got ugly, well, she started destroying things.

The first was an 24" LCD monitor. It was brand new, the time I got it it was worth 300 dollars. I was seated in front of it playing Dragon Age, still remember it. She just got it up and thrown it down with all her muscle power. I simply stood still, seated, with not much reaction left... that was the first thing she destroyed. I think it was 5 years ago.

Jumping a little ahead, 9 months ago she destroyed the most expensive PC I've built. It has an Samsung 950 PRO on it... luck me, I had just sold a GTX 980 and put a GTX 970. It had an 750W modular PSU. The only thing that survived was the dual memory kit, even the case was too bent to be usefull... I still have the video I got with my cellphone of the aftermath, me open it's dead guts up... Even the processor was destroyed, it was an 6600K...

And if your wondering, I still married with her... we got a son (that's the main reason I still with her..)

Edit.: She also destroyed an gaming headset... she just got a grab of of side and pull it out downward, making it fall apart in two pieces, still in my head... One of the PCs she destroyed was by simply droping a full glass of water inside my PC while turned on. She destroyed a XBOX 360 controller by throwing it to the ground... Can't remember the rest. The other PC she destroyed I think she had dropped as well...

 

[QuantumPhysics]

I just built a new PC for my office.

Is there a way I can cool it without having any air entrance from outside so no dust ever gets in?

Besides oil cooling....

 

[captaincranky]

@erickmendes So, I'm looking at your surname, Mendes, and thinking this must be a hot blooded, hot tempered, Latina girl, you must be continuing to disappoint. Yes?

 

[captaincranky]

I just built a new PC for my office.

Is there a way I can cool it without having any air entrance from outside so no dust ever gets in?

Besides oil cooling....

You should ask Intel, if they would be kind enough to give you office space in one of their fab clean rooms.

 

[erickmendes]

@erickmendes So, I'm looking at your surname, Mendes, and thinking this must be a hot blooded, hot tempered, Latina girl, you must be continuing to disappoint. Yes?

Yep, we are latinos... And yep, sure. Let's just say that we made an arrangement about (not) destroying computers, and that I'm also building cheaper gaming rigs... (core i3 6400, h110, gtx 1060... just what I need...).

 

[captaincranky]

Well, @erickmendes If NASA made this work for the Mars Rover, you could probably adapt something like it to your situation...

 

[YrralRellim]

Externally, my NEC MultiSync LCD-1830 is still working well. I purchased it USED around 2001. For the PC itself, it has to be a tossup between the black Antec Sonata III 500 case and my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard, both are circa mid to late 2007.

 

[erickmendes]

Well, @erickmendes If NASA made this work for the Mars Rover, you could probably adapt something like it to your situation...

It's only Mars... Wait till they get to know my wife LOL

 

[Mugsy]

*Internally*, it's my 2003 TV tuner card (*externally*, my old keyboard), an old ATI HDTV Wonder dedicated PCI card. I bought it in January of 2003 (when local TV stations just started broadcasting in HD Over-The-Air) to watch the Super Bowl in HD. It also supports RF input, so I can hook up a VCR (yeah, I have one of those too) to digitize old tapes. I watch TV using it each and every day (my PC is also my TV with full surround sound, Blueray player, etc.)

They never made a driver for 64bit Windows 7 (my OS), but fortunately the Vista 64bit driver works (doesn't work with Win10 though).

My last two MoBo upgrades, I deliberately picked ones with at least one PCI slot just to accommodate this workhorse of a card that has never failed me. The original TV tuner/viewer software was for XP only, but Windows Media Center's TV app has always been far superior, so that's not a loss.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I despise Windows 10 anyway, so I have no need to "upgrade" (so far.)

 

[Stupido]

PSU, Monitor & Heatsink - in that order...

 

[dkupy]

It's got to be my Enlight 7325 ATX case. I got my third build in it and the only reason I kept it is the ON/OFF switch which is spring loaded and feels like heaven. You have to try it.

 

[Zedahr]

Still have a warranty for free labor and parts on a three year custom made computer. Runs out in December 2017. Been thinking of replacing my 3D Titan Blacks for two 1080ti's. Guess I'll have to make a pecking order for parts replacement going forward.

 

[Phr3d]

Yamaha speakers & Nokia 445x-Pro 21"? CRT, I wouldn't hazard to guess how old, for 2nd 'puter's photo and music.