QOTW: What is the oldest component in your PC?

[HEXUS]

Surely you can beat my nine-year-old optical drive?

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[Phage]

I've got a 10+ year-old HDD in the NAS

[Chadders87]

The user?

Mine was built from scratch using new parts 3 years ago... it's still a toddler!

[Ferral]

I hope you aren't pointing that hoarder comment at me alone

I happen to know good ol Saracen has enough old bits to cobble together a kray supercomputer!!

My current system was built 2011 and it got a little refresh last week with a new R9 380, none of it reallly old.

I do have my 1985 Breadbin C64, technically that was a PC of the day, it is sat setup to my right as I scribe this and is used quite often!! It does have a CPU (MOS Technology 6510), VGA it has the VIC II and not forgetting the 3 channel SID for sound and a whopping 64k ram.

But proper PC stuff.

I do have an old setup with a basic Windows 7 setup on it, old Socket 939 board sporting an Athlon 64 single core running at 3.8 Ghz, 2 Gb Ram, a hard drive my dear friend Zak33 sent me, an IDE DVD Writer incase I need to install something from CD, sporting a Leadtek Geforce 7950 with a whopping 512Mb ram, the reason for the setup though is the internal 3.5" floppy drive.

This machine is primarily used to write the old Atari ST and Archimedes discs with Omniflop, I also have a cable that allows me to connect my Commodore 64 VIC 1541 drive (beige model not the same color as the C64, originally shipped with VIC 20), once this drive is connected I can write the C64 disc images back onto proper 5.25" discs.

[LSG501]

I've got a synology ds106j and 2 external caddies with an old pata drives in them, they;'ve got to be 10+ years old.... still going strong (touch wood lol)

In the pc it would again a hard drive.

[sykobee]

Excluding the Amstrad CPC 464 and Amiga 500, I do have a PC I built in 2008 set up and running, and the other half still has an ancient 2006 Dell crapbox somewhere. I've got older PCs (from 2001), but they're in storage rather than being used.

Mainly I use a 2011 MacBook Pro, and since having a child I haven't had the time to play games, so upgrading systems has fallen by the wayside to be honest.

I suspect the person with a working Commodore PET will win this :-)

[Kumagawa]

I have an MTRON Pro 7500 SSD from 2008 that's my oldest component. The difference between it and a new SSD as an OS drive is unnoticeable in normal day to day usage.

[DemonHighwayman]

I did a full rebuild last summer, the only old thing I still use would be the remote control=

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(circa 2007)
I even changed the IR receiver to something that would blend in more with the new case.

[scaryjim]

My HTPC is still built into the Antec Aria I bought over 10 years ago. Can't see that case going anywhere in a hurry, particularly since I worked out how to mod a 1u PSU to fit it

Don't think I have anything older than that left now; I've had a couple of clear outs over the last 5 years or so that've eaten through the retro technology collection.

I did, however, find an audio cable in the shed the other day that I bought when in my mid-teens, which is really going back some...

[Jace007]

I've got a matrox millennium in the 2nd computer for a VGA LCD monitor, think its got either 4mb or 8mb cant remember lol, its I wouldn't sell it / throw it away for the world
(LOL year right who'd buy that) I had to bin an old Yamaha x8 CD Writer was still working btw

[The Hand]

In my old Athlon 64 desktop, there resides a DVD-ROM from 2001 and a 60GB HD (ide!) from 2002.

[AGTDenton]

Oldest component inside my main PC is the Motherboard. It's the only thing I've not changed since I built it.
Sadly after turning it off the BIOS has a fit when I turn it back on, it incorrectly believes its been overclocked and wont post until I have gone into the BIOS. Previously I believed it and loaded failsafe defaults then it booted fine, but more recently I simply load the BIOS, save without making any changes, quit and it boots fine. Its probably to do with the fact ASUS would prefer me to actually put the cards in the right slots. But I just cant be bothered when I know the way round it is far easier to deal with. Restarting the PC doesn't have this issue so I now leave it on 24/7. Dealing with PC's all day at work, the last PC I want to deal with is my home computer so as long as its booting to Windows in some sort of fashion I'm happy

[Millennium]

Oldest component inside my main PC is the Motherboard. It's the only thing I've not changed since I built it.
Sadly after turning it off the BIOS has a fit when I turn it back on, it incorrectly believes its been overclocked and wont post until I have gone into the BIOS. Previously I believed it and loaded failsafe defaults then it booted fine, but more recently I simply load the BIOS, save without making any changes, quit and it boots fine. Its probably to do with the fact ASUS would prefer me to actually put the cards in the right slots. But I just cant be bothered when I know the way round it is far easier to deal with. Restarting the PC doesn't have this issue so I now leave it on 24/7. Dealing with PC's all day at work, the last PC I want to deal with is my home computer so as long as its booting to Windows in some sort of fashion I'm happy

Have you tried changing the CMOS battery? CR2032

[Plasmastorm]

The case is the oldest thing, Corsair 600T. Got it after the Hexus review and still had no itch to replace it which is very rare for me. Solid bit of kit.
Oldest part I own, a 4mb Voodoo 1 which I bought new for £155. That's about 20 years old now, bought it to go in a Pentium 200/4mb edo rig to run GL quake when I was 12

[setras]

Microsoft trackball explorer which i got some time around 2000

[simonpreston]

I've got a PC I built in April 07, which is still going strong. Although, in true Trigg style, it has had a new CPU, new RAM, new hard disk, new DVD-R, new graphics card, new PSU and new case. The only part of it that has been there from the start is the motherboard. Which is an Asus P5W DH Deluxe. The machine still has plenty of fight in it, so no need to retire it just yet.

I also have a case, which currently houses an i3 machine, which I've had for a very long time. Possibly as far back as 02, but I'm not 100% sure tbh. Still does a fine job, although I am looking to finally replace it with a much smaller case.

I also have an Iiyama TFT monitor I bought in 04 (5:4). It's height is the same as the 20" 16:9 monitor it sits next to, so it's nicely proportionate still, so fits in nicely. They go with the first mentioned desktop (main desktop has 2x Dell 24" monitors )