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Got an SB Audigy 2 as my second soundcard for headset/voicecomms. I don't recall exactly when I got it but I reckon it was around 2003. Still sounds good!
Haha, well my gaming PC which is old now, the oldest thing in there is everything lol, from the Fatality FP-IN9 Motherboard, to the EVGA 8800 Ultra.
7 year-old Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P, bought from Scan on Tuesday 18 Nov 2008. I had the original Core2 E8400 and 8GB RAM until I recently upgraded to a modded Xeon E5450 and 16GB due to some things feeling a bit sluggish. Now KSP runs better (and it will run even better when multi-threaded 1.1 comes out) and I have no reason to upgrade for several more years.
The DVD drive died a few years ago, and obviously hard drives have been gradually replaced, ending with my current bulletproof 80GB X25-M SSD. Everything else except the big but quiet cooler has been changed: Chieftec Dragon case to Lian Li A71, Corsair HX520 PSU to Seasonic X560 (proactive replacement every ~ 3 or 4 years). Aside from the addition of a RAID card and SSD, that's it. The performance of the EP45-UD3P - for day-to-day tasks - is easily comparable to the modern i5 which I use at work.
It has been turned on pretty much 24/7 - the only times it has been turned off is for upgrades/de-dusting, power cuts (graceful due to UPS) and lightning storms. It turned out to be a rather sensible and economical purchase.
My next upgrade might be to something similar to the Gigabyte's recent Intel C230 based motherboards, but perhaps v2 or gen2 of those.
Last edited by smargh; 23-10-2015 at 10:12 PM.
My oldest parts are :
i7 2600 Q1 2011
ASUS P8P67 Q1 2011
Samsung F3 1TB - 2010
check out my system spec. Apart from the new SSDs it's all pre-Sandy Bridge. That's right. I couldn't wait two months for them to fix the B2 rev problems with Sandy Bridge P-series, so muggins here bought a cheap holding system to tide him through until 1366 successor came out. What a good idea wasn't. Still running the dual core. Once the fibre connection disappeared I've not been able to game enough to justify upgrading. Slightly wish I'd just waited and got the fixed B3 version or whatever the final one was.
The oldest part in my main rig is a parallel port header cable pulled from my first Windows PC bought back in 1995.
I'm using the parallel port to connect an HD44780 LCD display.
In my sisters rig I built I think about 4 years ago I have a card reader about 12/13 years old. My friend gave me any old XP machine last year and nothing good in it worth keeping bar a 7 in 1 card reader which has come in useful a fair few times for myself and my sister. It was bought in the Jan sales in 2003 (maybe 2002) as my friend had several problems upgrading to xp service pack 1, and I was the one who had to fix it. I remember the problem well as it was a right pain to sort out.
9 year old creative XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro sound card, still working well under windows 10.
Every time I go for a board update I think PCI would have been ditched yet I keep ending up with a pci slot so keep using it.
Maybe it won't survive the next upgrade.
Up until a few months ago I still was occasionally using my computer from 2000. It had an Abit BH6 Rev. 1.0 with 768mb of PC133 ram, a Celeron Coppermine 900mhz in a slocket upgraded from a Celeron 300a. I also had a Creative CD drive from 2001, 3.5" floppy drive, LG CD Burner, ATi Radeon 9200 SE 128mb, 80gb Samsung IDE hard drive upgraded from a 2gb IBM IDE drive. To me that computer was pretty ancient but I had fond memories of using it. Now I use a computer I built in 2012, which is mostly up to date with the Palit GTS 450 I use for hybrid physics probably being the oldest part currently in it. Actually probably the oldest part in my computer is a X-fi Fatality Pro sound card which I got to replace my Audigy 2.
For me it is a 320GB WD Blue drive from 7-8 years ago.
My PC has a 250 GB Western Digital Hard Drive that i took out of our old Gateway FX400. I use it for my Linux OS and it gets the job done.
My system is pretty much up to date but I still have a Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro sound card, which I manually replaced the op-amps (thanks to my soldering iron) about 7 years ago.
All of my old PC stuff went to a charity that helps others less fortunate than most of us on here They refurbish them then put them in schools in developing countries like Africa and south America.
Re-purpose old technology helps the enviroment no land fill site dumps
Pleiades (24-10-2015)
Apple I in the garage. Oldest component in use is probably a 250gb HDD somewhere - I have a tendancy to farm out old components to relatives and friends.
Had you asked me 2 weeks ago it would have been the whole pc, it was 7 years old except the gfx card, but it died 2 weeks ago and had to replace all except the gfx so the gfx is 1 year old as the oldest part
Probably the case or DVD writer. Think the case is an antec 300 -no USB 3 but as I have no USB 3 devices it doesn't bother me!
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