Oldest part in your main rig?

I thought my sound card had bitten the dust earlier on, got me thinking about this. It's currently the oldest component of my PC, along with the case.

Both of them were purchased in January 2007, making them just over 3 years old - and in fact everything except my keyboard is newer than that! Sort of shocking to think, but there you go.

What about you?

And by the way, your main rig only. I know you've probably all got some ancient rig in the corner - scaryjim seems to run a home for hardware that's been cast out by the rest of society ;) - but I'm interested to know about your main rigs, considering how often a lot of people seem to upgrade. Old cases I suspect, and maybe the odd floppy drive, but you tell me: what are the gems you just can't bear to part with?

It would have to be my GFX card, an ATI X1950XTX 512MB.

Not sure how old it is exactly, I remember playing the best part of £350 for it when they had just come out.

I don't play games on my PC any more so it's more than adequate.

My 2 raptors. They still throw out respectable performance.

:embarrassed:

My "gaming rig" consists of:
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, 3.4 Prescott @ 4.01ghz, 4GB Corsair XMS LL PRO @ 3-2-2-6 (I think) and a Powercolor HD 3850 AGP card after my old XFX 6800 Ultra bit the dust.
It was the dogs naynays back in the day, honest!

Out of the loop and out of the money to get back into PC gaming sadly.

My PSU, it still works, and works well :D

My WD Black HD is the oldest.. from 22/06/2009 Not even a year old.. haha.

my casetek 1018 chassis.

It's a huge monster, but it has served me well from my socket A, to socket 939 and now to my LGA775 based setup.

Don't worry - it's getting replaced by a corsair 800D once I've got the funds ;)

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Originally Posted by snootyjim

... scaryjim seems to run a home for hardware that's been cast out by the rest of society ;)

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Cheeky goit :P ;)

Oldest part of my current 'main' rig is the monitor. It's an Iiyama Vision Master S700JT - and was probably manufactured around 1994 - I've checked the monitor labels and I can't see anything obvious to confirm / refute this though. It's still doing stirling service though, and I personally won't hear a word said against it :D

Next the case / mouse / keyboard, all passed down from my last main rig (socket A). They were bought in January 2004. Otherwise I think everything in there is the same age (January 2008) except the HDD, which is a 750GB jobby I bought on here.

I have a Maxtor harddrive which has been going like... 5 years or something.

Im pretty impressed tbh, it was bought as an ZOMG I NEED A HARD DRIVE NOW and its been solid as hell. Not what i expected yet not that im complaining.

SATA Seagate hard disk.

Well it left my pc 3 years ago now and is now living in a cupboard :( but it was the floppy drive from my first ever pc, back from 1996.
Still works too ;)

ATM it's an old ide DVDrom+CDr/w combo drive (about 6years old) although that just because I haven't gotten up the effort to recable my pc to fit the new sata DVDr/w in there yet.

Hmm, in my main rig I guess it would be the X-Fi, gmail indicates that I bought it from ebuyer 27/04/2007

I mean... its possible theres some old SATA cabling in there... but that doesnt really count surely?

Other than my optical drives it would have to be my Mobo, a Foxconn Sanfransisco 2, I just searched for it on the Foxconn website & it returns no results :) It took me forever to find the manual online (Which doesn't even make any reference to the Core 2 series CPUs, which came with the mobo)

The oldest bits of my main rig are the cpu, mobo, half of the RAM, the case, the monitor, and the keyboard, all bought December 2007.

probabily my sound card from 2004 audigy 2 zs

either my x-fi or my 2 x 250GB SATA1 WD RAID Edition Drives

I'm currently using a Creative Savage4 PCI 'graphics card' in my shuttle SP35p2, awaiting newer card to arrive.

Video card is the oldest in mine. Aiming to replace it soon (ish!).

The case in mine - must be 10 years old!

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Originally Posted by TAKTAK

My PSU, it still works, and works well :D

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+1

My HX620 been great for the last 3? years.

Best peace of hardware I ever bought, I think.

If I claim my parents "main PC", the case for it is about 13 years old, but it was mine long ago.

Personally, I think the oldest components Im using are my keyboard at about 14 years old, a 1st generation Microsoft Natural Keyboard, and my 17" TFT, which is about 5 1/2 years old, but has now been relegated to 2nd display next to my new HP ZR24w.

My Q6600 by a few weeks, I bought the processor cos I seen it for less than £140 on a special offer back in 2007 and then bought a motherboard and everything when my birthday came round.

Well, it's gonna be from my Cavalier-X rig, and it has to be the CM Cavalier windowed case which I got in 2005.

The full thing lol, 2 and a half years old now, not bad for a laptop me thinks.

....does screws get to be included? i bought some fancy pink screws way back lol to long to rememebr when but still. otherwise it would have to be the dvd-rw, bought it in 2007

My speakers are probably the oldest part..videologic something or other..still working perfectly too..inside the rig the oldest is my x-fi extreme music card.

120gb 7200rpm 2mb cache hard drive, pulled from a server in 2002/3? (no idea how long it had been in there, but the raid controller had died so they got rid of the hard drives as well).

SB audigy2 zs is probably the next oldest.

I have an 74GB Raptor that my Dad gave me when I built my PC. That was in 2007 so he must of bought it in '06. 4 years old and still going strong!

theres a pair of 36gb raptors i unplugged a month ago. they will be in the fs thread soon :)

My oldest part is my keyboard. It was included in an off the shelf system I bought from PC world about 10 years ago. (The week before the P3 500 launched) I also haved a CRT monitor (this is my only monitor on my main PC) which I got from work because it was going to be thrown out, no idea how old it is. For proper PC components it would have to be my HDDs. I have a 400GB SATA drive that I bought when I did my first home build PC, and a 74GB Raptor which I bought a few months later. I also currently have an 80GB IDE drive, I have no idea where it came from or how old it is though.

The IDE and the Raptop are about to be replaced by a 15k RM SAS drive. :)

the onldest bit i have is a ebuyer value mouse i bought back in 2005. oldest proper bit in my main rig is a tv card i bought from these forums about half a year ago. not sure exactly how long he had it for etc. i dont think usb risers for extra ports count? if so thats from when ver usb came out

I'll have to my monitor, which I got in 2008, I don't have anythng left that I was running say more than 4 years ago.

1994 Dec Prioris case.
Mid 90's adaptec UW scsi board.
Late 90's Plextor CD reader and Writer.
Old[might be 80's] Sony half height CD drive, came out of a really ancient DEC
workstation, it looked old in 1994 when I got it!
Assortment of SCSI drives, it has a hot swap bay, they range from 100mb upto 37GB
So it's fairly old.

The board, cpu isn't so old.
2005 Opteron 146, msi board, ddr ram, 300gb WD sata HDD.

Had the case quite a long time, since pentium II's came out.
It's had a 233 PII, 600 Athlon, 2000XP, and the Opteron.

Almost forgot the keyboard is a pre 1994 IBM , nice n slim with a lovely touch.

i still have a xi fi music from 3 years ago

gotta be my speakers too;

A pair of Goodman active 45's

I've had them for so long it hurts when I try to figure out exactly how long

they are actually top of my list of things to replace, just can't figure out if I want new active speakers, stereo amp and floor standing speakers, or AV receiver and 5.1 speaker package
been leaning towards a little T-Class amp and re-using some old eltax bookshelves I have laying around.

Everything is less than 3 months old, with the RAM being the oldest at about 4 months :)

It's probably the Pioneer DVD-RW drive. I think I had it in an external firewire case for ages before I put my desktop together. I might be wrong though, I may have ponnied up for a new one when I built the PC. Other than that it would be the Dell 2407 monitor. Had that on my laptop for a couple of years initially.

Never thought about speakers.
mine is connected to a quad amp and a pair of Tannoy
Lancaster speakers, so 60's speakers!

Iiyama Vision Master pro 451, 9 or 10 years old.

My SD37P2 SFF barebone was bought in late 2006,the optical drive was also bought around the same time as were one of the hard drives. My 20" monitor was also made in 2006 and I also have a 15" monitor I also use which was bought in 2005.

Think mine has to be one of my 500gb samsung f1's. Think its about 2 years old. Otherwise my X-Fi titanium which is a year and half old!

I tend to replace just about everything when I build a new pc!

I think my keyboard is well over a decade old... apart from that I have an e-mu 1820m sound card which is from 2004, PCI-X and working fine under Windows 7.

That would be my Gateway keyboard, from the days when a USB keyboard was a novelty.

I spilt ink over it in a CD labelling accident, so I looks a little more cow like now as well :D

keyboard monitor, speakers and DVD drive from 2000 (or could be 2001); my first PC.

Thinking about I have never cleaned my keyboard either.....

It would be an Asus/Pioneer DVD-RW, closely followed by my XiFi Xtreme Music.

The oldest part on my rig is me :(

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Originally Posted by blueball

The oldest part on my rig is me :(

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Arrrrr, poor thing. :(

Hang on a minute are you some kind of killer cyborg commando?:undecided

Either that or he had a tragic accident with some no more nails.

my oldest part in my main pc is my case: a Thermaltake Xaser III (non windowed... always regretted that) from 2003?
otherwise, then next oldest part is the Zalman Resorator v1 from 2004?
still running strong, and silent :D

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Originally Posted by snootyjim

Either that or he had a tragic accident with some no more nails.

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Close ;)

In my main gaming pc its probably the graphics card, GTX260BE, i bought that not long after they came out and its still running fine, no real need, i feel, to upgrade atm.