What is your oldest PC component/peripheral that you still use today

[bobbybluz]

Microsoft Intellimouse 3.0. My favorite wired mouse ever. I still have 4 from 2003 and three are in use today.

 

[Panther_Seraphin]

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Currently being used

 

[Lew Zealand]

Microsoft Intellimouse 3.0. My favorite wired mouse ever. I still have 4 from 2003 and three are in use today.

I had *4* but all are dead now. sad noises.

 

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Stacker Slackers FTW

 

[Launcestonian]

I love my Razer Tiamat 7.1 headphones from 2016, they are actual real 7.1 speakers in both ear cusps - that is NOT virtualised like all of them are today.
Been trying to find another like it, but they don't make them like this anymore. This kind of real, in time sound scape is vital as far as I'm concerned for open world RPGs which I love to play.

 

[SPDIF]

Speaks for itself...

 

[natr0n]

I use 2gb and 8gb usb drives for little things. I have many of them from years ago.

 

[backwoods]

Dell SK-1000REW keyboard from 1997

 

[Jism]

Logitech MX510 for at least 12 years lol.

 

[67Elco]

That's easy...Logitech Marble mouse maybe from around 2000.

 

[Panther_Seraphin]

Stacker Slackers FTW

Was amazing to see what he did with them back on XS.......its a little sad to see what its become recently

 

[Bagerklestyne]

Mine was (retired a few months ago) my case from ancient times.

I got the case from work in 1999 and it had been sitting idle covered in dust for some years at that stage, it was formerly a server with a 486 in it, so I am speculating it's age would be 30 +/- a year or 2.

I still have the case, modified to fit 2x fan drive cages (take up 3x 5.25 bays but hold 4x 3.5" hard drives) that used to run 2 raid 5 arrays in them.

Only real reason I retired it was active service was a lack of usb type c on the front. I may yet resurrect it as my cold storage server to back up my nas.

 

[Darkleoco]

Coolermaster Haf-X purchased in 2011. Can’t justify a new case with lesser cooling and less room.

 

[cvaldes]

Not including cables, my oldest PC components are probably from the early to mid-2000s.

There's a Kensington Pocket Mouse Pro (with retractable USB cord) and a cheap Logitech mouse from that era. The Kensington mouse is particularly old. I hate notebook trackpads so I bought a travel mouse shortly after I got my first notebook computer, an Apple iBook G3 (in 2002).

There's an Apple wired keyboard from 2008 as well as a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000.

There is an external slimline La Cie DVD burner from about 2008 as well as a similar Pioneer Blu-ray drive from 2010.

There's an aluminum Mac mini stand (to hold it upright) that I know I bought for my first Mac mini (2010). Since Apple has not changed the form factor, it still works with my Mac mini M2 Pro.

I have a bunch of audio components (especially speakers, etc.) from the early 2000s.

 

[Bagerklestyne]

If we're talking computers in general I have an Amiga 500 (and plenty of other Amiga gear)

 

[DaemonForce]

Probably the case housing my Haswell i5 system. The case is an Antec that originally had a S478 P4 2.0GHz & RDRAM, from around '99-00.

It still has a case door? Mine doesn't seem to fit right anymore.

.......

It still has FEET?! ( ﾟДﾟ)

Mine didn't survive.

Absolutely NO cable management. Zero. I drilled some passages for front panel cables and drilled out the drive cages because I don't do HDDs in my workstation unless some kind of recovery is going on. Also I cut the top panel and dropped in a 360cu rad to replace the factory 240mm aluminum junk. I got the last one offered, which is pretty surprising. Anyway the case was QA'd Dec 2002. The Antec 750W is apparently from 2009 though I have no memory of getting it. Every other component is a mix of then and now.

Also, what's something you can do about fan cages? Can these be printed and shipped UPS or something? 80mm box fans suck but I still kinda need them.

 

[wolf]

IBM model M keyboard built in 1989, use it 9-5 Monday to Friday at my office job. It's one hell of a keyborar6for an IT professional to type on, and I'm hoping it will last the rest of my career and beyond.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Antec 1200 case used for my home server. I have two retired 900's as well so a lot of extra case parts if needed especially that 200mm fan.

Originally I used this with these old parts that I still have...

• Asus P5E-WS motherboard
• ACARD ANS-9010 RAMDISK with 16GB DDR2 RAM. (was also able to run in raid 0 by splitting banks over dual sata connectors)
• Intel Q6600 w/ 8 GB ECC ram
• Areca PCI-X 1120 RAID controller
  • running a RAID 6 with 4 drives and 1 hot spare
  • I actually had an revised model where they increased the cache or CPU (can't remember which at the moment)
• 5 x WD Blue WD3200AAKS 16MB cache (I think single platter for reduced heat and noise) (4 of 6 drives survived since 2009)
• Some Corsair Power Supply 650w

All was working well until Windows 10 forced an upgrade causing the RAID driver to become unstable and I lost the array. ( Should have stayed on Windows 7 )
I regret not getting the PCIe version of that RAID controller because I possibly could still use it today. It was so good with HDD performance with the onboard cache, even speeding up that ram disk.
Then SSD's came along and the rest is history.

So it survived as my workstation then file server from 2009 to 2018 (RIP) now only the case remains in use for my AMD 3950x home server.

For some reason it's kind of funny to think my 2200g in my DeskMini is hugely more performant now than the Q6600 in the fraction of the space.

 

[sirbaili]

Coolermaster Cosmos 1st Generation.

 

[Deleted member 237269]

Oh, and also this bad boy. This DVD-ROM is about 20 years old, too. A perfect monitor height calibration tool.

And yes, I have a knoife loicence, m8s.

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Oof is that the famous ”poop knife” ?

 

[Deleted member 229121]

Still in service:
My display and a 1TB WD Blue SATA SSD, both purchased in 2018.
They were part of the final upgrade I gave the old 3770K rig, along with a 1070 Ti.

Not in use, but still kicking:
A Filco Majestouch 1 from 2011, not my daily driver anymore but still works great.
A Powercolor HD 4670 512MB from 2008, donated to my parents old Phenom II x4 rig...which also still works

 

[Tomgang]

Oldest pc component still in use is a Crucial MX300 2tb sata ssd from 2017. Took it from my old X58 build and in to my current dual system.

 

[gurusmi]

My oldest build (Endor 1.0) is a:
Ryzen 2700X, 32GB RAM, AMD RX 550 (or so), Asus Crosshair X470 in an BeQuet 801 with a EKL Alpenfoehn CPU Cooler.
Naboo 1.0 is a
3800x on a Gigabyte Aorus Master 1.0, 32GB RAM, Sapphire Pulse 5700XT, Sabrent Rocket PCIe 4.0X4 SSD (The slower one),...

Right now i'm building on a new System (Endor 2.0) Naboo 1.0 will then be on Linux running as a development Database Server.

 

[Hyderz]

My desktop I used for school the i7 6700k

 

[delshay]

Can't show a picture because the computer am posting with is online. The reason i'm not on a modern computer is because of my pride & joy unique special DDR2. It's reprogram in an attempt to max out every single timing parameter at the CPU memory controller, ie lowest possible timing the controller can handle. It's failed at two timings namely 1T command & TRFC 75ns. but TRFC is not far away 80ns.

These DIMMS also has very low error. Nobody will ever understand this because it's something unique I do here & Iv'e kept it a secret for well over ten years. You can tell these DIMMS are special because it has thermal sensors, that's not normal for DDR2. I need to reprogram the EPP voltage as the max voltage is now 1.9v.