Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Droidbot]

my dad has had an i7 870 since 2010. 7 year old processor still pushes 3 1080p screens and modern games respectably with a 650 ti

[TheRandomness]

I have the remains of my first laptop, which featured a C2D T7200, 2GBs of DDR2 and an Nvidia Go 7700 c:

[ATFink]

I honestly think I will be able to use my 4790k, z97, hx850 PSU, and 32 GB of RAM setup for a decade (made in 2014, possibly retire in 2024).

 

The upgrade path I will follow will most likely be through higher resolution panels and GPUs (which require less CPU power as resolution increases due to dropping framerates), and buying new forms of data storage as my hdd gets old.

 

Also potentially a different cooling system will be considered if I want to dabble into custom loop watercooling (or the AIO gets old and needs to be replaced) or a new case if I want to make the setup look better.

[spellmanuk]

i have a macpro from 2006 still ticking away with two quad core xeons and 16gb of ram (8GB each) use it as a server for personal use running windows server 2008 

 

also still got a really old ibm thinkpad laptop floating around somewhere i use as i need a serial port to flash ROM chips if memory serves me correctly its windows 98, 400MHz CPU and about 64 or 128MB of RAM but still going strong 

[Coldfuson]

Honestly with my 4930k I'm more worried that PCIE 4 and PCIE 5 will come out and leave my motherboard in the dust far before I fully utilize all 12 cores. I love this chip. 

[ybriK]

My 2700K at 4.5GHz can still keep up against stock clock Haswell/Skylake counterparts.

[it_dont_work]

The good old ecs elite 9800gt I'm rocking, it was the first gpu I ever purchased new. Now it is my spare pci-e card for testing purposes or to throw in those times  while I sell 'current' gpu

[ProjectBox153]

5 hours ago, kaiju_wars said:

I'm cheating a little.  It ain't individual hardware.

But I have a 12" PowerBook G4 from 2004 that still runs.  I have TenFourFox on it.

I have one of those, but it is ridiculously slow with TenFourFox. Same goes for my PowerMac G4 MDD. Is it that way for you, really slow?

 

For the main topic, my Core 2 Duo E8400 equipped Dell OptiPlex 780 Small Form Factor refuses to stop. I've most recently been using it to house my 3TB Seagate Barracuda backup drive, and it runs like a champ. Core 2 Duo's never stumble for me, and they always seem up to the job at hand (that and I have like 20 of them).

[kaiju_wars]

5 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I have one of those, but it is ridiculously slow with TenFourFox. Same goes for my PowerMac G4 MDD. Is it that way for you, really slow?

It's slow, but I wouldn't say painfully slow.  I've had to use slower computers.

 

[ProjectBox153]

35 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

It's slow, but I wouldn't say painfully slow.  I've had to use slower computers.

 

Hmm. TenFourFox has never been "usable" fast for me.

[kaiju_wars]

1 hour ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Hmm. TenFourFox has never been "usable" fast for me.

I wouldn't say it's necessarily usable... just not painfully slow, considering the age and all.

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, kaiju_wars said:

I wouldn't say it's necessarily usable... just not painfully slow, considering the age and all.

My PowerBook G4 and my PowerMac G4 both lock up when using it.

[kaiju_wars]

Hmm, never had that issue with mine.  Could be processor speed/amount of RAM?

[imPixelTV]

I still use one of my old laptops, this one's from 2008 and it's built like a brick. I've dropped this thing from ~1m and it's got no cosmetic damage. I think the RAM might be dying tho, and DDR2 SODIMMs are expensive so it wouldn't be economically viable to keep it going if the RAM turns out to be dying. I'm probably going to move to this other old laptop (from 2009) due to upgradeable RAM and better Windows 7 driver support (the 2008 laptop only officially supports XP and Vista)

[ProjectBox153]

1 hour ago, kaiju_wars said:

Hmm, never had that issue with mine.  Could be processor speed/amount of RAM?

The PowerMac has a single 1GHz G4 and 2GB of RAM. Oh well, I use Safari if I need to. These two machines mostly just do Spotify.

[chilicheeseburger]

I still have my MX518, couldn't tell how old it is exactly but it might be 10 years old by now. Apart from the rubber part on the side showing some serious wear it still looks good and functions perfectly. Doesn't tie in with the modern gaming pc kind of look but who cares. If it ever breaks I'll stick with Logitech for sure.

[kaiju_wars]

16 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

The PowerMac has a single 1GHz G4 and 2GB of RAM. Oh well, I use Safari if I need to. These two machines mostly just do Spotify.

I hear ya.  Mine has a PowerPC G4 @ 1.33GHz.  1.25GB of RAM.

[PlayStation 2]

looks at FX-4100 and 360GB Seagate Barracuda hard drive

[Coaxialgamer]

I stilk have a pentium m dothan laptop from back in 2004/2005. Dell unit,  1gb of ram.  Battery is dead though.  I have a certain fondness for the old Banias and dothan chips... 

[Robotchickjenn]

I have an IBM Thinkpad 560X still going strong lol It doesn't really do much, obviously, since it can't connect to the webernets. 

[Kobathor]

Not that old, but my good ol' 7970 is serving me quite well. Only from 2012, but it still runs games like BF1 on High settings and gets over 70FPS.

 

Something older that served me well, but I replaced out of fear it would die- I had an original 300GB WD VelociRaptor that was my boot drive from when I first received my computer (2009, a Core2Duo and no dGPU,) all the way until 2015. It was making weird noises and such so I ditched it for an 850 EVO.

[ProjectBox153]

3 hours ago, kaiju_wars said:

I hear ya.  Mine has a PowerPC G4 @ 1.33GHz.  1.25GB of RAM.

My PowerBook is a G4 @ 1.33GHz w/ 768 MB of RAM. It may not be good for web browsing, but it is really good for Audacity.

[MoonlightSylv]

I have a 1999 slot loading iMac G3 that still works, I was almost sure it was dead about a month ago when I pulled it out of storage but after cleaning it out and letting it sit, it works, it can even kinda get online.

[ProjectBox153]

4 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

I have a 1999 slot loading iMac G3 that still works, I was almost sure it was dead about a month ago when I pulled it out of storage but after cleaning it out and letting it sit, it works, it can even kinda get online.

Oh cool! I have four of them, but only two work. One of the two broken ones is a Strawberry tray loader from 1998. 

[MoonlightSylv]

3 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Oh cool! I have four of them, but only two work. One of the two broken ones is a Strawberry tray loader from 1998. 

Nice, mine is Blueberry