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Working, and USEFUL are two different things.  I have tons of old working technology...even one of those laptops from WAYYYY back in the day with DOS in black and orange.  Boots right up, needs a CMOS replacement but that doesn't stop it from operating.

 

The oldest, useful in my daily life tech - my OLD smart phone - it does everything I request of it so I wont replace it until it doesn't - an LG VM670

Workstation Laptop: Dell Precision 7540, Xeon E-2276M, 32gb DDR4, Quadro T2000 GPU, 4k display

Wifes Rig: ASRock B550m Riptide, Ryzen 5 5600X, Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6700 XT, 16gb (2x8) 3600mhz V-Color Skywalker RAM, ARESGAME AGS 850w PSU, 1tb WD Black SN750, 500gb Crucial m.2, DIYPC MA01-G case

My Rig: ASRock B450m Pro4, Ryzen 5 3600, ARESGAME River 5 CPU cooler, EVGA RTX 2060 KO, 16gb (2x8) 3600mhz TeamGroup T-Force RAM, ARESGAME AGV750w PSU, 1tb WD Black SN750 NVMe Win 10 boot drive, 3tb Hitachi 7200 RPM HDD, Fractal Design Focus G Mini custom painted.  

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 5 3600,ASRock B450M Pro4 (3dmark.com)

Daughter 1 Rig: ASrock B450 Pro4, Ryzen 7 1700 @ 4.2ghz all core 1.4vCore, AMD R9 Fury X w/ Swiftech KOMODO waterblock, Custom Loop 2x240mm + 1x120mm radiators in push/pull 16gb (2x8) Patriot Viper CL14 2666mhz RAM, Corsair HX850 PSU, 250gb Samsun 960 EVO NVMe Win 10 boot drive, 500gb Samsung 840 EVO SSD, 512GB TeamGroup MP30 M.2 SATA III SSD, SuperTalent 512gb SATA III SSD, CoolerMaster HAF XM Case. 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/37004594?

Daughter 2 Rig: ASUS B350-PRIME ATX, Ryzen 7 1700, Sapphire Nitro+ R9 Fury Tri-X, 16gb (2x8) 3200mhz V-Color Skywalker, ANTEC Earthwatts 750w PSU, MasterLiquid Lite 120 AIO cooler in Push/Pull config as rear exhaust, 250gb Samsung 850 Evo SSD, Patriot Burst 240gb SSD, Cougar MX330-X Case

 

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5 minutes ago, Jessica.Fox said:

What's the oldest working device you own? I'm curious to see what kind of aged devices are still kicking around.

I had a Dell Optiplex GX260 running Pfsense as a router/firewall for years. Looks like it will be retired soon when we upgrade our internet speed though. It sits around 45% cpu load with a 100/10Mbps speed and we're upgrading to 200/200Mbps. So it would not handle that well. :P 

Fine you want the PSU tier list? Have the PSU tier list: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1116640-psu-tier-list-40-rev-103/

 

Stille (Desktop)

Ryzen 9 3900XT@4.5Ghz - Cryorig H7 Ultimate - 16GB Vengeance LPX 3000Mhz- MSI RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3x OC - SanDisk Plus 480GB - Crucial MX500 500GB - Intel 660P 1TB SSD - (2x) WD Red 2TB - EVGA G3 650w - Corsair 760T

Evoo Gaming 15"
i7-9750H - 16GB DDR4 - GTX 1660Ti - 480GB SSD M.2 - 1TB 2.5" BX500 SSD 

VM + NAS Server (ProxMox 6.3)

1x Xeon E5-2690 v2  - 92GB ECC DDR3 - Quadro 4000 - Dell H310 HBA (Flashed with IT firmware) -500GB Crucial MX500 (Proxmox Host) Kingston 128GB SSD (FreeNAS dev/ID passthrough) - 8x4TB Toshiba N300 HDD

Toys: Ender 3 Pro, Oculus Rift CV1, Oculus Quest 2, about half a dozen raspberry Pis (2b to 4), Arduino Uno, Arduino Mega, Arduino nano (x3), Arduino nano pro, Atomic Pi. 

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I forget the exact model, but its a early 90's Compaq Presario. According to some basic maths, its circa 1993; which places it at ~23 years old.

Rocking a Pentium 1 @ 200Mhz, 48MiB of PC66 RAM, 3.5" floppy, CDROM burner, a ZIP drive, and the original 6GB Quantum 5.25" IDE HDD. Recently I added in a 120GB 2.5" SSD and reinstalled Windows 98 SE on that, for memes and speed (the PC can only see the SSD as 8GB, lmfao).

 

I also have a circa 2001 laptop, not sure on specs; mainly because Windows XP isn't activated and I haven't been able to get it to reinstall.

 

Lastly, I have a circa 2000 Compaq Presario of some kind. 

This desktop rocks a Pentium 4 @ 1.7Ghz, 1GiB of (possibly) DDR(2) RAM. 3.5" floppy, CDROM burner, DVD burner, Nvidia GeForce 256 (or Geforce Mx400, I forget which card I have in it), a 35GB 3.5" IDE HDD, and a 70GB 2.5" IDE HDD. I plan on putting a 120GB SSD in there, for some extra memes and speed; might also looks at getting a newer AGP card as well (but rip Steam XP support).

Primary PC: - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8G3tXv (Windows 10 Home)

HTPC: - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KdBb4n (Windows 10 Home)
Server: Dell Precision T7500 - Dual Xeon X5660's, 44GB ECC DDR3, Dell Nvidia GTX 645 (Windows Server 2019 Standard)      

*SLI Rig* - i7-920, MSI-X58 Platinum SLI, 12GB DDR3, Dual EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 in SLI - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GHw6vW (Windows 7 Pro)

HP DC7900 - Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB DDR2, Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT (Windows Vista)

Compaq Presario 5000 - Pentium 4 1.7Ghz, 1.7GB SDR, PowerColor Radeon 9600 Pro (Windows XP x86 Pro)
Compaq Presario 8772 - Pentium MMX 200Mhz, 48MB PC66, 6GB Quantum HDD, "8GB" HP SATA SSD adapted to IDE (Windows 98 SE)

Asus M32AD - Intel i3-4170, 8GB DDR3, 250GB Seagate 2.5" HDD (converting to SSD soon), EVGA GeForce GTS 250, OEM 350W PSU (Windows 10 Core)

*Haswell Tower* - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3vw6vW (Windows 10 Home)

*ITX Box* - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/r36s6R (Windows 10 Education)

Dell Dimension XPS B800 - Pentium 3 800Mhz, RDRAM

In progress projects:

*Skylake Tower* - Pentium G4400, Asus H110

*Trash Can* - AMD A4-6300

*GPU Test Bench*

*Pfsense router* - Pentium G3220, Asrock H97m Pro A4, 4GB DDR3

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9 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

I forget the exact model, but its a early 90's Compaq Presario. According to some basic maths, its circa 1993; which places it at ~23 years old.

Rocking a Pentium 1 @ 200Mhz, 48MiB of PC66 RAM, 3.5" floppy, CDROM burner, a ZIP drive, and the original 6GB Quantum 5.25" IDE HDD. Recently I added in a 120GB 2.5" SSD and reinstalled Windows 98 SE on that, for memes and speed (the PC can only see the SSD as 8GB, lmfao).

 

I also have a circa 2001 laptop, not sure on specs; mainly because Windows XP isn't activated and I haven't been able to get it to reinstall.

 

Lastly, I have a circa 2000 Compaq Presario of some kind. 

This desktop rocks a Pentium 4 @ 1.7Ghz, 1GiB of (possibly) DDR(2) RAM. 3.5" floppy, CDROM burner, DVD burner, Nvidia GeForce 256 (or Geforce Mx400, I forget which card I have in it), a 35GB 3.5" IDE HDD, and a 70GB 2.5" IDE HDD. I plan on putting a 120GB SSD in there, for some extra memes and speed; might also looks at getting a newer AGP card as well (but rip Steam XP support).

Dont overdo your PCI lanes or you will actually slow those machines down, they have so few lanes, and every additional slot takes from that pool :)

Workstation Laptop: Dell Precision 7540, Xeon E-2276M, 32gb DDR4, Quadro T2000 GPU, 4k display

Wifes Rig: ASRock B550m Riptide, Ryzen 5 5600X, Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6700 XT, 16gb (2x8) 3600mhz V-Color Skywalker RAM, ARESGAME AGS 850w PSU, 1tb WD Black SN750, 500gb Crucial m.2, DIYPC MA01-G case

My Rig: ASRock B450m Pro4, Ryzen 5 3600, ARESGAME River 5 CPU cooler, EVGA RTX 2060 KO, 16gb (2x8) 3600mhz TeamGroup T-Force RAM, ARESGAME AGV750w PSU, 1tb WD Black SN750 NVMe Win 10 boot drive, 3tb Hitachi 7200 RPM HDD, Fractal Design Focus G Mini custom painted.  

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 5 3600,ASRock B450M Pro4 (3dmark.com)

Daughter 1 Rig: ASrock B450 Pro4, Ryzen 7 1700 @ 4.2ghz all core 1.4vCore, AMD R9 Fury X w/ Swiftech KOMODO waterblock, Custom Loop 2x240mm + 1x120mm radiators in push/pull 16gb (2x8) Patriot Viper CL14 2666mhz RAM, Corsair HX850 PSU, 250gb Samsun 960 EVO NVMe Win 10 boot drive, 500gb Samsung 840 EVO SSD, 512GB TeamGroup MP30 M.2 SATA III SSD, SuperTalent 512gb SATA III SSD, CoolerMaster HAF XM Case. 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/37004594?

Daughter 2 Rig: ASUS B350-PRIME ATX, Ryzen 7 1700, Sapphire Nitro+ R9 Fury Tri-X, 16gb (2x8) 3200mhz V-Color Skywalker, ANTEC Earthwatts 750w PSU, MasterLiquid Lite 120 AIO cooler in Push/Pull config as rear exhaust, 250gb Samsung 850 Evo SSD, Patriot Burst 240gb SSD, Cougar MX330-X Case

 

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1 minute ago, Tristerin said:

Dont overdo your PCI lanes or you will actually slow those machines down, they have so few lanes, and every additional slot takes from that pool :)

The Pentium 1 PC has PCI-X (I think that's what it is?) which came with a big honker of a riser card that has 2 ISA and 2 PCI; preinstalled on the riser was an ISA modem card and an ISA sound card, with a PCI graphics accelerator. I ran the SSD through a IDE to SATA converter and set it as the master drive on the IDE cable; no PCI lanes required.

 

I'll probably do the same thing on the Pentium 4 machine, thought I may have to ditch one of the currently installed IDE drives to free up a connector. And that only has an AGP card and a PCI ethernet NIC in it; used to have a PCI sound card but I moved that to my Core 2 Duo PC because that board's on-board audio doesn't have XP drivers.

Primary PC: - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8G3tXv (Windows 10 Home)

HTPC: - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KdBb4n (Windows 10 Home)
Server: Dell Precision T7500 - Dual Xeon X5660's, 44GB ECC DDR3, Dell Nvidia GTX 645 (Windows Server 2019 Standard)      

*SLI Rig* - i7-920, MSI-X58 Platinum SLI, 12GB DDR3, Dual EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 in SLI - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GHw6vW (Windows 7 Pro)

HP DC7900 - Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB DDR2, Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT (Windows Vista)

Compaq Presario 5000 - Pentium 4 1.7Ghz, 1.7GB SDR, PowerColor Radeon 9600 Pro (Windows XP x86 Pro)
Compaq Presario 8772 - Pentium MMX 200Mhz, 48MB PC66, 6GB Quantum HDD, "8GB" HP SATA SSD adapted to IDE (Windows 98 SE)

Asus M32AD - Intel i3-4170, 8GB DDR3, 250GB Seagate 2.5" HDD (converting to SSD soon), EVGA GeForce GTS 250, OEM 350W PSU (Windows 10 Core)

*Haswell Tower* - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3vw6vW (Windows 10 Home)

*ITX Box* - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/r36s6R (Windows 10 Education)

Dell Dimension XPS B800 - Pentium 3 800Mhz, RDRAM

In progress projects:

*Skylake Tower* - Pentium G4400, Asus H110

*Trash Can* - AMD A4-6300

*GPU Test Bench*

*Pfsense router* - Pentium G3220, Asrock H97m Pro A4, 4GB DDR3

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Oldest working? Commodore VIC-20. Oldest that's still relevant and sees some actual use? Mac Pro 1,1 (2006). Its ancient Xeons aren't amazing, but at least the Mac looks good enough to justify its continue presence (the specs also look delightful on paper, two CPUs and eight sticks of RAM scratch a particular itch, even if the actual hardware is getting slow).

 

I have my cabinets literally filled with various random old computers, oldest of them currently being a Slot 1 system, but I can hardly claim I use them much. My latest PC adventure was trying to get Guild Wars to run on a Athlon XP 2800+ (WinXP), with no luck so far. I don't have space to keep the relics ready to use, so they only see, one at a time, a couple of days of use every few months. Less than I'd like, but what can you do.

 

I also have mechanical typewriters and slide rules around. I'm casually drawn to anything old that's still technically usable.

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The old Athlon X2 I have laying around? xD 

Primary Laptop (Gearsy MK4): Ryzen 9 5900HX, Radeon RX 6800M, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 24 GB DDR4 2400 Mhz, 512 GB SSD+1TB SSD, 15.6 in 300 Hz IPS display

2021 Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition

 

Secondary Laptop (Uni MK2): Ryzen 7 5800HS, Nvidia GTX 1650, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 16 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz, 512 GB SSD 

2021 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 

 

Meme Machine (Uni MK1): Shintel Core i5 7200U, Nvidia GT 940MX, 24 GB DDR4 2133 Mhz, 256 GB SSD+500GB HDD, 15.6 in TN Display 

2016 Acer Aspire E5 575 

 

Retired Laptop (Gearsy MK2): Ryzen 5 2500U, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 12 GB 2400 Mhz DDR4, 256 GB NVME SSD, 15.6" 1080p IPS Touchscreen 

2017 HP Envy X360 15z (Ryzen)

 

PC (Gearsy): A6 3650, HD 6530D , 8 GB 1600 Mhz Kingston DDR3, Some Random Mobo Lol, EVGA 450W BT PSU, Stock Cooler, 128 GB Kingston SSD, 1 TB WD Blue 7200 RPM

HP P7 1234 (Yes It's Actually Called That)  RIP 

 

Also im happy to answer any Ryzen Mobile questions if anyone is interested! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I have a 1360x768 TV from 2005 or 2004 that's still working great. I couch game on it. ^_^

Ryzen 1600x @4GHz

Asus GTX 1070 8GB @1900MHz

16 GB HyperX DDR4 @3000MHz

Asus Prime X370 Pro

Samsung 860 EVO 500GB

Noctua NH-U14S

Seasonic M12II 620W

+ four different mechanical drives.

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