What's the oldest machine people have as their main rig?

[pookeyhead]

As the title suggests, I'm just wondering what is the oldest machine out there on these forums that is still the main machine in the house?  I ask because I'm still rocking a Sandybridge extreme 3960X on a ROG Rampage IV Extreme MoBo.  I slapped in a GTX980 around 5 years ago, but not done anything since.  It's almost 11 years old now and still my main rig.  As you gathered already, I don't play what you would call AAA titles...   mainly Elite Dangerous, so I still get 60fps or more.  I was going build a new machine this year, but seeing as I'd need to sell a kidney to get a GPU, I'm stuck with it for a little longer. I was going to slap a 1080 in it to stretch it a little further, but even THOSE are $400 on Ebay, so here I am... 

I gotta say though.  When I built this, I had the usual "What do you need that for??  It's just e-peen" comments, but sure...  11 years later it's still rocking.  Always build crazy fast machines...  they have the legs to last.

What you rocking still?  Anyone using anything older?

[Sauron]

2 minutes ago, pookeyhead said:

It's almost 11 years old

big doubt considering the 3960x came out in late 2011.

 

I have a 2600 from may 2011, I used it as my main machine up until last summer. My parents use a 2009 xeon.

[light-v]

Not quite as old as yours but definitely outdated. My main rig is rocking an i5 4670K and a GTX 1070 some games. I have a 1440p 144Hz monitor and I can still max the framerate of my monitor on many games (not the graphics settings though )

[narrdarr]

My mom is using my Trinity apu build for her daily system.

[refinedskillz]

I've never really used a "new machine". From about 2010 to 2016 I used a Phenom CPU from 2005? (not too sure on the model or date) Im pretty sure it was quad core and black edition tho. I then upgraded to an FX-8350 (I know, kill me) which is a 2011 CPU. And lastly in 2020 I bought a ryzen 5 1600 (2017 chip).

[Latvian Video]

I recently built it, but the parts are a little old, I have a Athlon x4 860k OCd to 3.9ghz, Zotac gtx 970 reference, Asus A68HM-K, a case from a HP Compaq dc7100 CMT (That is def the oldest part in my system), A 240gb BX500 ssd, a 500gb hdd from my laptop (It's from 2013).

I mostly use it for school and gaming, I'm really bottlenecked by the cpu, I get 30-50fps in gta 5 online, around 60fps in csgo, should be higher tho, games like rocket league are fine, I have it capped at 80fps, because if I leave it uncapped, my gpu will turn into a vaccum

[Latvian Video]

1 minute ago, refinedskillz said:

I've never really used a "new machine". From about 2010 to 2016 I used a Phenom CPU from 2005? (not too sure on the model or date) Im pretty sure it was quad core and black edition tho. I then upgraded to an FX-8350 (I know, kill me) which is a 2011 CPU. And lastly in 2020 I bought a ryzen 5 1600 (2017 chip).

Nice, I will upgrade to a Ryzen 3 1200 in the summer, as rn I have no money, and I plan to work in the summer

[pookeyhead]

10 minutes ago, Sauron said:

big doubt considering the 3960x came out in late 2011.

 

I have a 2600 from may 2011, I used it as my main machine up until last summer. My parents use a 2009 xeon.

Apologies...  I thought it was 2010.  Ok.. heading for 10 years old then.  

A xeon is a strange choice...  what did they buy it for, and what do they still do with it?

[refinedskillz]

Just now, Latvian Video said:

Nice, I will upgrade to a Ryzen 3 1200 in the summer, as rn I have no money, and I plan to work in the summer

Go for a Ryzen 5! I guarantee it will suffice better long term. I got mine for £90 with a cooler.

[Kanna]

My brother got a really old main rig with like amd phenom or smthn with a 970 4G with a case screaming 2009

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, pookeyhead said:

A xeon is a strange choice...  what did they buy it for, and what do they still do with it?

I got it used from a friend of mine and gave it to them when I stopped using it

[pookeyhead]

10 minutes ago, light-v said:

Not quite as old as yours but definitely outdated. My main rig is rocking an i5 4670K and a GTX 1070 some games. I have a 1440p 144Hz monitor and I can still max the framerate of my monitor on many games (not the graphics settings though )

Forgot to say...  I game at 2560x1600.   I'm gonna miss 16:10 monitors when I build a new machine. Currently using a Eizo Coloredge 303W.  Cost £2300 new.  Although built for gaming, I'm also a photographer, so needed a monitor with a hardware 10 or 12 bit LUT that I could calibrate.  Choices weren't so great back then.  It was either Eizo, or NEC...  that was it.

[Letgomyleghoe]

my mom was using a phenom 9550 ~2008 era processor and 8gb of ddr2 ram until mid december when the motherboard died.

[Latvian Video]

2 minutes ago, refinedskillz said:

Go for a Ryzen 5! I guarantee it will suffice better long term. I got mine for £90 with a cooler.

I already have the cpu, our family has a sort-of hand-me-down system, My brother had the ryzen 3 1200 before he upgraded to a ryzen 5 3600x, in the summer I will buy a mobo, ram, case, chair, maybe a table and monitors, also if I will have enough money, I will buy a better cpu

[refinedskillz]

Just now, Latvian Video said:

I already have the cpu, our family has a sort-of hand-me-down system, My brother had the ryzen 3 1200 before he upgraded to a ryzen 5 3600x, in the summer I will buy a mobo, ram, case, chair, maybe a table and monitors, also if I will have enough money, I will buy a better cpu

Cool, nice going.

[pookeyhead]

My wife is still using the Nehalem rig that this Sandybridge replaced LOL.

[AnirbanG007]

30 minutes ago, pookeyhead said:

As the title suggests, I'm just wondering what is the oldest machine out there on these forums that is still the main machine in the house?  I ask because I'm still rocking a Sandybridge extreme 3960X on a ROG Rampage IV Extreme MoBo.  I slapped in a GTX980 around 5 years ago, but not done anything since.  It's almost 11 years old now and still my main rig.  As you gathered already, I don't play what you would call AAA titles...   mainly Elite Dangerous, so I still get 60fps or more.  I was going build a new machine this year, but seeing as I'd need to sell a kidney to get a GPU, I'm stuck with it for a little longer. I was going to slap a 1080 in it to stretch it a little further, but even THOSE are $400 on Ebay, so here I am... 

I gotta say though.  When I built this, I had the usual "What do you need that for??  It's just e-peen" comments, but sure...  11 years later it's still rocking.  Always build crazy fast machines...  they have the legs to last.

What you rocking still?  Anyone using anything older?

My primary machine, is my HP laptop bought in 2017 with an i5 6200u processor, I recently upgraded the RAM to 16 gigs, and the HDD to an SSD. I play old COD games like Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 3, World at War etc... and a few F1 racing games occasionally. Mainly I study, use Word, and sometimes I edit videos for my YT channel. I plan on continuing to use it for many years for my IT work which I'll soon probably get into.

 

The old home I lived in had an i3 3220 with 4 gigs of RAM, that served me for many years as a school student, and it's dead now. My dad uses the old HDD in his second hand c2d machine for light browsing and internet banking.

[Master Disaster]

Its not my main rig (that's listed in my sig) however I am rocking a 5th Gen Core I5 Intel NUC as my lab server. Quite honestly it's WAAAAY underpowered for the job but I like it because its really low power and I can leave it running 24/7 without it drinking my electricity for breakfast.

[Biomecanoid]

31 minutes ago, pookeyhead said:

As the title suggests, I'm just wondering what is the oldest machine out there on these forums that is still the main machine in the house?  I ask because I'm still rocking a Sandybridge extreme 3960X on a ROG Rampage IV Extreme MoBo.  I slapped in a GTX980 around 5 years ago, but not done anything since.  It's almost 11 years old now and still my main rig.  As you gathered already, I don't play what you would call AAA titles...   mainly Elite Dangerous, so I still get 60fps or more.  I was going build a new machine this year, but seeing as I'd need to sell a kidney to get a GPU, I'm stuck with it for a little longer. I was going to slap a 1080 in it to stretch it a little further, but even THOSE are $400 on Ebay, so here I am... 

I gotta say though.  When I built this, I had the usual "What do you need that for??  It's just e-peen" comments, but sure...  11 years later it's still rocking.  Always build crazy fast machines...  they have the legs to last.

What you rocking still?  Anyone using anything older?

 

HP Z400 from 2009 and it can play Metro Exodus in Triple Screen 5040x1050 resolution --- 48:10 aspect ratio ---  with 60+ fps

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pookeyhead]

If servers count...  Mine is using a Celeron E3200   It's literally just a back up server though, and the RAID card does the heavy lifting.

[ixi_your_face]

Up until last month; the 1366 masterrace was (and is) going strong for me. Got myself one of them fancy pants new Ryzens now tho.

[Master Disaster]

1 minute ago, pookeyhead said:

If servers count...  Mine is using a Celeron E3200   It's literally just a back up server though, and the RAID card does the heavy lifting.

Ooof, those chips are REALLY terrible. Good job you don't rely on it for anything to taxing

[pookeyhead]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Ooof, those chips are REALLY terrible. Good job you don't rely on it for anything to taxing

LOL.  Oh yes... it takes 5 seconds to open a window.  I've even under volted and under-clocked it to save power.  You can't USE it for anything, but the hardware LSI RAID card still saturates the ethernet when backing up to it, so....  (shrug).  Crap as it is, it IS reliable.

[Master Disaster]

Just now, pookeyhead said:

LOL.  Oh yes... it takes 5 seconds to open a window.  I've even under volted and under-clocked it to save power.  You can't USE it for anything, but the hardware LSI RAID card still saturates the ethernet when backing up to it, so....  (shrug).  Crap as it is, it IS reliable.

Which is the most important thing for a mission critical server.

[pookeyhead]

Just now, Master Disaster said:

Which is the most important thing for a mission critical server.

Indeed. It is literally just a back up server for the home machines.. it does it well, so I shall continue to let it live