What's the Oldest Hardware in Your System right now?

[SkilledRebuilds]

DualCore @ 2.4Ghz+ (Have used Pent4+HT before, it's not enough)

2GB Ram + 128GB SataII SSD

512MB 2600XT (GPU assisted Decoding for 720p YT or my own 1080p movies)

 

Had to rely on such a system a few times (Wouldn't want anything less)

[burnttoastnice]

I used to use a northwood Celeron 2.4GHz back in the day.  Got it to run Windows 7, after managing to get the CPU to render me useless 8 bit graphics. Slow as hell and cpu usage was pinned to 100%.

 

Lowest I'd go is probably a core 2 duo, 4GB RAM, and a geforce 210 for minimum video playback support (many core 2 duo mobos don't have gfx drivers for win10 )

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

I'm currently on FX-8350 and a Quadro 580 FX. 

It's weaker han 8800 GTX. Just for comparison.

[cleb]

8 hours ago, Oskar94a said:

I would finnish my current lga 775 build, modded Xeon E5450, 4GB DDR3 and a gtx 560ti 

My build is running the same CPU! I did it just recently. Except its running ddr2 8gb and a gtx 660

[cleb]

5 hours ago, Edgar R. Zakarian said:

I'm currently on FX-8350 and a Quadro 580 FX. 

It's weaker han 8800 GTX. Just for comparison.

That's a prime example of GPU bottle necking the CPU ?

[TheRandomness]

Dual 1366 with a HD 3870 x2

[flibberdipper]

I STILL use a Cyrix 6x86 at like 250MHz. I'd like to get a Pentium MMX bux they are pricey.

[Windows7ge]

I don't recall the exact name of the CPU but it was an old AMD 1 core around 1.2GHz,  2GB DDR2, integrated graphics, generic 5400RPM HDD. Allow for general web browsing and youtube until I got my main rig back online. Actually that exact computer is still working as my parents business computer. Still turns on, operates well with Windows XP 32-bit. I'd use if I had nothing else and didn't have the funds to immediately repair my main computer.

[CtrlAltELITE]

My grandparents are currently using my gaming rig from 2006 that has been transplanted into there old HP case from ~2002. The only thing that has been changed in it is the GPU in 2008, PSU in 2010 and HDD in 2014.  An AM2 AMD Athlon X2 overclocked to 3.1GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, ATI 4850 (there was 2 but 1 died). Ive been tempted to upgrade the GPU to some low end £20 unit simply because I am using bootlegged sketchy drivers to make it Win10 compatible.

 

Hell my little brother still plays WoW on it.

[Brickerberry]

Just check out my main system specs and you know the answer: Intel core i5 2520m with intel 3000 HD graphics 

[Tom is a Door]

Oldest hardware you would use

ur mum 

Badumdush

[NeXTSalt]

Well my current main rig died and waiting on that repairs. So I am using some rather still newish fx 6300 980 ti build but in the terms of old stuff:

 

-My old Pentium 4 1 core 2 thread at 3.0GHz

-Apple IIC (Gots tons of old games on it)

-Intel Core Duo PC I have lying around

-AMD Athlon II X3 435 with 750ti and 2GB DDR2 800Mhz

-NeXT Cube with a Motorola 68040 at 33Mhz, 24MB of RAM with a 644MB HDD, I would probably learn some coding on it since I have a book on it. (I boot it once a week and place chess on it for fun lol)

-Super Crap Alienware M14xR2 with a i5-3210m, 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz and a GT 650m that I abused the living crap out of

 

^If all fails I would play with sticks and rocks

 

[Coaxialgamer]

Anything from the core 2 era onwards would get the job done until i fix my rig.  I have a single core laptop,  but one core is just too little nowadays 

[cantalOPe]

As long as it can run club penguin I'll be good

[FastPentium]

Pentium 4 540J 3.2Ghz

Intel D865GSA Motherboard

Kingston KVR 1Gb DDR1 400 RAM

Sapphire Radeon 9550 128mb

200gb HDD

Windows Vista 32bits

 

Using this PC right now, and it works just perfect!

 

[comicsansms]

On 6/10/2016 at 3:00 AM, tmcclelland455 said:

I STILL use a Cyrix 6x86 at like 250MHz. I'd like to get a Pentium MMX bux they are pricey.

Do you use it as a DOS Box? I too have a Cyrix 6x86, but mine is at 133MHz and it is IBM branded, it and its motherboard (Gigabyte GA-586S2) is currently in my pile of stuff that I don't have a plan for ATM but it still works, I could possibly deck it out with 512MB of SD RAM since it has 2 SD Ram slots which would be funny.

[WkdPaul]

I wouldn't go past my Core2Duo Dell with 2GB of RAM, with an SSD it's very usable, with a regular HDD it's a pain in the ...

[Guest]

I still have some 386-486 games somewhere... So a (fast) 386/486 would have been the bare minimum. However, I'd like to have a pc which could run some of my series/movies. Not sure what the bare minimum is there.

 

@ topic starter, I think my current pc is something like your bare minimum requirements... (but AMD)

[flibberdipper]

7 hours ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

Do you use it as a DOS Box? I too have a Cyrix 6x86, but mine is at 133MHz and it is IBM branded, it and its motherboard (Gigabyte GA-586S2) is currently in my pile of stuff that I don't have a plan for ATM but it still works, I could possibly deck it out with 512MB of SD RAM since it has 2 SD Ram slots which would be funny.

Not yet, as I don't have any programs that need DOS ATM.

[hex4]

Ehhh hmmm.

Core 2 Duo and a Radeon 4890.

[comicsansms]

1 hour ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Not yet, as I don't have any programs that need DOS ATM.

I want to see what you do with your since I have no idea what I am going to do with mine.

[RahulR]

I dealt with a Pentium 4 630 with 945G graphics and 2GBs of DDR2 ram up until about October of 2015 and it became a nightmare to use, pretty much the lowest I would go.

[Noyu]

19 hours ago, Tom is a Door said:

Oldest hardware you would use

ur mum 

Badumdush

damn you beat me to it.

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

I want to see what you do with your since I have no idea what I am going to do with mine.

Like I said, I use it for MP3s and MIDIs.

[Unimportant]

Pentium D or any athlon X2 with enough RAM.

I don't need a lot of performance but the fact that a single core totally locks up when something is hogging the CPU drives me insane. A dual core, even a pentium, allows you to still do stuff while the other process is eating the other core which is something i cannot do without anymore.

 

And obviously RAM because once swapping starts ... meh...