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a samsung hdd from 2004 still runs on daily basis ,the ram from the same system ,a 9400gt oced from the same system too 

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My grandma's computer on which my grandpa now plays freecell. It's a good ol' beige computer, all I know about it, IDE HDD connectors too. Has to be 10 years old.

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Surprisingly my Compaq Deskpro 4000. Things older than I am, and is still kicking. 

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i wish, the only thing i have that was from the original build of my computer is the cpu, ssd, and case.

i'm not so lucky to have a part that doesn't fall on its face under its own weight

 

although i do have my old AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 cpu that probably still works, if i were to build the system that is...

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HD 5770, still using it to power 3 monitors for work.

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Cpu's hardly die . 

They need to be basically physically damaged to die. 

I have been in IT as a Intel Platinum provider for over 10 years and i maybe have RMA'd like 2 cpu's the entire time and those were probably broken from the start aka DOA. 

 

I have CPU's in a box like 100's of them P3 - P4 - P4 Dual - Core 2's and C2Quads - all the way basically up to current cpu's for benching and i have never killed one and i have seriously put some volts to them too. 

*knock on wood*

Ive degraded cpu's but they usually refuse to fully die and will still work at stock clocks lol. 

 

CPU's Are reliable as balls 

 

But Mobos on the other hand lol those die like mayflies. 

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My consoles all still work, including the Atari 2600.

And my Sony vaio pc from 2000 still ran perfectly fine last time I checked, although I haven't used it in about a year.

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Sega Genesis as new as the day it was bought, and as for an actual computer... I think the oldest living PC part I have is an original pentium from like the late, late 90's.  

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A 14 year old HDD from a old Compaq, tested it out about a week ago.

 

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Random IDE 40 gig hard drive from an old PC from 2001. I should actually probably boot that up at some point and make sure it's still fine.

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My dads freaking piece of crap rig from 2004ish. Dell Dimension something or other. Has been through maybe 3-4 dead hard drives, and two GTX 210s and a Radeon 9200, my dad refuses to upgrade.

Dad bought some stupidly long warranty on it, pretty sure mobo has been replaced at least once due to USB ports shorting the entire system. I swear to god one day I'm going to build him some i3 office PC and the take that stupid dell and smash it with a bat or a hammer.

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I have an old 600W Fortron Source PSU which is 7 years old and still heading up my main system which is overclocked through the roof. When my power surges, that PC is still the only thing that doesn't turn off. Was playing Titanfall during a storm while streaming once, and my power blinked out twice for like almost a full second and the PSU didn't give a single shit.

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I had an old Sharp laptop from 2002 running XP. had one of the old mobile Athlons. That thing is almost 13 years old and it will just not die. Every now and then it would pretend to die but give it about a week powered off and it would jump right back up again.

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My gameboy colour...man I abused that things in ways which should be illegal and it just keeps on chugging...I'd say the same for my gameboy but my one family member decided it'd be a great idea to just chuck it in the garbage bin when it worked fine and just becuase it used 4 batteriers instead of 2.

 

Oh damn, who throws away such an awesome piece of technology! Even if it didn't work it's worth keeping!

OT: Probably this old HP laptop from 2002 which still runs smoothly (on linux). Only one thing is sort of broken about it: The CD drive randomly decides it wants to open and just pops out. That's happening since I dropped it down the stairs.

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OT: Probably this old HP laptop from 2002 which still runs smoothly (on linux). Only one thing is sort of broken about it: The CD drive randomly decides it wants to open and just pops out. That's happening since I dropped it down the stairs.

 

I can imagine that being funny for about a day... then it gets annoying...

My GTX 570, i dropped water on it like 6 times...

Still going to this day...

The first time i did it was a week after getting it. (on release) and i was so scared, but hes a tough little git.

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none of the hardware i own is even close to old. although i do have a HD 4870 that still works

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Dell Dimension 2400s. All of them. I still have 2 running perfectly. I don't know if it's possible to kill them :P

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my old msi gtx 680 lightning water cooled 1.45v 1532mhz.

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Oh damn, who throws away such an awesome piece of technology! Even if it didn't work it's worth keeping!

OT: Probably this old HP laptop from 2002 which still runs smoothly (on linux). Only one thing is sort of broken about it: The CD drive randomly decides it wants to open and just pops out. That's happening since I dropped it down the stairs.

The blaim has been shuffled around. And it did work.

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I can imagine that being funny for about a day... then it gets annoying...

My GTX 570, i dropped water on it like 6 times...

Still going to this day...

The first time i did it was a week after getting it. (on release) and i was so scared, but hes a tough little git.

 

Haha yeah, it getsa annoying. Now I just leave it open ;P

 

How the hell do you drop water on your graphics card though?

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My mouse.  I've had this thing for years and years, and I've slammed it against desks, spilled things on it, and spammed the buttons with the force of a thousand suns, but it just refuses to die.

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Which one? I have a 380D (Pentium mmx 133mhz) still kicking :D

560. I think also Pentium something with like 10GB hard drive. Haven't really opened it up yet.

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Haha yeah, it getsa annoying. Now I just leave it open ;P

 

How the hell do you drop water on your graphics card though?

 

>PC on the floor next to desk,

>drink on desk

>Counterstrike

>lotts of mouse movement

>drink goes flying

>through top grill

>splashes off heatsink

>all over gpu

 

Dont even care, this thing is still a beast. 

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