What PC parts do you consider obsolete?

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Just now, Stardar1 said:

(I changed my mind)

 

I've not found them cheaper anywhere

Have you not looked anywhere?  EBay / Craigslist is the way to go.

[stealth80]

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[79wjd]

4 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Anything pre-2010 that's not an Opteron or Xeon when it comes to CPUs, pre-7xxx and 7xx GPUs, Any HDD really under 7200rpms, and DDR2 and older.

My 5900rpm WD Red says otherwise. 

[Tmt97]

2 minutes ago, steezemageeze said:

I think you meant 2015 

/s

Nah, I was referring to my own laptop, 5 years old, broken keys, and has a half dead battery. Pretty obsolete.

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I agree pretty much any CPU older than sandy, anything with less than 4 GB of RAM, and anything not using an SSD for a boot drive.

[mao91]

17 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

To me, anything under a core2duo or an HD6450 is pretty much obsolete.

 

I know these are kinda vague specs, but to be honest, I think for general web surfing, a core2duo is fine. But a pentium dual core or worse is just too slow.

 

And for things that need a basic videocard, like my 3D printer host PC, an HD6450 is pretty much a perfect card for it, just fast enough for what I need. Obviously there are newer parts that might actually be slower, but I think the raw performance of the core2duo and HD6450 is pretty much a comparison to compare other parts to.

 

What do you consider too obsolete to be worth using?

I have a Core 2 Duo that I plan to use for a file server at some point.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I agree pretty much any CPU older than sandy, anything with less than 4 GB of RAM, and anything not using an SSD for a boot drive.

My core2duo testbench boots Windows 7 64 bit in like 15 seconds (seriously, all it needed was an SSD) and it is plenty fast for what I use it for

[multifrag]

If to take into account all pc parts. The dvd burner . Gpu anything on the low end. Doesn't really matter the age. 930 even now is obsolete, while 690 is still rocking. It always depends on the price. I will most likely take the working parts for free. Just for extra parts or testing. I'm working on xeons from 2011 and price to performance there is nothing that can compete with it... So it always a race to efficiency 

[vanished]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

My core2duo testbench boots Windows 7 64 bit in like 15 seconds (seriously, all it needed was an SSD) and it is plenty fast for what I use it for

All I know is of the variety of systems I've used, the one that was good enough but just barely was a sandy bridge i3, 4 GB of RAM, and a HDD (which made it unusable towards the end).

[mao91]

1 minute ago, multifrag said:

If to take into account all pc parts. The dvd burner . Gpu anything on the low end. Doesn't really matter the age. 930 even now is obsolete, while 690 is still rocking. It always depends on the price. I will most likely take the working parts for free. Just for extra parts or testing. I'm working on xeons from 2011 and price to performance there is nothing that can compete with it... So it always a race to efficiency 

DVD burners are still handy. I burn backups of CDs somewhat regularly and my college still sells event DVDs.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

All I know is of the variety of systems I've used, the one that was good enough but just barely was a sandy bridge i3, 4 GB of RAM, and a HDD (which made it unusable towards the end).

I made 450 bucks the other day selling a system with a sandy i3, 8GB of RAM, a laptop 7200RPM 500GB HDD, and a 270x, with monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers. Guy seemed exceptionally pleased with its gaming performance compared to a similarly priced machine he bought at worst buy

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, B.Toast said:

DVD burners are still handy. I burn backups of CDs somewhat regularly and my college still sells event DVDs.

Yesterday I used the disk drive I put in my testbench to.. get this... install windows... I somehow found a genuine windows 7 professional disk before I found my damn flash drive...

[multifrag]

1 minute ago, B.Toast said:

DVD burners are still handy. I burn backups of CDs somewhat regularly and my college still sells event DVDs.

No no no. That is why we have a laptops for  . Latop is for once in 3 years dvd burner.

[nicolaj82]

Optical drives.

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2 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I made 450 bucks the other day selling a system with a sandy i3, 8GB of RAM, a laptop 7200RPM 500GB HDD, and a 270x, with monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers. Guy seemed exceptionally pleased with its gaming performance compared to a similarly priced machine he bought at worst buy

well good for him.  I'm not saying no one's allowed to use anything older than that - it's just my experience

[mao91]

4 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Yesterday I used the disk drive I put in my testbench to.. get this... install windows... I somehow found a genuine windows 7 professional disk before I found my damn flash drive...

 

Been there, done that.

 

4 minutes ago, multifrag said:

No no no. That is why we have a laptops for :D. Latop is for once in 3 years dvd burner.

I use an external USB one for my needs (mostly because I have it and am ironically cheap enough [despite my X99 rig] that I don't want to spend $20 on an internal one).

 

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With the exception of certain military and/or industrial applications that still rely on them, I'd say 3.5" and 5.5" floppy drives/disks, and cartridge-based PCs are now obsolete.

[Nup]

25 minutes ago, Arty said:

Granny PC = Chromebook or Chromebox.

Good point, but its nice to have more, for gand kids or whatnot, they're still decent parts, not worth replacing with a different package imo.  

[406House]

Optical Drives

[Meawa]

1 hour ago, Droidbot said:

Pentium anything - excluding the newer i-series parts. 

 

 

what about the unlocked ones

[steezemageeze]

1 hour ago, Tmt97 said:

Nah, I was referring to my own laptop, 5 years old, broken keys, and has a half dead battery. Pretty obsolete.

I was just being facetious lol.

[Biggerboot]

4-6 years old is typically what I consider out of date, and that's regardless of it being high-end or low end.

 

So for a current example: anything that runs on DDR2, pre SATA 3 hard drives, pre-directx11 graphics cards, etc.

[Droidbot]

38 minutes ago, Meawa said:

what about the unlocked ones

read 'excluding the new i-series parts' - such as the ones based on Haswell and Skylake 

[Bhav]

5 hours ago, Arty said:

pretty much anything older than sandybridge 

 for me in terms of computer parts.

 

 

 

Hard drives that aren't in raid. 

Or hard drives used for windows.

 

 

I7 980 is older than sandy bridge but still maxes out all games and doesn't botteneck SLI or Xfire.

[79wjd]

4 minutes ago, Bhav said:

I7 980 is older than sandy bridge but still maxes out all games and doesn't botteneck SLI or Xfire.

it most definitely can in some games. 

[PlayStation 2]

I dunno about you but I can still find day-to-day use out of a Toshiba with an AMD Turion X2 if I felt like it.

Nothing is really outdated for me until it can't do MS Word, Spotify, and LTT at the same time.