Old PC's

[BritishTechGuy]

We want to know about all of your old computers that are still going strong, custom or pre-fabricated, any will do.

[BritishTechGuy]

Dell Inspiron 530 Anyone???

[Protex]

5 minutes ago, BritishTechGuy said:

We want to know about all of your old computers that are still going strong, custom or pre-fabricated, any will do.

Dell dimension 5150. Windows XP. Pentium D. Older than me. Personal rig update 2016.

[Mitko_DSV]

Old PCs I have. Well, let's list them:

1. eMachines eTower 466i (specs in sig) - old as me (from 1999) - the first PC I've used. Works to this day no matter if the room temp is 20C or -6C.

2. The PC in the living room is from 2004/2005. Still working with XP.

3. My secondary PC (specs in sig) - built it in June 2015 from some old PCs from 2004/2005. It's enough for what I use it for.

4. My dad's PC - HP xw6200 workstation from 2006 with 2 x Intel Xeon 3GHz with HT, 4GB DDR2 ECC RAM, nVidia GeForce 9500GT 1GB and Seagate 500GB HDD. It's good 'cause GTA V runs on it.

5. Clevo 2700C Notebook from 2001 - bought it for 10lv. ($5-6) a few weeks ago. Works great after changing the CMOS battery.

And a few more but I don't have time to list them all.

[Space Reptile]

36 minutes ago, Protex said:

Dell dimension 5150. Windows XP. Pentium D.

 the Pentium D in that thing is SO BAD , it bottlenecks a GT530 in furmark

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Older than me

its 10 years old 

 

 

[ApolloX75]

I've had my old Athlon XP 2500+ and A7N-8X running on the test bench for the last couple weeks. Forgot how much of an absolute pain in the ass working with PATA drives was.

I have also been off and on rebuilding my Athlon 64 X2 (S939) with it's A8R32-MVP board but I'm missing a working GPU at the moment. Probably find two HD 2900 XTs for cheap and run 'em in crossfire for the lulz.

 

[grimreeper132]

right then where shall I start the list, 

1) there's The Toaster, mark 1

Which rocks a E6600, with 6GB of DDR2 non-ECC ram, onboard graphics and in using a HP motherboard, with two 1TB hard drives set up in RAID 1 and a new (compared to the system, prob about 5 month old now) knigston 30GB SSD, which is set up as my NAS. This is not as much as a beast as it once was, due to the graphics card, being removed, but it is still very good for at what I use it for, a NAS, with max CPU usage being 50%.

2) The Portable Slice of Bread
This is a Acer Aspire One D250-0DQk, which although may not be as old as some other computers on this list, is certainly shit enough to qualify to on this list with it's hyperthreaded single core, rated at 1.6GHz, with 2GB of DDR2 laptop RAM this laptop struggles to do anything and everything, with it failing to even run some OS's properly or more than 2 tabs of chrome, this thing is terrible compared to almost everything that will appear on this list (yes I know there will be some PCs on here that are shitter)

3) The Cheese Toastie
This was the first PC I ever owned, despite some of the other PC's on this list being older, it has a E6500, with hyper threading, and 3GB of DDR3 RAM (the only PC here with DDR3 RAM) this PC works perfectly, but currently has no HDD installed and so is currently not being used but it is still a PC I am planning to use it at some point when I get a cheap HDD for it.

 

4) there's The Toaster, mark 2
This is a very similar PC to the Toaster Mark 1 with the same CPU, 4GB of DDR2 non-SCC RAM, but with a very old graphics card which is used as a display adapter, as there is no onboard graphics on the PC, and with two 320GB in RAID 1 of HDD RAM, this is working perfectly but I will need work out what I'm doing with it.

5) The Slice of Bread
This is has a AMD tri core, which is had 4GB of RAM it has not got and hard drives installed in it so isn't being used, again I'm waiting to find a use for it but it does work.