A loss of a friend

[uuuaaaaaa]

I actually have a 74GB Raptor from 2006 still in continuous use. That is one well-built HDD.

I also have on of those, still use it!

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

My 5870 ref bought on day 1 and a later 5850 live on still but after 5 years pc stuff really can start to show its age.
Back when I started folding@home a q6600 and my 5870 earned 20-30000(presently at 5-600000) a day but the Q6600 died a 5GHz + death one giddy day after 6 years good use at my hands so I've slowly built this build but all my pc parts have lived beyond 5 years then live on in friends and family pcs

 

[laszlo]

Define hardware!

I've still got some stuff laying around that's older than me...

Still got a Brick Game that entered the house when I was five Works perfectly still

i'm guessing was not "made in China"

 

[yogurt_21]

was hoping for this someone hit the 25yr + in the poll, alright so come one what is it? I know several school districts and banks have no problem hitting that mark (both sometimes can hit double that due to old proprietary systems no one knows how to migrate from and are now instrumental to their success). But I wasn't sure if any personal users could hit it. Would love to know what it is.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

OK...does this count?

Not in daily use for a long time. If i had an old enough TV i would test it. One broken button which is inside the controller ready for repair. I still have the box too.



The Sportsvision 1000 was 1977 and had Intel Inside.

Intel - TV Sport 1004 Sold by: n/a, Germany, 1977
Produced by: Interelectric GmbH & CoKG München
Chip: AY-3-8500

 

[dorsetknob]

Just hold down the "ALT " key and key/type in "1","5", and "6" on the numeric keypad; release the "ALT" key and poof... you have a "£"

God that brings back old memory's using alt key + Numbers to get keyboard input for un mapped keyboard characters not supported by your keyboard

 

[Jetster]

Hard becomes obsolete long before it should fail. With the exception of anything that moves. Like hard drives, fans, optical drives

An example is a ISA slot modem I have. I'm sure it works, has to be almost 20 years old

 

[SK-1]

505 Watt Logitech Z680 still thumping hard.

 

[revin]

1998 and i still use it every day.

ah-ha that's why you caps lock is sticking !! lol
BTW Very nice KB !

 

[AhokZYashA]

my hitachi deskstar 500GB, built oct 2007, bought feb 2008, still alive and in use now, for my game drive,

and an altec lansing ATP3, bought dunno when, still alive and sounding great as ever

 

[GLD]

A little sideways here, but it was a loss for me. I had a brand new Sapphire R9 390 and a brand new EVGA 600w psu, both installed at the same time and only ran about a week. I left the pc running while I was away watching some TV for about 2 hours. I came back and the 390 was bricked! I tried everything, but it was a gonner. I was really really sad. I was able to send it back and downgrade (more sad) to a R9 380.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

ah-ha that's why you caps lock is sticking !! lol
BTW Very nice KB !

All these buttons used to work but the drivers were never updated after XP. Shame really, having vol control on the k/b was really handy.

I never needed the HELP button...

 

[RCoon]

My Razer Deathadder 2014 died last night after a mere 3 years. Pulled out my 5 year old Roccat Kone XTD and its still gloriously skating across the desk as if it were never abandoned.

 

[R-T-B]

My 1989 IBM Model M Keyboard is still somewhere in the closet. I'd still be using it if it weren't for me discovering a n-key rollover annoyance (it can only do 2 keys).

 

[RandomAxe]

I have an old Emachines T2862 and a monitor that came with it that i used to mess with when i was a kid, that piece of junk is what helped get me into computers. I think it was made in 2002. Never had a single problem with it, and i still fire it up to mess with the tricked out Mint distro i put on it. Intel Extreme Graphics FTW!!! Also, If someone has an old ATI HD 2400pro PCI for that thing i could buy, that would be swell. I would like to see what that old Celeron is capable of with an actual GPU.
Oh yeah, and my dad has an old Commodore 64 that he still likes to mess with.

Keep thinking of stuff, I have an old reference GTX 460 thats in my other rig (hp pavilion p7 1054) that i keep at an absolutely ridiculous clock speed of 885 on the core. Still works fine. Not THAT old, but i figured its impressive for a card to last that long with such an aggressive overclock.

 

[kurosagi01]

I've had my Logitech Z-4 2.1 speakers since 2010 and still running them to this date,won't be replacing them until it blows up.

 

[MustSeeMelons]

Don't have a good track record here. All the MOBOS I've had crapped out right after the 2 year mark (although my current system is the first one I've bought on my own, guess I'm that young), phones usually die in a fireball or get crippled after a year. Have just one exception - I do still own a set of Logitech 5.1 speakers which I bought in 2004, still in use to this day.

 

[john_]

This title is really bad. It makes you think of something much worst.

Anyway, a couple of Adata 32GB SSDs are the first thing I can think of. Probably using them for over 6 years by now. First as OS disks, now as Win XP back up disks. A Saitek SP550 probably closes 10 years or more and a Promise Ultra ATA 100 was always in one of my PCs until recently for use with my IDE DVDs. Those IDE DVDs are also pretty old obviously. The one is a NEC 2500A. 10+ years also. Bought two IDE<>SATA converters two months ago, so I removed the Promise controller. Two Chieftec PSUs, one 560W and the other 850W probably closing 8 and 6 years respectively. Much more hardware with life between 3 and 5 years.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Compaq fp5315


2004

I have one attached to a Phenom ii x 2 system i am putting together as a Minecraft machine for a friends daughter. It still works perfectly.

 

[djrabes]

I still have some Logitech PC speakers from 2006 that I'm still using with my gaming PC. Also from the mid-2000s...Packard Bell piece of junk. Pentium 4 @ 3.06GHz, 4GB DDR2 and 80GB HDD, ran XP like a dog and was an okay test server running Server 2008 R2 for about 3 months till I retired it in April and replaced it with an HP MicroServer!

 

[P4-630]

Still have a microsoft sidewinder gamepad from 2003, it's still working.

 

[P4-630]

Packard Bell piece of junk.

My first computer was Packard Hell, a laptop, didn't had it for long, it had overheating problems, thermal pad between CPU and coolingblock was no good.
Then my parents bought a Packard Hell as well, they had it not for a long time and the HDD died, a friend installed a new HDD and they have used the thing for 2 more years or so, then the monitor died. My mom bought a laptop and they threw that desktop away.

 

[djrabes]

My first computer was Packard Hell, a laptop, didn't had it for long, it had overheating problems, thermal pad between CPU and coolingblock was no good.
Then my parents bought a Packard Hell as well, they had it not for a long time and the HDD died, a friend installed a new HDD and they have used the thing for 2 more years or so, then the monitor died. My mom bought a laptop and they threw that desktop away.

To be fair. It did run Windows Server 2008 R2 fine, until it sounded like it was part of NASA's space program

 

[Basard]

1998 and i still use it every day.

That's a NICE keyboard!

 

[EntropyZ]

Never had anything die before permanently, I had an old DFI Pentium II/III era motherboard that had crappy capacitors, which I swiftly replaced and then the motherboard was working like new, it lasted a few years after buying it used from a corner hardware store. The mobo works but has issues detecting HDD's.

Though what was precious for me n' my dad that died was an (yes that's what they liked to be called) ASUSTek P4P800-E Deluxe that was running a P4 3.0GHz Northwood which is now decorating my wall. My dad got the computer parts back in 2004 and the computer lasted good 7 years (longest time he used same hardware).

Dad used to play Command & Conquer games ALL DAY LONG to the point where I was thinking why is he playing such old games repetitively on the same map? He still does it now on his FX 8350 rig, except that I went and upgraded CnC Generals for him with the Shockwave mod, I take care of his software needs, most of the time.

It couldn't boot into Windows anymore and had its capacitors blown out. Nothing I couldn't fix, with a solder and an oven, but I think I'm laying it to rest because the hardware has become so obsolete that it can't run a modern browser properly, AN INTERNET BROWSER, WHAT!? (I know why it is like that though, I just can't accept it )

The only things that survived were the case (obviously) and Creative Inspire 7.1 speakers. And those speakers are still running 12 years on, holy s**t. The amp is always warm, like on my own Inspire 2.1.

Still in it's final days it was still kicking, the processor running a hyper-threaded core it could run Crysis at decent framerates. And after seeing what pre-2006/7 hardware could do, it was the first time I realized that the PC platform holds a special place in my memories.

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The only recent e-death was 2 HDD's running on a cheap faulty PSU that was lying around that killed two half TB HDD's. That weren't mine, so I had to replace them out of my pocket. Luckily it didn't kill the Pentium Dual-Core E8400 / Gigabyte EP45T-DS3R system that I was building for a family friend.

I re-purposed the zombie PSU to run a water pump to drain water in my garden. It's doing its time for killing the innocents, lmao.