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amiens80

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hi,

I use a ASUS P6T motherboard since July 2009. Yep almost 14years...
As my computer is old but pretty speed enough (with core i7-990x cpu and SSD) and almost parts are out of warranty and out of market now, i was wondering if there are other people who still use a very old hardware like mine or older.

What is the first faillure sign of a such motherboard (in normal daily use, not in stress use) ?

Best regards
 

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I still have a working p6t-deluxe mobo with a 920 in it sitting here... but i hasn't been used for some years.
 
My dads system , an Asus P45 motherboard with intel E7200 still going strong with an SSD and windows 10...
 
In my experience, you know your MB's on the way out when you start getting stability issues that replacing other components doesn't solve.
 
amiens80 said:
hi,

I use a ASUS P6T motherboard since July 2009. Yep almost 14years...
As my computer is old but pretty speed enough (with core i7-990x cpu and SSD) and almost parts are out of warranty and out of market now, i was wondering if there are other people who still use a very old hardware like mine or older.

What is the first faillure sign of a such motherboard (in normal daily use, not in stress use) ?

Best regards
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I have an older p5e-ws with Q6600 that still works. The CPU cooler (artic 7 freezer) plastic pegs going into the motherboard are getting brittle and I had a partial break so if you have a similar cooler with plastic pegs you might want to inspect them to ensure your cooler is not losing mounting tension from a broken peg. If you need to repaste your CPU there is a possibility the pegs might break when taking out or reinstalling the cooler.
 
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The oldest i own is a P5Q3 Deluxe with a QX9775, haven't booted that in a few years tho
I also own a P7H57D-V EVO with an i7 870 which my brother is currently using until he finishes buying all parts of his rig
Good old times
 
Really nice builds here cream of the crops in the day.

In my experience Ethernet and audio start to die before the board goes
 
I decommissioned all my 1366 systems around me last year... due to power reasons/electricity prices. Mitigations crippled those things also.

I gave away my Rampage II Gene to a Voodoo card collector as it had one of the last NATIVE PCI slots.
 
I just updated a P6T SE with a 256Gb Samsung 840 EVO and 18Gb of RAM with a 1Tb HHD. Cold boots in under 20 seconds. Nothing wrong with that.

I have another old Asus build using a P5E3 motherboard. Nothing fancy. Just updated the bios, found the original install disc and put in an SSD and some more RAM.

But check this out:

A German guy overclocked the same board using liquid nitrogen to cool the CPU and verified that he achieved 7.665 GHz using a Celeron 352!!

Plenty of awesome older boards out there that still have a lot of life left in them!

Rock on!
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Chilidog said:
I just updated a P6T SE with a 256Gb Samsung 840 EVO and 18Gb of RAM with a 1Tb HHD. Cold boots in under 20 seconds. Nothing wrong with that.

I have another old Asus build using a P5E3 motherboard. Nothing fancy. Just updated the bios, found the original install disc and put in an SSD and some more RAM.

But check this out:

A German guy overclocked the same board using liquid nitrogen to cool the CPU and verified that he achieved 7.665 GHz using a Celeron 352!!

Plenty of awesome older boards out there that still have a lot of life left in them!

Rock on!
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Can it run Cinebench R23? :D
 
I usd my X58 system as my main machine from 2009 and until 2021,where I built the machine I have now. So I was on X58 for 12 years.

My X58 system consisted of a asus p6x58d premium motherboard, i7 980x, 12 gb ddr3 memory, gtx 1080 TI and Samsung 950 PRO nvme ssd as it's last configuration before I sadly sold it. I regret that sometimes since then. It worked perfect and could have been a dam fast retro gamer pc.

And boy that i7 980x could overclock, even at aircooling i manage 4.75 ghz with 1.55 volts on the cpu, but it was toasty throw.

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i regret this times... you could buy a good motherboard quality and low cpu (like the i7-920) and re-use it in the year for many other cpu (until i7-990x).
i remember this time when people told me i was silly to purchase a high cpu whereas i told them it is for 10 years !
i use to say to my people , old stuff/device is better quality because welding size is stronger than today with nano welding .
 
I still use my X5680 at 4.4GHZ and an Asus P6T with a Nvidia 2070 super. Still plays all my games 4K.
 
My X58 system has long since been retired, but I have a socket 775 G41 board in service as my server (high uptime scenario, always on 24/7). I also have an S3420 (P55) server board with a X3470 ready to install.

The 990X was great, I've used it for over 8 years before I finally retired it. The IPC has grown anemic and the lack of AVX support soured it fast in the recent years.

You should definitely consider an upgrade nowadays. You'll be surprised at how much have computers improved since those days.
 
My main machine at home is a Core 2 and wait for Windows 10 support to end before buying a replacement; have upgraded the CPU, GPU, RAM and run on a hybrid hard drive, so things are still quite snappy.

I would be more concerned about the power supply failing than the motherboard.


Put my money into a 2K monitor.
 
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Shrek said:
My main machine at home is a Core 2 and wait for Windows 10 support to end before buying a replacement; have upgraded the CPU, GPU, RAM and run on a hybrid hard drive, so things are still quite snappy.

I would be more concerned about the power supply failing than the motherboard.


Put my money into a 2K monitor.
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And you know, I believe you. I have an E8600 here myself and if one is not a gamer they aren't going to be too bothered by its performance.

That isn't to say that a modern PC won't be much snappier, it will, but they're still perfectly usable if your computing habits are frugal.
 
I still have a fully functional Asus A7N8X rig with a XP 3200+ Barton in it. I also have an Asus M4A79 Deluxe with a Thuban X6 1090T in it running Windows 10. I was surprised I was able to get everything working on that one.
 
Dr. Dro said:
And you know, I believe you. I have an E8600 here myself and if one is not a gamer they aren't going to be too bothered by its performance.

That isn't to say that a modern PC won't be much snappier, it will, but they're still perfectly usable if your computing habits are frugal.
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My CPU is a Q9550 (Core 2 Quad) and my GPU a GDDR5 GT1030

So it can run games like the new Layers of Fear or Amnesia The Bunker, even if it is way below minimum specs, and it runs them well.
 
bobbybluz said:
I still have a fully functional Asus A7N8X rig with a XP 3200+ Barton in it. I also have an Asus M4A79 Deluxe with a Thuban X6 1090T in it running Windows 10. I was surprised I was able to get everything working on that one.
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Considering Thuban was Windows 7 days.

I have my DFI LP NF2 Ultra B still, with a XP-M 2500 still, I have a 3200 I will slave in once I put a stock bios back on it
 
so you think the power supply will fail before the motherboard ?
i'm luck because with the motherboard, i bough a quality one (from this time), it is a thermaleck model.
off course, i already change hardrive too.
first thing which fail down was the ram module. it was corsair (or crucial). AS they are in "life warranty", i get new one at the 8th year. then it was the cpu fan (original intel) which work very fine too. i hade to rebuy the same model on ebay.
 
Well quality power supplies can be warenteed for 10 years, so will probably last; I'm surprised about the RAM, but not so much the fan.

I have several PCs, so can afford to run old ones as I have backups (of the data and hardware); if your old PC is all you have, I would suggest getting a new machine and keeping the old one as a backup.
 
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I sold my X58 system a couple of years ago.. R3F and X5690 ES. I still have my X48 system though :D
 
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