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What is the oldest piece of continually running hardware you currently use with your rig?

I have two SB X-Fi Platinum's still in use, one in the PC I'm on at the moment. One I bought new in 2005 and the other I got for $20 off Craigslist 10 years ago. The second is the one in this PC.
 
My Qnix 27" 1440p monitor. I can't believe it is 6 years old at this point. It does 120Hz, but drops frames past 100Hz. I run it at 75Hz these days just because I can't really see much difference past that anyway. Though it is starting to get some backlight flicker when it's cold, so I'm in the market for a replacement.
 
LG lightscribe super-multi drive or my Raidmax case. either would be 11+ years old.
 
I guess my 750GB WD Black hard drive. It just turned 10 in July.

Unless mouse pads count... My HardOCP RatpadzGS is a month older. lol

Edit: Oops, I take that back: my Tripp-Lite surge protector is the oldest hardware I have. It's not really computer hardware, but I have always had my computer plugged into it.

It's 24 years old. I doubt it's protecting from surges by now, but it's a super-rugged power strip.

Edit #2: Yep, just noticed the "Protection Present" LED is no longer lit.
 
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I have a new monitor arriving on Monday for the 'updated' gym room (thanks COVID, never thought I'd need a gym room in my own home). It turns out I have a Samsung 920N monitor in there that I bought in 2004. Analogue D-Sub, 6-bit TN with FRC, cold cathode backlight, and probably 30% sRGB coverage.

I'd kind of forgotten about it - it displays the internet and it's not broken, but when I wanted to watch TV shows whilst on the turbo trainer, (16:9 content, mostly) I realised that 1280x1024 and TN aren't a good match.

I've had it on Freecycle for 4 days now and nobody's interested - I may have to actually trash it - apparently nobody wants a yellowing, 16-year-old, analogue-only, low quality TN panel from the infancy of LCD monitors when we were still trying to work out it they were better than CRTs. Given that I received junk mail the other day that was a physical tablet with an IPS 1080p disposable display, I guess legacy displays like this are genuinely valueless.
 
500GB WD Blue running as a File History Backup drive or my Corsair Graphite 600T case both are 10 years old.
 
Prime2515102 said:
I guess my 750GB WD Black hard drive. It just turned 10 in July.

Unless mouse pads count... My HardOCP RatpadzGS is a month older. lol

Edit: Oops, I take that back: my Tripp-Lite surge protector is the oldest hardware I have. It's not really computer hardware, but I have always had my computer plugged into it.

It's 24 years old. I doubt it's protecting from surges by now, but it's a super-rugged power strip.

Edit #2: Yep, just noticed the "Protection Present" LED is no longer lit.
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The one thing protecting your pc from "blowing up" is just a simple fuse, if it's working then the fuse's fine and it will keep working...
Had one of those surge protections that stopped working, lasted a long while...
 
My main machine at home is a 10 year old Core 2 PC on Windows 10; works just great.

Then again I upgraded it to

* a Core 2 Quad
* more than 8GB RAM (DDR-3)
* a hybrid hard drive (Seagate FireCuda)
* a reasonable fan-less video card (GeForce GT 1030)

Replaced the secondary capacitors in the power supply although they did not need replacing.

Did something similar to a 10 year old AMD based PC, moving the Athlon dual to a Phenom quad; also in daily use.
 
I feel left out. Everything is recent.

Do 4-5 year old zip ties count (or tweezers hehe)?
 
Ah, good times end. In post #68, I said my shucked WD Greenpower drive was still working.... It finally died. Would click madly during power up, not be seen in explorer. I'd have to do a hard shutdown, wait 10 seconds and power on again (a soft restart won't wake it up). I backed up anything I had on it. All SMART data shows okay, HDD Sentinel shows nothing wrong, in fact I had it wiped twice, then finally removed it from the case. Oh, you served me well! :respect:
 
My FSP 750 Aurum is around 7 years now and still works. I might need to change it with the next gpu upgrade.
 
s1156 system still running daily as a "kitchen computer" complete with 1st i7. :)
Still works like a charm for simple stuff, web browsing, music playback..etc..
 
My PSU. Seasonic X-850 KM3 Rev B. Got it new from Newegg in Nov 2016 for like $65 shipped during Black Friday.
 
2004 Gateway keyboard that came with my fist bought computer, though it had been on a shelf for a few years(probably 5 years of use)currently.
 
My case fans have been running since 2006 :D
 
The Corsair AX760 psu (2013), and the warranty just expired :twitch:
 
Prime2515102 said:
Edit: Oops, I take that back: my Tripp-Lite surge protector is the oldest hardware I have. It's not really computer hardware, but I have always had my computer plugged into it.

It's 24 years old. I doubt it's protecting from surges by now, but it's a super-rugged power strip.

Edit #2: Yep, just noticed the "Protection Present" LED is no longer lit.
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Tripp-Lite is sending me a replacement after 24 years, and the model number and serial number aren't even present on it, and I obviously don't have a reciept. They only asked for pics of the top and bottom.

That's some customer service right there... They didn't even ask me to send the old one back.

Doesn't get any better than that... lol
 
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tigger said:
Me 51 years old
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Do you put yourself in a computer rig? Also not mature for a 51 years old to have his location in "up my ass".
 
Rei said:
Do you put yourself in a computer rig? Also not mature for a 51 years old to have his location in "up my ass".
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He's just a "big" kid with a "healthy" mind...
 
My 500GB Sandisk X400 SSD I use as a bootdrive, got it two years ago along with my prebuilt. When I switched to building my PC, this is the only thing that remained from my prebuilt.
 
Hi,
Wall outlet :-)
 
Gigabyte i-RAM GC-RAMDISK PCI cards, from around 2006 I believe, around 14 years old. Still using some on X79/Z77 boards. And maybe the Rosewill 4U chassis's (old design), I feel like they've been around for a long time.
 
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