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

[X71200]

last years i got a pair of dali zensor 5 , hope they will last as my dad old bose from 1980" ......

Actually, I have those in my living room. Certainly good speakers for their size. Should last for many years to come for sure.

 

[hat]

I feel the loss of my X-fi sound card, and people say onboard has came a long way, it does not replace a dedicated sound card, I lost part of the joy of using my headphones...

Back in the day I had some fun with the headphone amp in my Xonar DG... too bad it's PCI.

 

[blobster21]

Back in the day I had some fun with the headphone amp in my Xonar DG... too bad it's PCI.

There's alway the Xonar DX/XD/A which is PCI-E 1x if you want to give a try. I gave away this sound card to a friend last week because i went all USB (soundblaster X-Fi Pro Studio 5.1, together with a pair of 4" mackie CR4 monitoring speakers and a Fostex PM-submini 2 subwoofer)

 

[cucker tarlson]

superflower leadex gold 850w psu - late 2014
z97 board - some time h2 2014 as well
s2716dg,now secondary,from 2015
seagate 1tb - early 2014,god damn,an extraordinary piece of budget hardware,fast as hell for a HDD,cool and quiet.
850 pro 256 drive from march/april 2014,added a lot more ssds since then.scratch that.I added way too many ssds since then.

 

[Deeveo]

Asus Xonar Essence STX from early January 2011. Still running strong, although could use some love from Asus on driver department to get rid random of getting up from sleep issues.

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

I had these speakers Altec Lansing ACS54 speakers for almost 20 years now. This working just fine and sounding really well. Survive the pentium 3 days until now.

Edit : Found a pdf of this speaker from the 2000s haha. 1 year limited warranty....well it outlasted that.

 

[Grog6]

That is such a trip!

I have that same Altec setup as a 2.1 setup; it's easily the best computer sound setup I've ever had, that didn't involve a real 100+W/ch amp.

Awesome!!

 

[MIRTAZAPINE]

That is such a trip!

I have that same Altec setup as a 2.1 setup; it's easily the best computer sound setup I've ever had, that didn't involve a real 100+W/ch amp.

Awesome!!

It a 4.1 speaker if you have the right connections, I only use a single 3.5mm for it. The speaker was my elder brother's it was in storage for a while, I cleaned it up and use it ever since finding it in storage. It sounds very good vs pc speaker nowadays. I miss the 2000s so much now.

 

[TKnockers]

Corsair tx750...10 years old give or take.

 

[djisas]

I have discovered my ancient Zalman ZM850 developed a new modern feature after all this years, it now has fan stop, permanent fan stop and apart from some whining during gaming it's working perfectly fine...

Another piece of ancient tech would be my Creative Inspire t7900 7.1

 

[BlackSun59]

Even though I've just built a new system, the oldest parts that have been in daily use in every build since 2001 (DEC Venturis workstation, 133MHz P1) are the PSU power cord and my ugly beige Compaq Professional PS/2 keyboard.

 

[niceone]

LG BH10LS30 bluray-burner from almost a decade ago.

 

[R-T-B]

I finally got an OLED.

The plasma will have a proper funeral. I'll think of something interesting.

I guess that makes my CD-burner my oldest part, which is weird.

 

[silentbogo]

I think mine qualifies as "continuously" for 200%.
My main mail server has been running 24/7 since 2012. It's a puny Atom D2550, but it gets the job done.
The only thing I had to replace is a PSU (bad caps). Re-capping the old one was out of question, since it requires a friggin' napalm cannon or BFG3000 to desolder aluminium radiators.
Now it sports a brand-new Seasonic, so it's probably good for another 10 years.

Also, my G5 is in a process of second restoration. It's been in active use since 2008-ish or something like that. The first makeover log is in my sig. Current restoration is going to be much-much deeper, but I've already managed to work out all the kinks and fix small stuff that I've been ignoring for the past.
A little glimpse of what's to come:

Spoiler

I've used the exact same vinyl color, cause I was cleaning up the office and found the leftover stash that I've used back in 2017[!!!]

 

[btarunr]

Sound Blaster Recon 3D sound card from when dinosaurs walked the Earth.

 

[ShurikN]

The plasma will have a proper funeral. I'll think of something interesting.

Oh man, i was blown away by some of the last released plasmas to the market. 10ish years ago. Had an LG 55" for a couple of days, and man those blacks... Tried some games and it was definitely not meant for it but movies looked bonkers good.
The downside being, it weighed a ton and produced so much heat that you could easily keep the room warm at winter.

 

[R-T-B]

Oh man, i was blown away by some of the last released plasmas to the market. 10ish years ago. Had an LG 55" for a couple of days, and man those blacks... Tried some games and it was definitely not meant for it but movies looked bonkers good.
The downside being, it weighed a ton and produced so much heat that you could easily keep the room warm at winter.

Yeah the heat was always an issue, I think it's what made Panasonic throw in the towel and after that it was all downhill for Plasma.. Other than that I loved the thing for gaming. You needed to find a rare one that supported Chroma 444 though to be any good at gaming, and they were pretty obscure and hard to find.

Panasonic's before 2009 tended to be chroma 444 but they also were even hotter than usual. It got sweaty in here some days, lol.

 

[JalleR]

Logitech G19 and a Kingston ssdNOW V+ 120GB SSD still going strong

 

[INSTG8R]

Logitech G19 and a Kingston ssdNOW V+ 120GB SSD still going strong

I guess-my G19s is pretty old too In fact I need to start scouring buy and sells for spares I just can’t live without the LCD screen I use for monitoring via AIDA64. Been using it since the G15 and it was still Everest.

 

[ShurikN]

For my current "rig" which is an Alienware 15 R3, probably the oldest piece of hardware is the laptop itself. Only 2 more pieces of hardware are being used with it and those are Steelseries m500 KB and a Logitech G703 mouse... so yeah, not really old
NO WAIT, it's actually the DualShock 4. It's older than the AW, by at least a year.

In terms of all the hardware i possess, I'm guessing MX510 which is still being used by my wife in her office/lab. Also an old Cooler Master 450W PSU, cant remember the model, but it was bought alongside Athlon 64. Still works, gonna repurpose it for an arcade cabinet.

 

[djisas]

I think i remember a new one, the guy bragging about his 128GB ssd did it.
WD black 640GB sata, running flawlessly for 38K hours, I also have a samsung F3, but it isnt as old...
And my logitech MX3000 keyboard is a good 14 yo...

 

[theonek]

well, guess i am still using an ancient 5.1 speakers Luxeon, which are nearly 16 years old and still working, other oldest thing is my mouse logitech G7, several G19/s keyboards which are newer than mouse and speakers, and of course all CM cases from the old generation, when they were made from aluminium and steel, not like current tin cans with glasses and rgb....

 

[Steevo]

My water pump is almost 10 years old.

I have been busy with life, but 3 years ago or so when I changed coolant it still looked new.

 

[PHaS3]

Has to be either my Blackwidow Ultimate, my Creative SoundBlaster Recon3D PCIE or perhaps my Logitech X530 speakers. Probably the speakers I think. They're still tip top condition though, no reason to upgrade them.

 

[sepheronx]

Currently I have a HT Omega Striker PCI card in my main rig (Dell T3500) that has been around since 2007. If my MX 518 mouse didnt die, I would still be using that. Instead it was replaced with a HP Voodoo mouse around same time I got the sound card.