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

Steevo said:
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.
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Mine is 20 my case/water cooling was designed for the P4. I’ve always said I’ll replace it when the pump dies it’s never even slowed down...
 
@cucker tarlson laugh all you like I just replaced the block with an AC Kryos and it’s on its 4th build,, 360 Copper rad and keeps my/ 4790K under 60C even under the heaviest of loads. Problem is the case weighs 22kg empty
 
Seems like a dead thread but I'm gonna pitch in anyway...

My HP Pavilion 14 Inch CRT Monitor which my old man inherited to me 8 years ago on my 8th birthday. Date Of Manufacturing was in 1996 while my old man bought it 2 years later. I'm gonna keep using it cuz it has never given him nor me any crap or glitches whatsoever. I'm sentimental that way.
Actually there is also a working 1992 IBM 14 Inch CRT Monitor as well lying around but the picture quality is bad & is rarely used.
 
Still listening tunes with Audigy2 ZS :)
 
Nothing too old... The old (dual platter?) Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB. It's reserved for luke-warm storage. :p
 
EarthDog said:
Nothing too old... The old (dual platter?) Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB. It's reserved for luke-warm storage. :p
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Just sold mine, it had some 38k hours in it, served me well, sure it will last another 10 years...
 
EarthDog said:
Nothing too old... The old (dual platter?) Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB. It's reserved for luke-warm storage. :p
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Didn't you already mentioned it in your 7th comment of the first page? It's fine... Don't worry bout it.
Come to think of it, My Seagate 30 GB IDE/PATA HDD has 1999 as it's manufacturing date. Dunno when it was bought though. It's even now still connected to my desktop as an extra storage drive even with it's minuscule capacity. CrystalDiskMark shows 35 MB/s average speed.
 
My Technics speakers from an old SB-EH60 Stereo system from 2000 same as these oh and a Logitech G105 Keyboard

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Hours is in thread are a joke for me, a PS2 player..

No worries friends.
 
Rei said:
Didn't you already mentioned it in your 7th comment of the first page? It's fine... Don't worry bout it.
Come to think of it, My Seagate 30 GB IDE/PATA HDD has 1999 as it's manufacturing date. Dunno when it was bought though. It's even now still connected to my desktop as an extra storage drive even with it's minuscule capacity. CrystalDiskMark shows 35 MB/s average speed.
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lol, oops. Still the oldest I guess.
 
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on my main rig, it'd have to be my WD Green 2Tb, though it needs replacing.
On any rig, probably the x58 Motherboard or my HAF 922 Case (2 different rigs)
 
Hi,
Heck just fired up a old acer aspire from 2009 I believe
Mother board/ memory/ q9550/ same cd/ dvd burner and 1600-900 monitor :)
Continuous usage well it was put on nearly a 3 year vacation once I put together a x299 build.
 
My whole rig lol:roll:......................................................................
 
lexluthermiester said:
That was a nice system!
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Use to have a Panasonic system somewhat similar for 12 years. Each L/R speaker had a sub woofer good for 130 watts. The speakers were bi-wired, the mid/treble was isolated in the enclosure.

It also had the middle, and surround speakers for Dolby Pro Logic.
 
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Still have my Antec 1200 case. It's still my main tower case. Many mobo upgrades, many cpu upgrades, the old case still keeps humming with it's muliple fans.
And yeah, my mobo and cpu are 7 years old. Only 16 threads, wahhh!
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2002 dell optiplex 270, a couple of HDD's older than that. i dont have any stuff than goes past 2000. :)
 
Still have my Antec Three hundred case. Thought about switching back for the open ventilation in the front panel of the case. The only issue is no front panel USB 3.0 connections.

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biffzinker said:
The only issue is no front panel USB 3.0 connections.
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You can add them with a 5.25" bay adapter. They generally look very good too. You can get them with type C connectors as well. Examples;

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It would be a small investment to be able to reuse a very cool looking case!
 
I'll have to take a pic, but I did add a 5 1/4" front plate and added usb 3. Works perfect!
 
I found a photo of the Panasonic system I use to have. It was still in excellent condition but took up too much space. A little heavy on the bass that I didn’t care for as I got older.

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johnspack said:
Still have my Antec 1200 case. It's still my main tower case. Many mobo upgrades, many cpu upgrades, the old case still keeps humming with it's muliple fans.
And yeah, my mobo and cpu are 7 years old. Only 16 threads, wahhh!
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I still have this case as well and use it for my home server. I wish Antec would make a modern version of this case. The dust filters, fan speed knobs in the front, and LED's orientation for the fans were actually pretty nice for it's day.
 
My Case - HAF 932 11 yrs and seagate drives (5 yrs) - all new insides
 
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