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

Rock N Roll Rebel · Oct 21, 2020

I did have some Logitech g51 speakers got some new speakers Logitech z906 my x-wife has the g51 now they are 12 years old and still going strong

Rickkins · Oct 21, 2020

Gotta be my Xfi Titanium sound card...

ebivan · Oct 21, 2020

I have an old WD Green 2TB in there, that is 9 or 10 years old. Got some backups of backups and some music on it, because ssd is still to expansive for that kind of data...

Hyderz · Oct 21, 2020

i7 6700k

lemoncarbonate · Oct 21, 2020

Cranky5150 said:
Ryzen 2700 x

Ryzen 1700X for me, and basically my whole PC with Sapphire RX 480 8GB, almost 4 year old.
EVGA 750 G2 died in 10 months, replaced with G3, still running strong.

1080 Ti upgrade is on the way, hopefully next week.

ebivan said:
I have an old WD Green 2TB in there, that is 9 or 10 years old. Got some backups of backups and some music on it, because ssd is still to expansive for that kind of data...

How? My Seagate Barracuda 3TB started having bad sector just in 2 years. Crystal Disk says warning.

lexluthermiester · Oct 21, 2020

While I shared these pictures in another thread, they fit in here as well.
The mice are custom painted and are nearly 20 years old.

Jetster · Oct 21, 2020

lemoncarbonate said:
How? My Seagate Barracuda 3TB started having bad sector just in 2 years. Crystal Disk says warning.

Because Chrystal disk warnings can be wrong, especially with Seagate. Use Seagate's software. Has to do with Seagate's firmware and how it marks sectors for remapping

Athlonite · Oct 21, 2020

lemoncarbonate said:
How? My Seagate Barracuda 3TB started having bad sector just in 2 years. Crystal Disk says warning.

that's an issue with those particular seagate HDD's the 2TB and 4TB ones don't have the issue of dying young and I also have a 2TB WD green in an Elements USB drive case that's been going for quite a few years now (atleast 8) which has surprised the shit out of me what with all the stories of peoples WD Greens dying left right and center

djisas · Oct 21, 2020

These, a couple of tt fans, probably 15+ yo, they served me well, and a cm red led 80mm fan that was never as good.
Getting rid of these allowed me to finally disable the equally old hardcano 3 fan controller. Upgrading to noctua fans and cleaning up the cable mess.

zenlaserman · Oct 21, 2020

I have a pair of machines with 2007-era Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboards. They have i975X chipsets and support Pentium 4, were the first Intel motherboard to support Core 2 Quads. I have QX6800 in one and Q6700 in the other. They still run top notch, hands-down most rock-solid motherboard I have ever dealt with in 25 years of tinkering. In one of those machines I have an X-Fi Xtreme Music PCI soundcard from 2005. It was advertised as being equivalent to a Pentium 4 3.2GHz for sound processing. It still sounds great and it gets used a lot.

Stepping back, I have a rig I built in 2000 as an XP/DOS rig. It has a Pentium 3 1GHz and an All-In-Wonder X800XT video card. This rig still runs, TV tuner still works, it's a decent emulation rig as it can play most MAME games without trouble. What's funny is old consoles can connect to PC since it has coaxial cable input. Emulate while you play the real thing, I guess. I like my old shit.

Edit: drives. I have 4x WD 500GB AAKS drives that all went bad at the same time last month. They all dated from 2007 and were fine up until one reboot. Then one error after another, just finished replacing them. I have a Seagate 1.5TB and WD 1TB Black that work fine, 10 years old. I have a 2016 Seagate 3GB that went wonky after a year. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it acts up. SMART never tells me anything but Aok. For me it's always been hit-or-miss with Seagate, I try to stick with WD for spinners. Can usually get a solid 10 years out of em.

Frick · Oct 21, 2020

lemoncarbonate said:
How? My Seagate Barracuda 3TB started having bad sector just in 2 years. Crystal Disk says warning.

Different drives. My WD Blues are from 2013 and are just chugging along.

Keullo-e · Oct 21, 2020

Probably my keyboard as it has those older Vista/7 type Windows keys. Also my wheel (Driving Force GT) seems to be released back in 2007.

lexluthermiester · Oct 22, 2020

djisas said:
These, a couple of tt fans, probably 15+ yo, they served me well, and a cm red led 80mm fan that was never as good.
Getting rid of these allowed me to finally disable the equally old hardcano 3 fan controller. Upgrading to noctua fans and cleaning up the cable mess.
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Fans are serviceable. Take the label and rubber stopper off the back, add a drop of a quality synthetic oil or a bit of high temp gear grease and seal it back up.

Mussels · Oct 22, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
Fans are serviceable. Take the label and rubber stopper off the back, add a drop of a quality synthetic oil or a bit of high temp gear grease and seal it back up.

unless they're like the PSU fan i did where it exploded across the floor moments after it got oiled

lexluthermiester · Oct 22, 2020

Mussels said:
unless they're like the PSU fan i did where it exploded across the floor moments after it got oiled

Wow! Never seen that happen before...

djisas · Oct 22, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
Fans are serviceable. Take the label and rubber stopper off the back, add a drop of a quality synthetic oil or a bit of high temp gear grease and seal it back up.

Cool, but already replaced them all, and i. Wanted to get rid of the cable mess the fans and controller cause, it was impossible to do any sort of cable management inside my case...

micropage7 · Oct 22, 2020

Quadro FX580

hat said:
The oldest part of my main rig is, without a doubt, the chassis.

hahaa, yea i still use case from Pentium 4 era

plat · Oct 22, 2020

My Founders Edition GTX 1080. It runs very well but its days are numbered with the rtx 3070 on the horizon.

lexluthermiester · Oct 23, 2020

micropage7 said:
hahaa, yea i still use case from Pentium 4 era

Hey, if it works it works. There's no shame in keeping something you like and works well.

plat said:
My Founders Edition GTX 1080. It runs very well but its days are numbered with the rtx 3070 on the horizon.

That's the oldest piece of hardware you have? Damn!

lemoncarbonate · Oct 23, 2020

Jetster said:
Because Chrystal disk warnings can be wrong, especially with Seagate. Use Seagate's software. Has to do with Seagate's firmware and how it marks sectors for remapping

I actually checked crystal disk after encountered multiple un-copy-able files in my hdd. Seagate's software said my hdd is healthy

Athlonite said:
that's an issue with those particular seagate HDD's the 2TB and 4TB ones don't have the issue of dying young and I also have a 2TB WD green in an Elements USB drive case that's been going for quite a few years now (atleast 8) which has surprised the shit out of me what with all the stories of peoples WD Greens dying left right and center

I didn't know about this specific issue. I switched to WD Blue 4TB right away after that.
My luck is so bad with seagate's drives.

lexluthermiester · Oct 23, 2020

lemoncarbonate said:
I actually checked crystal disk after encountered multiple un-copy-able files in my hdd. Seagate's software said my hdd is healthy

Then you have a problem beyond your hard drive, very likely a software issue. HDD's are not very complex devices. As general rule, they either work fine or they don't. The only exception I have seen to that rule is a drive that is on the bleeding edge of death and that usually doesn't last long.

lemoncarbonate said:
I didn't know about this specific issue. I switched to WD Blue 4TB right away after that.
My luck is so bad with seagate's drives.

That was likely a good idea. Have you troubleshot the drive further?

Valantar · Oct 23, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
Then you have a problem beyond your hard drive, very likely a software issue. HDD's are not very complex devices. As general rule, they either work fine or they don't. The only exception I have seen to that rule is a drive that is on the bleeding edge of death and that usually doesn't last long.

They can act weird though. I had an old 2TB WD Green that on the surface worked perfectly, only it delivered read speeds around ~150KB/s. Consistently. I am very, very glad that it was part of a mirrored Storage Space, as I could then swap it out without spending something like half a year copying data from it.

cornemuse · Oct 23, 2020

Dont know just how old it is but my sandisk cruzer mini 128 meg thumb drive. Use it several times weekly to store recipes.

djisas · Oct 23, 2020

lemoncarbonate said:
I actually checked crystal disk after encountered multiple un-copy-able files in my hdd. Seagate's software said my hdd is healthy

I didn't know about this specific issue. I switched to WD Blue 4TB right away after that.
My luck is so bad with seagate's drives.

Out of almost 20 HDD, most of which seagates, 1 seagete 500GB was doa with smoke and all, and 1 320GB, both where made in china, thailand drives where fine, though 2 500GB drives had bad sectors already when I got rid of them. 2 WD drives lasted forever until sold...

Keullo-e · Oct 23, 2020

cornemuse said:
Dont know just how old it is but my sandisk cruzer mini 128 meg thumb drive. Use it several times weekly to store recipes.

I remember my uncle having a 16MB USB drive. That was like in 2003 or something.

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

Rock N Roll Rebel

Rickkins

ebivan

Hyderz

lemoncarbonate

lexluthermiester

Jetster

Athlonite

djisas

zenlaserman

Frick

Fishfaced Nincompoop

Keullo-e

S.T.A.R.S.

lexluthermiester

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

lexluthermiester

djisas

micropage7

plat

lexluthermiester

lemoncarbonate

lexluthermiester

Valantar

cornemuse

djisas

Keullo-e

S.T.A.R.S.

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Motherboard	ASUS Prime Z390X-A // ASRock B550 ITX-AC
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Video Card(s)	ASUS RTX4070 OC// GTX 1650
Storage	Samsung 970 EVO NVMe 1Tb, Intel 665p Series M.2 2280 1TB // Samsung 1Tb SSD
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Mouse	Cooler Master MM710 53G
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Processor	AMD RyZen R7 7800X3D
Motherboard	Asus Strix X670E - E Gaming WIFI
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Memory	32GB GSkill Trident Z5 Neo 6000
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Nitro+ OC RX6800 16GB DDR6 2270Cclk / 2010Mclk
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Mouse	Logitech G502 Proteus Core Wired
Keyboard	Logitech G915 Wireless
Software	Windows 11 X64 PRO (build 23H2)
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Case	Old school Termalthake xaser III black with lots of noctua 80mm fans
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Motherboard	ASUS Prime Z390-A
Cooling	Noctua U12 Chromax
Memory	GSKill 2x16 GB modules @ 3200mhz
Video Card(s)	ASUS/NVIDIA rtx 4070 12 GB
Storage	Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB
Display(s)	Lenovo 23" 1920x1080p--it refuses to die
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Audio Device(s)	Built-in w/Creative Gigaworks T 40 series !! speakers
Power Supply	EVGA SuperNova G2 Gold 650 watts
Mouse	Logitech G300 wired
Keyboard	Razer Huntsman mini RGB w/optical switches
Software	Windows 10 \| Windows 11 Insiders Beta channel \| separate drives
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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, 110/95/110, PBO +150Mhz, CO -7,-7,-20(x6),
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Cooling	LOBO + Laing DDC 1T Plus PWM + Corsair XR5 280mm + 2x Arctic P14
Memory	32GB G.Skill FlareX 3200c14 @3800c15
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Storage	2TB Adata SX8200 Pro
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