Who has TPU´s oldest pc still in use for daily task?

[Win98SE]

I got a Pentium MMX 200 and a ASUS Pentium Pro motherboard with 5 PCI and 3 ISA slots up in the attic somewhere. But daily I use a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop dual boot with a Pentium M. I could post with it here in Windows 98 SE up until last month.

 

[Melvis]

I have an Amiga 2000, Commodore 64, Socket A and Socket 939 systems I use now and again but not on a daily bases. I guess my oldest every day computer would be the X58 system in my sig.

 

[IRQ Conflict]

My specs.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

Toshiba Qosmio Vista laptop from 2006. Old huge giant ass relic with a beautiful 1440x900 screen lol

Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) 4gb DDR2 and dual Western Digital Caviar Black 320gb HDDs in raid 0. Nvidia Geforce 7600 Go

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I surf with a core 2 duo and game with X58.

Long live socket 1366......

 

[mastershake575]

My parents still use the same computer they got in 2008 and I don't see them replacing it anytime soon.

Every part in it is 10 years old. It's got an AMD phenom x4 processor with an nvidia geforce 8400gs. Powersupply is an antec earthwatts 380watt. Centurion 5 is the case which was a popular budget case from like 2005 to 2009ish.

 

[Readlight]

how it can be still alive 8400gs was a disaster to me. that way i currently haw amd video card.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

One day i will resurrect my skt939 X2 3800+

::EDIT::

I think it was one of the fastest 939 X2 3800+ @2.66Ghz over a decade ago on Guru3D around that time (I think i had the 3rd fastest, I lost first place to a Toledo X2 4200 or 4400. Second place went to a guy who had the same chip as me but just had a better chip over all for overclocking. Sadly the site i uploaded all my screenshots to is long been defunct and i cant find the thread or post where I posted my benchmarks on Guru3d

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I think many of you missed the "main PC" part in the op...

on this note the oldest I am around is a q6600 based system(was e4600 till yesterday i swapped it) owned for many years by my cousin as the house pc but now relegated to his kids main pc, they all have tablets now , i tried to tell them.

 

[natr0n]

My dad and brother still use their socket 939 systems(Both dual core/4gb ram) daily.

 

[Tomgang]

lovely to read all your comments. So even throw 2017 has been one of the bedst years when in comes to cpu releases in years from intel as well as AMD, its great that people still keep these oldies alive and not just throw them out. Keep using these oldies, they deserves it for the reason that they are not giving up on you and keep on working, so you shut not give up on then eather.

 

[EntropyZ]

When I am selling off my components during an upgrade I take out my Sempron 3800+ w/ GA-M61PM-S2 just to browse the Internet, doing anything on a single-core is very slow, but feasible. The laptop of my choice is an IBM ThinkPad T41, which overheats and shuts down all the time when I try to play something like F-22 Lightning 3.

I have a bunch of P3 era stuff around but none of it is usable until I re-cap every motherboard.

 

[Keullo-e]

Damn, I got my 7600K in September 2017. Tho GTX 980 is pretty old for a daily gaming..

Sorry for being too lazy to crop, CrystalDiskInfo is in Finnish so don't wonder that.

 

[krusha03]

My dad still uses his old P4 laptop with 512MB Ram from 2003 running Windows XP in classic theme even thou I bought him a new laptop couple of years back. He thinks windows 7 is too much eye candy and not piratical. If only he would see windows 10

 

[Keullo-e]

My dad still uses his old P4 laptop with 512MB Ram from 2003 running Windows XP in classic theme even thou I bought him a new laptop couple of years back. He thinks windows 7 is too much eye candy and not piratical. If only he would see windows 10

W7 today is like WXP couple years ago... Some people just uses it and won't upgrade.

I've used W10Pro since the release day.

 

[Disparia]

Not my daily driver, but the kids use a Xeon X5660 (2010) and my previous system with an FX-8120 (2011).

 

[John Naylor]

I'm a bit late ... about 14 months ago I retired a $6,400 Wang APC w/ 640 x 480 screen that I bought in 1985 with an 8088 proocessor when all the peons out there were working on lowly 8086. It had a structural engineering program (DOS ofcourse) that we used to design all the home sun rooms / greenhouses for the IS's largest company in that market niche.

 

[Keullo-e]

I'm a bit late ... about 14 months ago I retired a $6,400 Wang APC w/ 640 x 480 screen that I bought in 1985 with an 8088 proocessor when all the peons out there were working on lowly 8086. It had a structural engineering program (DOS ofcourse) that we used to design all the home sun rooms / greenhouses for the IS's largest company in that market niche.

You should have tried this!

 

[LightningJR]

Parent's daily driver is a Q8200, 4GB RAM and a GTX 460 SE. My brother still uses an AMD Phenom II X6 as well as my friend. My 2500K is getting there in age (EDIT: Just checked Newegg, I bought my 2500K Jan 4th 2012, so it's over 6 years old). Probably wont upgrade until DDR4 comes down in price.

 

[hat]

I'm a bit late ... about 14 months ago I retired a $6,400 Wang APC w/ 640 x 480 screen that I bought in 1985 with an 8088 proocessor when all the peons out there were working on lowly 8086. It had a structural engineering program (DOS ofcourse) that we used to design all the home sun rooms / greenhouses for the IS's largest company in that market niche.

That's interesting how stuff like that could be run on that kind of hardware. Even a netburst celeron is light years ahead of that and good luck running AutoCAD with that...

 

[qubit]

Right, ignore my specs, as they need updating.

My current PCD (Personal Calculating Device) is actually a classic from 1888 - yes, the Wild West era. There's not many of those left nowadays, I tell you.

So, the main specs are a 3-bit CPU (Central Procedure Unit) running at 50-80Hz or so (not all that stable, depending on temperature), operating system is a really early version of Micros Windowing lol (version 0.001 I believe) 1.852 kilobyte "hard disc" - I think they actually made them out of shellac covered in magnetic-impregnated paper back then, running at 200rpm and some onboard graphics contraption I've never been able to identify. The PSU has to have a special inverter before it to work on modern British 240V mains electricity and was quite hard to source.

Browsing the modern internet with the built-in IEU (International Exploration Utensil) v.0001 is a bit of a challenge, but I get by just about.

The valves do take a while to warm up, especially those in the CPU I dare say. After I switch it on (crank handle on PSU getting a bit stiff now, with old age) I need to let it sit for at least 10 minutes. On the plus side, it warms the room up beautifully in the winter!

So, why do I use such an old PC? Sorry, PCD. Well, it's like people who restore classic cars and then drive around in them. Same sense of satisfaction.

 

[erocker]

Just a couple months ago I retired my old alignment machine at my shop which used a 486DX in it. All the data for various vehicle configurations were stored on 3.5" floppys and those were up to date as recently as 2011. Honestly it was simple and ran on DOS. Wasn't really too slow either once the data was read off the floppy disk, which took about 30 seconds.

 

[Norton]

I have a Dell Latitude D810 (new in 2005)- I bought in the 2008 and still use it to program PLC's at work. Has a Pentium M 1.73Ghz cpu/Radeon X300 gpu iirc

 

[jlewis02]

Still using my i7 930 system daily

 

[delshay]

I use a Acer Ferrari 1200 laptop for all internet access/posting. Carbon fiber top with ultra rare Kingston Ultra Low Latency DDR2 SODIMM (4-4-4-12 Timings). Its the only ever DDR2 SODIMM ever made with tight timings. Part Number KHX6400S2ULK/4G.

I also have a classic 939 (FX60) desktop with a 5.25 inch bay touchscreen LCD display for modern day gaming. I can display anything I want on this screen, Matrix Obital GTT38A. The goal of what I want to do with this screen is to control & display AMD display driver & show CPU/GPU/TEMP ect.