Best old PC hardware still in frontline service?

[Jacky60]

Just upgraded to Dell u2718M and it really is very noticeably better than my trusty cheap Hanns G 281 monitor. As I perused my desk and recent upgrades I asked myself what hardware has really served me above and beyond the call of duty in my quest for digital gaming supremacy. The answer screams out..it's not my ancient speakers (Videologic Scirrocco) which I know have been superseded by newer models but rather it's a MS Forcefeedback 2 joystick that has soldiered on faultlessly through more than ten years of trouble free service and is still as far as I'm aware about the best there is. The only other hardware on or under my desk more than five years old is my MS Sidewinder mouse. Can anyone name similarly timeless hardware that reverses the signs of ageing?


Moved to General Hardware since this is not VC&G related.

-Moderator Rvenger

 

[Sohaltang]

I have an IBM model M keyboard from about 1994 at work. Love it

 

[CropDuster]

Dell 2001fp that I just replaced with a 2312hm and my thrust master hotas cougar both saw 10 year's of service. My g5 mouse is going strong still too.

 

[Deders]

Just retired a ten year old 160GB maxtor drive in favour of a 2TB RE4, but to be fair it was only there for storing Flacs.

Come to think of it my keyboard is even older:

still using PS2

 

[TreVader]

I have some SATA cables that have been going on strong for 10+ years. Also an optical drive and IDE cables too.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

IBM Model M representing.

(2 1991 versions,and a 1995 Model M.)

 

[SolMiester]

The HP server in my sig is still rocking on HOSTing my Plex and Dev systems, from circa 2006

 

[nwo]

My old socket A sempron (2400+?) & MSI nforce 2 mobo still boots up on an 80GB IDE Maxtor HDD and 512mb of Geil ddr400 RAM, video card is ATI x800xl. Used it as a trusty Source (day of defeat and counter-strike) server about a decade ago.

It collects dust now but still brings back a lot of great memories. My DODS server was consistently in the top 5 rankings in terms of popularity even though it was only a 24 slot since I had insufficient upload speed and would often get horrid lag spikes when I would overload the upload speed :whiste:

 

[mojothehut]

IBM Aptiva from 1996-97 ish?
AMD K5 166mhz, 8mb ram.
2gb hd, which I later added a 5gb to.
But my favorite piece..
Voodoo3 3000 PCI

Originally came with win95, but I upgraded it to 98se at some point. I enjoy Quake Glide on it, yay 3dfx!

 

[tidy]

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[row]

abit av8 socket 939 - amd fx 53 - geforce 6800 ultra - western digital 10k 74gb raptors x2 raid 0 - corsair xms 1gb x4 ddr sdram (pc3200) - zalman reserator fanless watercooling - creative audigy 4 pro - coolermaster wave case

maybe not that old, 2004, but for a high end gaming station (in it's day) it has passed the test of time. one of the most amazing things is that the zalman's water pump has run almost continuously for 10 years.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I have an IBM model M keyboard from about 1994 at work. Love it

*high five bro* (Model M13 and Logitech G700)

 

[ShadowVVL]

running an old pentium 3 ,pentium 4 and 2 939 althon64 dualcores

I still run my old 20gb seagate IDE its served me for 14 years now.
Have a few maxtors and seagates from early 2000s that i uses off and on.
Oldest one that still works is an old Japanese drive from 1996,but I retired it a few years ago.

Only gpu I have is an old radeon, I think its a x1300 with a passive cooler.

The key board I use is an old dell keyboard from 2002.
My mouse is an hp optical from 2005.

So yeah I still use old machines and parts! I have only lost 1 drive, a wd 320gb passport which clicks then crashes.

 

[gx_saurav]

Using a 6 year old XBOX 360 controller with my PC. Still working strong.

 

[zebrax2]

A 10+ yr old no name plastic dome keyboard that i've used as my main keyboard for 6+ yrs and still use every time my new keyboard croaks.

 

[mfenn]

I'm still using a Cambridge Soundworks 2.1 speaker set that I bought back in 2002. Coax S/PDIF input FTW.

 

[MongGrel]

Heh I don't think speakers count, I have some old Kenwood 777z's on the HTPC from 1981.



But maybe they do, still comp related.

In that case have some Antec Lansing 2.1 ones similar from around 1995 running on the other HTPC.

They still sound really good for their age.

:thumbsup:

You're the moderator so know best of course.

 

[ztraver91]

Still have a Microsoft Sidewinder mouse from 2007. 0 faults and works flawlessly.