Longest you've ever had a computer last?

[DominionSeraph]

13 years, most of them under 10 hour a day operation for my PIII 700/Abit BH6. (Started off as a Celery + TNT, got upgraded to P3 + Geforce 2 GTS, then made its way to my dad's business for the next 10 years.)

 

[cubby1223]

My wife is still using one of my old Q9650 gaming computers, I forget how old it is, and my sister-in-law still uses an even older Q6600 one I sold here cheap just to cruise the net and light gaming one still.

I rebuilt that one a bit, but that old ASUS Mobo and Q6600 has been kicking along a long time now.

That's still newer and faster than the systems I take in and flip with a Win7 license to people!

One business I work for had a 386 system still running up until a few years ago. Got to the point where you couldn't pull data off of the system anymore, far too big for floppies, & could never get the hard drive set up correctly in bioses of new hardware to pull info off.

 

[mfenn]

1996? :hmm:

Seriously. That's some pre-production model considering the T60 was introduced in 2006!

 

[homebrew2ny]

The HP 26'' all in one touchsmart i bought my wife about 5 or 6 years ago is still going strong. It is been up 24/7 for most of the time also, however i plan on replacing it in the next few months...

 

[IndyColtsFan]

A server I built in 2007 has been running 24/7 since then - it is based on a Q6600 and is now my secondary server and network DVR.

I have an overclocked Pentium Pro workstation built in 1997 that still boots.

My oldest system with a hard drive is an Amiga 2000 with a Quantum 52 MB SCSI drive (circa early 90s) that still boots fine. I have some older systems that still work but they don't have hard drives.

 

[inachu]

I do not have them hooked up but I have a timex sinclair and a c-64 and a TI-99 4/A pc in my closet.

I would love to get my hands on a Amiga 500.

 

[wangotango]

I do not have them hooked up but I have a timex sinclair and a c-64 and a TI-99 4/A pc in my closet.

I would love to get my hands on a Amiga 500.

I just fixed one with a leaky battery. I replaced some caps while at it. Great hardware and design. The guy is 40 and he loves that thing.

 

[nemesismk2]

i still have my atari 1040 stfm which i bought new in 1990 which is in fine working condition

 

[Gman109]

My Commodore 64(128 actually but wtf) lasted the longest, I had it from 8th grade right through to graduation of high school - did all of my reports and such on SPeedScript, a decent WP that had a spell checker and thesaurus!

Since my first PC-CLone, an early 286, it's been a constant stream of upgrades yearly, sometimes monthly, ever since.

 

[DigDog]

i changed my E6600 C2D (bought new at launch) about 5 months ago.

 

[inf1nity]

https://cdn.mediacru.sh/RHduhHw8LVIP.png

Built in Feb 2008, worked amazing till last year.

Now i think its on its way out. If anyone can help me your more than welcome. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2401128

 

[tynopik]

i have XTs that still work

what do i win?

 

[Davidh373]

My Family's Dell Dimension with a PIII lasted 13 years before the HDD failed and we chucked it. an HP... M6000n series replacement we have is going on 8 now.

 

[ithehappy]

I generally use all the desktops for more than three years. But the longest is still the C2D E6300 (could be wrong about the model) which I had used for four years and three months. However I keep upgrading the GPU every two to two and a half years. I started the C2D with 7600 GT, then moved to 9800 GT.

I am using the i7 950 now, it will be full four years too this December. I started this 9800 GT, then moved to GTX 560 Ti, and now 580 Lightning or something.

So from 2002 till now, I have used four desktops, the Pentium 4 back in 2002, the Pentium 4 HT back in 2006, then the C2D and now the i7

My next upgrade will be on March-April next year.

 

[jhu]

Pentium !!! laptop circa 1997. It runs NetBSD 6 without any problems.

PowerMac G4 (PPC 7400) circa 1999. It's running Debian 7. No issues.

 

[jhu]

That's still newer and faster than the systems I take in and flip with a Win7 license to people!

One business I work for had a 386 system still running up until a few years ago. Got to the point where you couldn't pull data off of the system anymore, far too big for floppies, & could never get the hard drive set up correctly in bioses of new hardware to pull info off.

Oh 386. You know you're in trouble when a CPU no longer has Linux support…

 

[evident]

I still use an 8088 at work, seriously

 

[jhu]

I still use an 8088 at work, seriously

Big deal. I still have my Busicom calculator with the Intel 4004. Gets used daily.

 

[evident]

Big deal. I still have my Busicom calculator with the Intel 4004. Gets used daily.

there always got to be someone topping my epeen.

 

[jhu]

there always got to be someone topping my epeen.

No worries. There's still these guys and their IBM 402.