Post your old CPU which is still being used as a main PC on a daily basis.

[DeathReborn]

Oldest running CPU's are Dual P3 1GHz (Slot 1) in a converted workstation running as a Firewall.

I will replace it next year with a Pentium G3258 as I already have a MSI Z87-G41 motherboard sitting in a cupboard doing nothing.

 

[mizzou]

Oldest current CPU is an Athlon II X2 250.

We had Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (2.9Ghz) in use up until a couple months ago. Had an old 80GB IDE HDD and ran Windows 7 just fine. Flash games peaked it at around 100% usage though and people were complaining that it felt like a space heater underneath the desk. Ended up replacing it with an Athlon II X2 250 which was a little faster and much cooler.

The motherboard for the 5600+ ended up getting fried when a screw fell behind the mobo tray and shorted something, otherwise I probably would have used it for a file server.

Yeah my wife's computer is using my old x2 555be I believe. That was a SOLID chip!

 

[ummduh]

My HTPC is running a Pentium e2160 @ 2.8? 3.0? Not even really sure, it's been through a few motherboards and I forget what this one is at. Had to pick up a <$50 graphics card just to get hdmi out.

My Co worker runs a sempron 3400+ I believe, single core and 1GB ram. It's absolutely frustrating to work on.

My mom still has a freaking Umax C600with a 603ev@240MHz! I don't think she really uses it anymore and its Mac OS 8.1, she got an iPad a couple years ago and I think it just takes up space.

 

[MongGrel]

X5650 @ 4.3 on the main.

 

[Spydermag68]

The oldest computer that I had running ever was a AMD 486 100. It was still working back in 2011.

 

[Captante]

The oldest machine I actually use on a near-daily basis is an X2 6400+ with 8gb DDR2-800, Asus NForce Crosshair 590 MB, GTX-550ti & 4 TB's HD storage. It dual-boots XP-Pro and Vista Ultimate 64-bit. Vista runs off of a 128gb Samsung 830 and its actually a decent PC even for most newer games.

The oldest working PC I own is an Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton) running XP-Pro off a 4x 160gb RAID 0+1, Asus NForce 2 MB, 2 GB PC-100 DDR and a Radeon 9800 Pro.

 

[Ranulf]

Mostly retired now to playing old games is my Thoroughbred 2100 (1.7ghz stock) system listed below, in a nice silver lianli aluminum case. I built that in 2003. It lasted until about late 2007 when I went with an intel conroe chip.

I have a 9 year old Pentium M 1.7ghz laptop I still use with linux from time to time but my daily driver computers are about 4 years old or newer now. I have an old 1ghz Duron powered system gathering dust, I should fire it up sometime and see if it works.

 

[JM Popaleetus]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2335636

Replace that 920 with an x5650, available on eBay for like $65 shipped.

Thank you for this idea. Was looking at getting an i7-970 or 980x.

But this is much cheaper and arguably better .

 

[MongGrel]

It is.

Just takes some tweaking.

 

[dragantoe]

xeon l5639, still hard to beat!

 

[Zodiark1593]

A Core i5-460M.

Seems to do just fine with 99% of stuff I throw at my PC, including some 3D.

 

[MongGrel]

xeon l5639, still hard to beat!

Have one of those L5639 I've been too lazy to put in my HTPC laying on the desk here, the X5650 is better these days for the money.

But won't knock em.

 

[mojothehut]

Well it's not quite my "main" pc.

But I have two old rigs still running downstairs.

#1: This rig serves no purpose other than still being able to run. It was my first computer!
AMD K5 166mhz
16mb ram
2gb hd
Some 2mb onboard video D:
Win95
#2
AMD T-Bird 1.1ghz
256mb PC133 ram
20gb hd
Voodoo 3 3500. I use this for old Glide games..mmm Glide.... :awe:
Win98se

 

[dragantoe]

Have one of those L5639 I've been too lazy to put in my HTPC laying on the desk here, the X5650 is better these days for the money.

But won't knock em.

yeah they're better if you can get them at the same price or lower, but I got the l5639 before the thread knew about the x5650

 

[ArisVer]

My main rig is listed in my sig and my backup is a single core Athlon 1600+ running 3 linux distros which I haven't started for almost 6 months now.

 

[Humpy]

E6300 Pentium dual core, SSD, and windows 7. It's been running pretty much non-stop since I put it together (2008?) and no plans to upgrade.

I also still use an IBM T60 with an SSD and W7. It works better than new.

 

[jmartin357]

I bought the i7 960 in 2k9 with the thought that I'd probably move on fairly soon, maybe grab the 6 core version when it came out.

5 years later, still no great need to upgrade...

 

[dragantoe]

I bought the i7 960 in 2k9 with the thought that I'd probably move on fairly soon, maybe grab the 6 core version when it came out.

5 years later, still no great need to upgrade...

x5650 is what you need

 

[jmartin357]

x5650 is what you need

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-231-_-Product

well, it would be an upgrade. maybe not the most optimal allocation of dollars, but I like how you're thinking.

 

[SPBHM]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-231-_-Product

well, it would be an upgrade. maybe not the most optimal allocation of dollars, but I like how you're thinking.

ebay is like 10% of this price or less.

 

[ehume]

My wife's Dell 530s started demanding a boot disk the other day. We had to push a key to get it to boot. I did some routing around in BIOS, and it wouldn't hold a setting. Ah, I thought. Bad mb battery. I keep spares, so i took her machine downstairs and removed the CPU heatsink fan. I used a vacuum to suck the dust from the heatsink, then used a DataVac to blow out all the other dust. Replaced the CR2032. The old one registered flat zero on the battery tester. Wow -- we sucked it dry!

Back in action as my wife's main machine. I just now checked its system screen: 2.53GHz C2D E7200 with 4B RAM. I swapped out the 500GB HD for a 500GB Samsung 840 SSD. Even though its on SATA II, the thing flies.

I offered to build her something new, but she prefers her little speed demon -- especially since I replaced the battery. What did we get? Something like 7 years on that thing? Can't complain.

 

[SlowSpyder]

My dad is using an old Pentium D 805 based machine I handed down to him. He checks email and his stock quotes a couple times a week, that's about it. I'd be surprised if the machine was on more than an hour a week, but that's all he does so he hardly needs anything current.

 

[Sharkyx1]

I put my old 965 BE in my brothers computer, might be replacing it with a 3258 if i see a good sale

 

[Noya21]

My only PC is the desktop I built in late 2008 with that Microsoft Bing cashback deal.

Q8200 (ugh) @ 3.15ghz via 445fsb
Gigabyte P45-UD3P
8gb (2gb x 4) Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 (limiting the OC...along with the x7 multi)
Xigmatek 120mm cooler...s1283 I think
550w OCZ modular PSU (previous Corsair 450vx)
GTX460 (previous 9800gtx)
4 HDDs
Cheap Rosewill case

I don't do much encoding or play the newest games. But the old Unreal 3 based FPS I play must be on the lowest settings at 1680x1050 to not dip to far into the 40's during smoky battles. I'm thinking of buying a $30'ish e8600 (and hitting 4.0ghz+) or a $65-70 Q9550 (and hitting 3.7ghz).

Or selling my mobo and ram for $100'ish and getting a deal on something modern this next month or two.

 

[Lorne]

I have 2 printers that are running 700Mhz PII with 256 megs of SRAM and windows NT
The rip servers are P4 1Ghz, 1gig DDR memory and win2K.
A mail server with a P1 300Mhz and 32megs pre Sram, Redhat is all I know about it.