What is your oldest working cpu

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halley

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had a s754 venice lying around, gave it away to my friend.

at the moment it would be the turion in my laptop :)

I'm working with an AMD 4800, a Turion (~1.7ghz) in a Dell laptop and an Intel Pentium (~1.9ghz) in an IBM Thinkpad. I guess the 4800 is probably the oldest. It has been running 24/7 for more than 2 years. Got abused the most.
 

thescreensavers

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some 600mhz P3, once it opens firefox in Ubuntu it works pretty damn well, youtube audio works fine but the video is choppy ;O
 

rancherlee

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Still got an Athlon 700/Radeon 64mb combo that is still used when friends come over to play AOE 2 and Quake 3...... It still does those just fine running 1024x786. Hell, it even runs UT 2K3 at 800x600 resonably well.
 

masterbm

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Well my oldest cpu in current everday use is my q6600 but since it runs 3.8 ghz is aslo my fastest. I recently retired amd 64 3800 single core old file server/media server retires with 56,000 hrs of use still works. just not in current daily use. I aslo run web server with 2 single core 2.4 ghz xeon pentium 4 era cpu.
 
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venusiansky

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I've got 2x Pentium Pro 1MB (the predecessor to the Pentium II) sitting at my desk at work, but I ripped the core out of the one. I imagine the other still works, but I no longer have the mobo for it. People always ask me what it is.
 

Indus

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Running a P3 800mhz with an ATI 9600 on a HT pc lol.. using the DVI output.. yes I upgraded the video card from a GF2 GTS which held me good from 2000 to 2005.
 

MagickMan

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In my sig. Still works, just like my 25 year old Sony. They don't make them like they used to......

Wow, the old 5V P60 (yeah, 5V). Back when I was working at Sears selling PCs I watched one these things ignite and char the inside of the case. It was a Packard Bell, so it wasn't a huge loss.
 

taltamir

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a have lots of older fully functional parts that I am not running because I have no use for them.
the oldest that i am actively using is an Athlon64 X2 @2ghz... an energy efficient model. I use it for my fileserver
 

OVerLoRDI

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The only two machines I ever had that weren't socketed was a 386SX and a 486SLC. I do vaguely remember some Intel 486SX chips also being QFP-style soldered on chips too, but none I owned.

I had an 800mhz Duron that was solder straight on to the board. Don't know where I got it from.
 

Golgatha

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I have a Pentium 4 3.06Ghz running Win2k and still gets occasional usage as a retro gaming computer.
 

GTaudiophile

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Currently in use:

Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz Northwood: JAN 2002 (oldest)
Intel Pentium M 1.5 Ghz Dothan: JUN 2004
AMD Sempron 64 2800+ 1.6Ghz Palermo: FEB 2005
AMD Opteron 170 2.0Ghz Denmark: JUN 2006
Intel Core2Quad Q9550 2.83Ghz Yorkfield: JUN 2009 (newest)
 

kalrith

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P3 500 MHz. Been running 24/7 since it was bought new and still going strong :)
 

Atreus21

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My brother is using my previous machine, which is running an old FX-60, and my little sister is using the predecessor to that machine, which is running an even older Athlon XP 3200+.
 

SniperSlap

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PIII 1GHz on a CUV-4X motherboard. Still chugging away as a home server.

I loved this system the day I got it and it's still pretty decent. I always knew the Pentium 3 CPUs were little miracles.
After all, Intel went back to them for inspiration on the Cores did they not? ;)