how old is your computer?

[act]

6 years old, caked in dirt, grime, and filled with cigarette ash. Running already low-quality parts, but it's still kicking just fine.

[Votterbin]

2 and a half years old; just stuck a 3060 in it and I intend to upgrade everything else this year. 

[Murdoch]

Just added this to the collection. Case probably dates to late 80s, maybe 1991 at the latest. The case style I would more likely associate with 286s with the big thick power switch on the side and 5.25 inch floppy drive (complete with forgotten pirated DOS 5.0 disc inside) so that makes me think it was likely a late 80s 386 which at the time here in New Zealand would have not been cheap. PC Direct was an early builder and supplier of PCs here in New Zealand, circa 1989 - 1998 so this was likely one of their earliest builds judging by the case style. Very little information about the company survives online except that they were bought out by Gateway in 1998. This is similar to PC General, who made the first computers both halves of my family owned. They were everywhere in the 90s and yet startlingly little information survives online.

 

Anyway. The CPU is actually a Pentium, an upgrade likely done late 1995 as the BIOS ROM bares that date. Actually boots to BIOS screen but doesn't even try to seek floppies, most likely due to the RTC battery being long dead. Unfortunately there's no standard CMOS battery. There appears to be replacement RTC modules online that use standard batteries which I will have to order in to see if I can cajole the old girl to life.

 

So do I win oldest computer?

Edited January 19, 2023 by Murdoch

[Wavy]

Got my laptop on Christmas 2020, so 2 years.

[Stroggman]

On 1/14/2023 at 10:20 PM, Doom_Dude said:

My computer is 7 years old.

 

Windows 10

i5-6600

16GB Ram

Geforce 1060

Dual 27" Monitors.

 

I haven't upgraded anything since, except I bought the 2nd monitor last year.

My rig has a Geforce 1070 and everything else is similar to yours and I have no need to build another one

[BerserkerNoir]

My computer is a Dell Optiplex 9020 sff from 2014...
So yeah its dated, around 7-8 years old.

[Stroggman]

On 1/14/2023 at 10:20 PM, Doom_Dude said:

My computer is 7 years old.

 

Windows 10

i5-6600

16GB Ram

Geforce 1060

Dual 27" Monitors.

 

I haven't upgraded anything since, except I bought the 2nd monitor last year.

Oh and I didn't tweak out Win 10 and go nuts, just installed driver

Edited January 19, 2023 by Stroggman

[Capellan]

It'll be 9 years old in August. 

[Steve D]

Mine's an HP desktop from 2014 or 2015, because I like to wait a year or so after a new CPU debuts -- Core i7 4770 in this case -- before I buy a machine housing it. I saved even more money by purchasing a refurbished unit from ebay, and  the specs were so solid that it's served more or less flawlessly since then. The only upgrade in all this time is the 1060 that replaced the old 420.

 

I'm starting to feel the desire for a new machine, though, so before long I'll probably buy one and then use this puppy as a combo Linux box and Amiga emulator.

[Mayomancer]

My current PC will be a year old next month, so pretty new. My previous one was 5 years old when I upgraded. I'm still using the same graphics card though because, you know.

[Kyka]

Mine is a upper mid-range machine, 7 years old, except graphics card which is 5 years old.

[Ordon]

mine is almost 1 year old

[Norb]

My laptop is like 8 years old I think

 

CPU Intel Core i5

GPU Nvidia Geforce 940mx

RAM 16 gb

 

it's shit, i know, but hey atleast it ran Doom Eternal on 30 fps with all graphics options on low

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

I think I got mine around 2015 - 2016 with some minor upgrades to graphics card, ssd and RAM along the way.

[Garlichead]

My gaming computer was built around 2018.

[HadleyFlame]

MSI GE60 2PE APACHE PRO

8 years almost I think. It's a laptopssaurus :)!

[ChaseC7527]

state of the art 2014 technology.

[Martin Howe]

On 1/19/2023 at 2:24 AM, Murdoch said:

 Unfortunately there's no standard CMOS battery. There appears to be replacement RTC modules online that use standard batteries which I will have to order in to see if I can cajole the old girl to life.

 

Ouch; that looks like an ODIN 12C887A 'Dallas RTC' clone on the lower-middle left. Even before I googled it, I guessed what it was because my late 1990s AlphaServer has a Dallas DS1287; at least the DEC mainboard RTC chip is socketed. One of those modern modules (chip, battery holder) from an EU supplier cost £20 to get in the UK. No idea how much or where down south :( They don't all use CR2032s but some use smaller 3V batteries that are harder to obtain in stores.

Edited March 3, 2023 by Martin Howe

[Murdoch]

7 hours ago, Martin Howe said:

Ouch; that looks like an ODIN 12C887A 'Dallas RTC' clone on the lower-middle left. Even before I googled it, I guessed what it was because my late 1990s AlphaServer has a Dallas DS1287; at least the DEC mainboard RTC chip is socketed. One of those modern modules (chip, battery holder) from an EU supplier cost £20 to get in the UK. No idea how much or where down south :( They don't all use CR2032s but some use smaller 3V batteries that are harder to obtain in stores.

 

Yeah that sounds about right based on my initial research. 

[pcorf]

Win 10 Laptop = 3 years old

Win 8 Laptop = 8 years old

Win XP Desktop PC = 11 years old

Win 7 Desktop PC = 12 years old

Win XP Desktop PC = 19 years old

[Uncle 80]

Self-built PC that was "semi high end" in 2010. Motherboard failed one and a half years later, got a new mb and a new flash drive for the system, it's been running fine since. So, thirteen years. Monitor from 2005, keyboard from 1998.

[Xerenogan]

Most of my computers are from the mid aughts.
My main laptop is less than a year old, while my oldest is a Packard Bell from he late 80s.
My most storied computer is from the mid 90s. I don't know the brand, and I'm not home right now to go look. It's a beige tower that watched over me as I sorted my text adventure game collection while I waited for the world to end late night December 1999. I can't bring myself to put a new motherboard in it. I want that scsi for the floppy drive.

[roadworx]

damn, this thread is still going?

 

On 1/18/2023 at 7:24 PM, Murdoch said:

Just added this to the collection. Case probably dates to late 80s, maybe 1991 at the latest. The case style I would more likely associate with 286s with the big thick power switch on the side and 5.25 inch floppy drive (complete with forgotten pirated DOS 5.0 disc inside) so that makes me think it was likely a late 80s 386 which at the time here in New Zealand would have not been cheap. PC Direct was an early builder and supplier of PCs here in New Zealand, circa 1989 - 1998 so this was likely one of their earliest builds judging by the case style. Very little information about the company survives online except that they were bought out by Gateway in 1998. This is similar to PC General, who made the first computers both halves of my family owned. They were everywhere in the 90s and yet startlingly little information survives online.

 

Anyway. The CPU is actually a Pentium, an upgrade likely done late 1995 as the BIOS ROM bares that date. Actually boots to BIOS screen but doesn't even try to seek floppies, most likely due to the RTC battery being long dead. Unfortunately there's no standard CMOS battery. There appears to be replacement RTC modules online that use standard batteries which I will have to order in to see if I can cajole the old girl to life.

 

So do I win oldest computer?

no, you don't, because i said main computer you frick )))):<

 

in terms of computers in general though, yeah, you probably do. rn my old computer that i use to play 90s games is a pentium ii from 1998, so...

Edited March 16, 2023 by roadworx

[scalliano]

Main (gaming) PC: less than 2 months.

 

Secondary (music/modding/editing) PC: just over 2months, hastily cobbled together from spare parts that date back to 2020.

 

Yeah, my trusty old rig finally popped at the beginning of January, part of the reason I haven't been around much.

[Remilia Scarlet]

Depends.  My desktop is technically a continuation of a computer I bought in 2003, just continually upgraded piece-by-piece over the years.  There might be a cable or screw left in it that's still from the original machine.

Otherwise, I last did a major upgrade in 2021, and a minor one last year.

 

 

My main laptop is probably about 4 years old.  I have no plans to upgrade it anytime soon.  My PineBook Pro is less than a year old.

My TI-99/4a is older than me.

Edited March 16, 2023 by Remilia Scarlet

[leejacksonaudio]

I'm doing most of my stuff on my laptop nowadays while I recuperate. It dates from June of 2021, although the order was placed back in May of 2021. It's a Sager NP9672M-G0 Notebook, with an Intel i9-10850K CPU, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU with 6GB GDDR6 Video Memory. It was originally running Windows 10 Professional, which I've since upgraded to Windows 11 Professional.

 

To date, I've found very little to gripe about with it. Sager has put together a rock-solid laptop for me. It was expensive, at $2,844.00, but it's been worth the price of purchase so far. It's taken some abuse and has followed me around to several hospitals without complaining. If I had the money, I'd buy another Sager again.

[act]

On 3/16/2023 at 4:26 PM, Remilia Scarlet said:

Depends.  My desktop is technically a continuation of a computer I bought in 2003, just continually upgraded piece-by-piece over the years.  There might be a cable or screw left in it that's still from the original machine.

What kind of like, Orthodox-tier succession you got going on here like

[Remilia Scarlet]

59 minutes ago, act said:

What kind of like, Orthodox-tier succession you got going on here like

Nice, I got a Pentium 4 in an Alienware case.  Time to play Doom 3.

Hmm, case kinda sucks.  Time to get a new case.

I need more storage.  *Buys more storage*  And a video card *buys a new video card*.

Man I need more RAM.  *Buys RAM*

This is getting agonizingly slow.  *Buys a motherboard, CPU, and RAM, continues to use old parts, adds more storage*

Crap, power supply died.  *Buys a new power supply*.

Hmm, time for a new video card.  *Buys a new video card*

Sweet, money! *Buys a new CPU, motherboard, case, and RAM, as well as an SSD, continues to re-use parts that aren't bad*

Repeat until Computer of Theseus.  It has never been 100% new since 2003, just continually upgraded piece by piece.  As I said, I think some of the case screws and possibly a cable or two are still original.  It would still have the original hard drive as well (it still works; I was using it for my swap partition and temporary space for a long time), but it's IDE, and I didn't want to mess with it after around 2021.

[Jakub Majewski]

I've had a computer since I was a child, and over the course of time, I would swap its components for newer ones multiple times. Begs the question at which point you consider the computer a new one, different from the old one, given that there never was a situation where ALL the components had to be swapped at once. Ship of Theseus, pretty much.