Discussion Oldest Hardware you Daily Drove from 2020-Today?

[USAFRet]

And currently, my QNAP NAS, used 24/7, is from Jan 2017.
90+ TB in or attached.

 

[stonecarver]

Have a 1366 systems with.

Xeon 5680, 48 Gb memory ddr3, Nvidia Titan 6 Gb

x3 Xeon 5680 48 Gb memory ddr3. Nvidia Titan X Pascals

Xeon 5690, 32 Gb registered ddr3, Nvidia GTX 690

Duel Xeon 5670 x 2, 48 Gb registered ddr3 memory , Nvidia GTX 780 Ti

x2 Xeon E5-2690, 128 Gb registered ddr3 memory, Nvidia GTX 690/Nvidia GTX 970

Duel Xeon 5580 x 2, 192 Gb memory. GTX 1070

All hooked up with KVM + 3 monitors.

AMD XP 3200+ CPU, 2 Gb memory, Nvidia 6800 GT AGP port
Just some of the older vintage over the hill junk I have that still kicks.

 

[USAFRet]

Discussion - What's the oldest and/or cheesiest system you have Win 10 installed on?

Mine is a 2009 era Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955 Celeron 900, 2.2GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD. The only upgrade from stock was a warranty replacement of the original 160GB HDD to the current 250GB. Currently v1903, Build 18362.295 https://www.cnet.com/products/toshiba-satellite-l305-s5955/specs/...

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[Crazyy8]

Wouldn't you need two CPUs, as each CPU only has 3 memory channels?

X58 LGA 1366 Intel magic

 

[Crazyy8]

I think the question was because you said 26 GB, which is an extremely unlikely combo. 8 + 4 + 4 + 8 is 24, not 26, hence the confusion.

Eh, I can't remember the exact numbers. I use 2 computers, a more modern one and my hunk of trash. Give me a couple days when I can get to my other computer and I can tell you guys the exact memory specs.

 

[Order 66]

Discussion - What's the oldest and/or cheesiest system you have Win 10 installed on?

Mine is a 2009 era Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955 Celeron 900, 2.2GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD. The only upgrade from stock was a warranty replacement of the original 160GB HDD to the current 250GB. Currently v1903, Build 18362.295 https://www.cnet.com/products/toshiba-satellite-l305-s5955/specs/...

forums.tomshardware.com

That thread is locked, but somebody mentioned installing Windows 3.0A on a DSI, which reminds me that someone installed Windows XP on a switch. (not that I would ever do this myself unless I had a sudden urge to play Microsoft solitaire.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

My system at work that’s my daily driver is a Dell optiplex of some kind with 16gb ddr4 and an i7 6700. Used to take forever when it had a hard drive. Since my boss let me install a 1tb ssd(I work in the it dept), it really perked that system up. I want to say that pc is from about 2016. What’s kind of a shame is that it won’t support windows 11. Otherwise I could upgrade to 32gb of ram and toss on windows 11 and be good for a while as far as a work pc.

I know however for some of our older hardware we help a Bible college and have donated some older systems to them. Especially since they use gsuite, looking at trying some of the older systems with say an i3, 8gb ram, and upgrading them to a cheap ssd and trying to run Chrome OS Flex on them to get a little more life from them. As far as being systems for the library if they’d work with it, it would be a nice lease on life. We do have some older surface studio systems from about 2016 if anyone remembers those with the high resolution touch screen. Would really like to try one of those in there. Even though the hardware is getting older I can’t imagine chrome os flex having high requirements, and the screen is still a nice looking display.

 

[Dj0gany]

I am asking what is the oldest hardware you have used daily as a main PC from 2020 to now. I am running a Xeon X5680 in an EVGA X58 SLI3 with 26GB of DDR3 1066-1333 and a GTX 1650 in a Cooler Master Centurion 5.

Started with a Lenovo Thinkcentre Edge72 office PC that came with a dual core i3 3240 and 8gb of ram, slowly upgraded it part to part to what i have now

Edit: Bought a R9 380 4gb for $50 back in december 2019, ran everything i put on it, and paired nicely with the rest of the system.

 

[hedwar2011]

so, essentially, each channel can have up to two slots.

Correct

 

[g-unit1111]

I used my i7-5820 rig (built in 2012) for like 9 years until the motherboard finally died and I upgraded to a Ryzen 2600 in 2018.