Oldest component still used in your main gaming setup

What is it? Include things like the case and peripherals such as the monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers.

I personally can't answer this question since everything used now was bought at the same time (November 2009). Though if it's worth anything, my GPU arrived before anything else (9800 GT). :D

Sound Audigy 2, 2003ish

Dell Monitor 17inch LCD for $479, time flies right?

My Philips speakers, they're about 4 years old. Everything else is about 1 year old.

I've been re-using a couple of peripherals that border on being old junk; my keyboard belonged to a friend of mine and i'm sure that must have originally came with a pc she bought over 10 years ago. my mouse is an old-school microsoft one (ball-mouse) and the monitor i am currently using came with the very first pc i bought (crt).

getting a new monitor is my top priority and i have had my eye on one for a while now. unfortunately my refrigerator broke down not too long ago, and i replaced it using up most of my monitor budget :( my speakers, my case and everything inside my case is less then 2 years old, except for a pci tv-tuner card and a sata 80 gb hdd which i used to transfer files and now use for a little extra storage, both transferred from my previous pc.

2007 SP-500 power supply. If you count the case; Antec Sonata II from 2005.

I used 15 year old speakers. They came with a computer my dad bought that was a whopping 133mhz. I finally replaced them a little over a year ago.

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]12-13 year old IBM keyboard, I win. Honestly, its a very good keyboard, though it is a bit heavy.Duckman5

(its a 'KB-7993')

I used 15 year old speakers. They came with a computer my dad bought that was a whopping 133mhz. I finally replaced them a little over a year ago.

Fizzman

I am actually using speakers that came with my family computer that my dad bought 15 years ago. A pair of altec lansing speakers.

The computer they came with?

Pentium 133MHz

32MB EDO RAM

2.05GB HDD

8x CD-ROM

Diamond Stealth 3d 2MB

NEC 17" CRT

On this current PC.....

Carryovers from the previous PC:

Speakers

Pioneer DVD burner

Case

Keyboard

SB Audigy 2 Value

USB flash memory reader

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Carryovers from 2 PC generations back:

Mouse

Logitech joystick and driving wheel

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I do have a circa-1998 Hauppage WinTV PCI on another PC. But, that PC is currently in storage. We'll be bringing it back with us when we return from our roadtrip out west.

A few people were talking about using old sound cards, and this has interested me since i have an old pc with a sound blaster. Is a 7 year old sound card better than modern integrated? Would it be worth transferring it?

My Case (7 years old)

A few people were talking about using old sound cards, and this has interested me since i have an old pc with a sound blaster. Is a 7 year old sound card better than modern integrated? Would it be worth transferring it?

kraken2109

I'm not sure in all cases. I generally don't have too many problems with sound. But, Crysis would sometimes crash and burn at the very last Boss level when I used the built-in Realtek audio. There was no such problem when I used my SB Audigy 2 Value.

8600 GT Overclocked....I have it since 2006 (4 years), its run perfectly fine.

my psu from 2007-2008 ish still holding up great for a mystery brand (safe power 585 watt) it has a moderate 12v rail and has a neat-o brass finish on it as well as decent length cables and such.. and tbh if it can handle all i want and more i dont complain.

ghetto 500gb sata2 7200rpm hitachi hdd lol

Either my Klipsch Promedia speakers (I bought them used) or my Coolermaster Centurion 534 case. I've been using this case since 2007. It housed my Socket 939 system in it's later days, as well as my LGA 775 system, and now my AM3 system.

My 10 year old Hp keyboard.

My keyboard,mouse, and speakers are all 7 years old.

I got a 8 year old Dell keyboard from 3 computers ago that im using to type this. It still works great and whenever i see one of those $150 Logitech 'gaming' keyboards at a store, i have the overwhelming urge to puke.

No offence to anyone who owns one of the said 150 dollar keyboards.

Still using the TT Armor case from several years ago. Its gigantic though ( never have to worry about parts outgrowing the inside) and after cutting the stupid fin things off the front and modding the side and top for my chilled water i really dont see EVER changing until i have to when a new form factor comes out or something.

I also still have a Floppy drive installed. The drive itself has been used in every system i have built since i did my first build back in like 1995. Its sort of a sentimental thing.

My Asus PK5 Premium motherboard and Core2Duo E6850, still going well but can choke when I throw lots of stuff at them (not too often). Building a new PC very soon though...

Since I'm still using DDR2 (Bad choice since the board came with crossfire and I only use nvidia, didn't wanna spend extra for DDR3 too) A stick of 512mb would probably be the oldest (Have 2 2GB OCZ sticks from 09 in there.) Well my CD and DVD drive and WD 250GB drive would be just as old as them. Came from a Dell XPS 500 I got for my birthday. Huuuuuge waste of money, tried to tell my mother to let me build my own, but I was definitely grateful since it was my first gaming PC.

Can't wait to get a new 1TB WD hard drive. Even my external is filled up!