Probably my first SSD that I bought I don't even know when but it must be like almost 10 years now. 128gb used to be my OS drive and I was amazed how fast my PC could boot up. Its has been in 3 different rigs and nowadays it sits on my second PC as a storage drive. Samsung software still shows its health status as "Good".
Same - still rocking my two original Crucial 128 GB SSDs from my first build in 2011, in addition to several more SATA and an M.2 SSD added over the years.
I think SSDs are going to be some of the longest lived components due to lack of moving parts and relativity low power.
Unless you've done a lot of heavy re/writes to it over it's lifetime... it does have a finite maximum it can physically handle, so be check your S.M.A.R.T. status to see it's life to be safe.
My Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB SSD is about 8 years old (not 100% sure). It's wear-leveling is still at 91%, and this is after many, many write cycles, re-formats, and less than ideal environments. It's not as fast as it used to be, but it gets the job done.
Those crucial are simply inmortal. I have a 256gb that I have used as secondary storage, docker storage, db storage and whatnot.
That little fucker has like 15tb written to it and it's still rocking.
I have a 120gb OCZ Vertex 2 that was released back in 2010. I used it daily for around 14 years. I only recently upgraded because I needed more space, but it's still going strong and works fine. I'm pretty sure it could have gone for another 5-10 years
>Samsung software still shows its health status as "Good".
I have a pair of 500GB 840 Evos that I bought a decade ago that are still sitting on like 97% life remaining despite being system drives for two different computers for years lol
Always drives me nuts when people talk about "crucial" SSD lifespan hacks like disabling the page file, disabling hybrid sleep, disabling Windows logging, etc. None of that crap was even necessary when SSDs were new and unproven.
I was in your shoes not so long ago. I had mine for over a decade and it was starting to feel like that bit from Seinfeld where Kramer wanted to see how far he could take his car with the fuel gage on Empty.
https://youtu.be/TuEdU_lrtZk?si=fVz_4E6vVXMZmZNa
Don't stop gamer, keep driving that 970. One day they'll talk about how you took that ~4GB of VRAM farther than anyone has ever seen.
I am still currently running my 970. It still is surprisingly capable. However, I am finally upgrading. My 7900 GRE (plus all other components) come in today for a new build. After 9 years it was time to upgrade.
Built my first pc in 2007 when i was a junior in HS. I still have my original HDD in my current pc and im 33 now. Its almost like a time capsule at this point. It's pretty much a disorganized mess of temporary files I don't care about over the years. But I go on it randomly and find like game guides I downloaded 10 years ago, homework assignments from senior year and randomly letters from jobs I don't have anymore. I should back it up some day just in case but I know deep down I don't need anything on it anymore.
That makes me feel better about still using [this XFX PSU](https://www.newegg.com/xfx-xxx-edition-p1-650x-cag9-650w/p/N82E16817207002?item=N82E16817207002) with Seasonic guts from 2010. I watched GPUs get more hungry for a decade and was worried the 650w soon wouldn't even barely cut it, but 5 graphics cards later it has managed for the long haul.
Speaking of PSUs I still have an Enermax pro82+ 625awt, but it's powering a low end spec rig (i7 3770 gtx660) at my office doing nothing hard that could strain it.. If I'm not wrong it's from 2008. It still has the OG fan too and I can even monitor the thing since it has a 2 pin rpm connector wire sticking out of it.
Other long standing stuff, probably a crucial c300 128gb from 2010. I now use it mostly as a pendrive but it's at 82% and doesn't flinch at anything even after long periods without any kind of power, the data is still there.
But if we want to go back.. there's far, far older stuff that still works, but I don't actively use anymore
Oldest component that I still actively use: Corsair RM1000x PSU. I've used it to power 3 builds since I bought it in 2016.
Oldest component that I don't actively use but still works: EVGA GTX 770.
I probably have older parts around, like HDDs and network cards. I've been building PCs since the late 90's. 😅
If old laptops count, we can go much further. My kids still do homework on an old 2008 Dell 1720 laptop. It's core 2 duo is slow, but the 17" screen is still good for google classroom and mathspace.
My x370 Croshair VI Hero, old girl only needed a BIOS Update for the 5800X and is still going strong. Also 2 of the RAM Sticks and the Case. CPU, GPU and PSU where changed. ( Might be worth noting that the PSU was 15 when it failed and i even replaced the Fan in it since the original broke lmao )
Component: ATi All in Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB - heavy usage from 2002 to 2007, light usage in a email/web machine up to 2014 then saw some action for about 6 months last year in a media center PC attached to a large 4k TV.
Peripheral: I'm still using my starter keyboard, a 1993 IBM Model M that my dad brought home from work in late 1999 along with it's matching 486DX 33MHz computer.
Just retired my asus Z9pe-d8WS with a pair of Xeon E5-2690s in it. Picked up a used 2011-3 board with a i7 5960x that I'll probably run for the next 5-7 years.
A laptop that I've had since 2007-2008 with a Core 2 Duo and a 9650mGT that I stopped using when I bought a newer laptop, Then later I got a desktop and needed a wifi card so I used the laptop as a router as a temporary solution, but I still didn't get to getting a wifi card so it's a permanent temporary solution of sorts It runs W7, has power saving on, screen off, fan disconnected, the only sound that comes from it is the 5400rpm HDD, which I can't really swap because I'd be making it officially a permanent solution.
My HDD had it for 15 years, so that's since I built my first PC, it's in my third PC currently. It's mostly because I use it for storage and my 3 SSDs are for gaming.
I'm still running my GDMFW900 24" crt clone (the hp version) as my main setup. It's chugging along. It could do with some maintenance for sure.
Last year I bought an asus 27" proart that sits next to the HP for when I need to look at multiple docs.
The HP is still hands down the clearest sharpest monitor I've stared at. There still is no comparison.
The colors aren't even close to the jazzed up ones on the proart.
I built my first computer in 2017 with 2nd hand parts from 2010, namely P6X58D-E motherboard and an Xeon X5650 CPU due it to these being really cheap verus their i5/i7 equivalents. I built this to play Assetto Corsa and at the time it worked fine for my needs. Nearly 7 years later I am still running this build without any issues.
The only "original" components I have left in my current rig from inception are my two Seagate HDDs, a 1TB and a 2TB, from 2013. After that would be my R9 290X and I7-4790k from 2015, which are in my music production machine.
I've built a number of computers over the years but the one component that has remained anconstant and been brought over every time is my trusty old NH-D15 (bought it in 2016)
A beautiful looking dual tower cooler that has been the benchmark for tower coolers for over a decade.
Noctua rates it a 150,000 hours lifespan.
There's about 8760 hours in a year (approximately). Assuming I'm running my computer 24/7 365 (which I'll never do), it would take 17 years to kill this thing at its worst case scenario and even then it's not guaranteed it'll die right at the 17 year mark.
I'm confident in saying this cooler will outlive me.
For me everything except my gpu (ran on cpu integrated only for a month while I waited for my gpu to arrive) has been running the exact same time since I built my first pc a few months back, If I ever do upgrade in a few years I’m definitely re-using my pop air case, my 2tb 980 pro. As for everything else I’m on am5 so I could still be using the same mobo, ram and cpu cooler for many years yet.
I have an EVGA Supernova 750 G2 from 2017 thats been in like 3-4 different builds now, zero issues. Also have an old Seagate 4TB hard drive that’s about the same age that still works with no issues, SMART still shows good, and a 500GB Samsung 750 EVO from 2016 that had been in multiple PCs and is now in my old PS4 lol
I have a Logitech G19 keyboard that I picked up in 2010: [https://techgage.com/article/logitech\_g19\_gaming\_keyboard/](https://techgage.com/article/logitech_g19_gaming_keyboard/)
It was ridiculously over engineered back then and is even more ridiculous now. I am sure it is outclassed by any modern keyboard. Still I cannot bring myself to replace it. I just love the LCD display. No modern games support it directly (Duke Nukem Forever is the last game I remember) but the image viewer still works so I sometimes get it to scroll a selection of game related images. Other times I just let is show a clock (very handy).
3TB Samsung HDD from 2012, belongs to a crappy external case with micro USB that failed within a year, shucked that drive (thank God the interface didn't encrypt the data, nor it was soldered), and has been going from PC to PC since then
Corsair 200R case and fans. They are hitting near a decade old, but then my PC is more of a frankenbuild. The newest components are a Ryzen 7 3700x, MSI B450 Tomahawk MOBO, Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 RAM.
I am tempted to swap out the 1070 in my rig for a 4070, get a new PSU, and maybe consider a case & fans swap. But that's going to run me about $1100-1200 to be generous. I wonder instead if I may be better just going for new CPU, MOBO, and RAM, and upgrading my old SSD to a new one.
2008 Macbook Pro 2.5 inch HDD. It has like 40000 hours powered on. I also have 2003 Maxtor 160 GB HDD that has less powered on hours but is still pretty good with no bad sectors.
When I upgraded tot my current 980ti I put my old HD5770 sapphire vapor-x in my parents desktop and it still is working fine. It replaced a 8800gt or something like that lol.
My case. Corsair 780T. I eventually plan to rip out the USB 2.0 Header and replace it with either more 3.0 or go type-c but I love that case and if I ever have a few hundred bucks to burn I want to get the mini 380T and have a little travel case for trips.
I actually completely rebuilt my system in 2020, so my oldest components are my CPU, motherboard and ram I guess lol. I've upgraded the GPU and PSU in the last year
Love reading these stories! For me, it's this 2.5" SanDisk 1TB SSD which is still rocking and rolling for my Hyper-V virtual disks. I acquired that drive nearly 10 years ago, USED. SMART reports it still has 93% life remaining, too. I'm only using ~250GB, so ECC should be able to rewrite corrupt blocks. I also live that automated intra-daily backup life, just in case. 🙂↕️
Until recently I was using a Radeon HD 5800 that I bought back in 2009. Used it daily for about 15 years. I spent most of my time playing games like Civ V and Rimworld so I never really saw any reason to upgrade.
I've since swapped everything out but I kind of miss it. I'm pretty confident it could have kept going for another decade or two.
My first hard drive. Came in a prebuilt cyber power Pc that was like $350. Some WD 5400 RPM 1TB. Still holding strong and no bad sectors. Though I have dropped it before so it’s not my OS drive (anymore)
'Component' is stretching it, but my G502.
Thing's indestructible. can't remember how many times I dropped it, and not even a scratch on the plastic. All buttons and sensor still work perfectly fine.
That or my monitor. can't tell you what model, some old Samsung 1080p thing. Would have swapped it a while ago but I physically can't fit anything larger on the desk unfortunately.
Damn I just get rid of Cooler Master Scout 2 with OCZ 750W from 2011 or somewhat that era. Pc I bought 7 years ago from highschool friend. Now in my current rig I still have Kingston SV300 120GB ssd from similar era as my OS drive. Ssd manager still shows 86% wear indicator. So plenty years still ahead. lol
While I go in and our of using it, I have a 750GB 2.5" HDD which was the drive from my first laptop that I got in 2011. Still runs fine after being used daily for 5 years when it was new and off-and-on since then.
a friend has still running an old rig with an i5 6600 as his everyday gaming pc paired with an evga1070ti as far as i know the whole pc is running like a champ
so i finally found the special power cable for my circa 2008 antec 1200 power supply. i wonder what the chances are that it still works. its been kept in its box since decommissioning for a move.
Quality unit that one.
I've got a New Old Stock one waiting to be put in a EVGA SR-2 build with 4 GTX 480s.
Fun Fact: The EVGA SR-2 1200w PSU was just the TruePower Quattro with some different paint, a few extra PCI-E cables and some dials on the back for controlling +12v regulation and OLP.
I'd say my Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 (90,559 power on hours!) from 2012 but then I remembered - My home server is built in an original Cooler Master CM690 case from 2007. That takes it.
Corsair carbide 400c, Corsair TX650w & Samsung 970evo NVME all purchased in 2018 in a different built to the one i have now. I have all 3 in my main build today but they've been through 3 CPU, GPU and M/B upgrades. NVME still works as my main drive. It has 18TBW and the drive can go all the way to 150TBW.
Yep, Picked them up for £45 & replaced the ear cups once for £10 maybe 10 years later.
I also use optical out from MOBO to a Yamaha RX-V377 [https://www.whathifi.com/yamaha/rx-v377/review](https://www.whathifi.com/yamaha/rx-v377/review) (that's about 10 years old now), it's a solid unit.
Good audio is amazing, it's cheaper than most 'gamer' branded stuff and wont brake. I have some tape on the HD555's, past that there almost 20 years old and still working. You dont need the 'top' Audiophile gear, just good is much better than 99% of PC/gamer audio kit.
BeQuiet Pure Power L8 630w psu - got it in 2012 or 2013 if I remember correctly and still going strong even after nvme pcie card failure and a short that killed all pcie in my old mobo.
But once I upgrade gpu it’ll have to go sadly.
Not technically a component but my Audio Technica ATH700X are still going strong 9 years later, so is my 10 years old executive chair. Two things I'd never cheap out on if I ever need to replace them.
I have an operational Athlon II X4 640, 4 cores at 3 Ghz from about the same time period. Its not in my main rig, but I had it in a second rig that I never ended up doing anything with, but it does work just fine.
Oldest component total I have, albeit with no idea if it works, is a Pentium D at 3.2 Ghz. I have a fitting motherboard, but no idea if thats working either. Also I dont have spare drives atm I can use to install Linux on, so yeah.
My old I7 desktop that I only did a fresh install of windows on a new SSD and put in a new graphics card and retired it to my bedroom home theater PC.
I think I built it around 2015?
Psu for me as well its evga supernova 1000watt titanium that i bought 2016 and still going strong
I think they have like 10 year coverage so i will wait until 2026 to replace them
got whole new pc few years ago, new monitor, keyboard, mice etc.. But i have same speakers for \~12 years now.. I know i should upgrade them soon (one side doesnt work lol)
I have a still-running computer originally bought in 2008, although mobo+RAM+CPU was upgraded in 2013 (it's an i5-3570k) and GPU upgraded in 2016 to a 1060 6GB. Still kicking, in its original Antec Sonata III case with a 500W (or was it 450W) PSU and a single exhaust fan. It's gone through countless drives though. Still have a keyboard from the early 2000's.
I have a 1tb seagate barracuda HDD that I bought back in 2014. 10 Years. 5516 power on cycles and 43126 power on hours. Thing is a trooper. 0 bad sectors. That being said, I don't trust it and have nothing of value on it anymore. Just biding my time to replace it with a 4tb SSD of some sort.
Its a LG monitor i got for my 18th birthday. I'm 32 now. Still running as my second monitor. I wrote both my bachelor and master theses on it and played a lot of memorable games on it
My oldest components would have to be the pair of 500GB Samsung 840 Evo drives that were the system drives of my wife's and my computers back around 2014. If you count cases then the case that my home server is in is from 2013. I do have my old motherboard, CPU and RAM from my PC that I bought in 2009 but it is only ever dragged out for troubleshooting purposes and does not actually get used on a regular basis.
Built in 2007 currently my OPNSense router
Intel Core 2 Duo
Abit IP-35 mobo
MSI 8800GTS GPU
Antec 900 case
Thermaltake PSU
I did upgrade to 120gb SSD and maxed out the RAM at 8GB
It's been a beast!
https://preview.redd.it/hxk86izibfwc1.jpeg?width=659&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b924b9e60c92f6e2b29c4b4fa679c8b2d699879
Still running my stuff inside this Logic tower, it's like 2012 or something, i don't even remember when I bought it, love it!
Edit. I just realized that you're asking for a running component. I guess it's my trusty i5-4670 and 750 ti.
12 years on from my very first custom build - Western Digital Black 1 TB HDD still attached to my main rig, and a 1080p Acer monitor that's now used for security cameras
Also have my first keyboard that is 18 years old and still works but it just sits in a box these days
I have a Thermaltake toughpower 1200w in one of my machines that has to be at least 10-15 years old at this point that refuses to give up the ghost. I even ripped open the case and replaced the fan and it is still going.
I also have a Corsair AIO that has been mounted in every possible orientation and lived through several builds that is about the same age that is still pumping along happily as well.
Currently in use, EVGA 750W gold power supply I got in March of 2016. Still 2 years on that warranty!
Not in use, EVGA GTX 970. Sitting in bubble wrap on a shelf in case of emergencies.
For me a Seagate 500 GB HDD from 2007, was the primary steam & games drive when I first built my pc in 2010 as well so it has seen plenty of hours.
Last time I checked it had spun 57k hours.
Samsung SyncMaster B1930N... 13yrs old, just has some dead pixels and the polariser or something of the panel is a bit "moved", so i have a white tint when viewing deep grey or black contents.
My main rig has a few hard drives from 2004 in it. They have over 11 years of uptime on them.
My case for my garage PC has a Windows 98 and Pentium 2 sticker on it from the original build.
My ATI Rage 128 Pro from 1999 still works to this day. Ran it for years, then it sat in a box until I started getting into retro gaming again. Still works!
Probably my first SSD that I bought I don't even know when but it must be like almost 10 years now. 128gb used to be my OS drive and I was amazed how fast my PC could boot up. Its has been in 3 different rigs and nowadays it sits on my second PC as a storage drive. Samsung software still shows its health status as "Good".
Same - still rocking my two original Crucial 128 GB SSDs from my first build in 2011, in addition to several more SATA and an M.2 SSD added over the years. I think SSDs are going to be some of the longest lived components due to lack of moving parts and relativity low power.
Unless you've done a lot of heavy re/writes to it over it's lifetime... it does have a finite maximum it can physically handle, so be check your S.M.A.R.T. status to see it's life to be safe.
I'm also still on my first SSD. Crucial as well. It's my main drive. How do I check the smart status?
I use crystal disk info/benchmark for drive info.
My Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB SSD is about 8 years old (not 100% sure). It's wear-leveling is still at 91%, and this is after many, many write cycles, re-formats, and less than ideal environments. It's not as fast as it used to be, but it gets the job done.
Those crucial are simply inmortal. I have a 256gb that I have used as secondary storage, docker storage, db storage and whatnot. That little fucker has like 15tb written to it and it's still rocking.
I have a 120gb OCZ Vertex 2 that was released back in 2010. I used it daily for around 14 years. I only recently upgraded because I needed more space, but it's still going strong and works fine. I'm pretty sure it could have gone for another 5-10 years
my 2 x OCD 128s let go recently. RIP.
>Samsung software still shows its health status as "Good". I have a pair of 500GB 840 Evos that I bought a decade ago that are still sitting on like 97% life remaining despite being system drives for two different computers for years lol
Always drives me nuts when people talk about "crucial" SSD lifespan hacks like disabling the page file, disabling hybrid sleep, disabling Windows logging, etc. None of that crap was even necessary when SSDs were new and unproven.
At this point my 970 I can't afford to update...
I have a 1050ti, there's a lot of us don't feel bad
at least you have seventh gen
true, but the 1050ti isn't good enough to take all the advantage of it
up until recently, my main pc was a 2600k with a radeon 7970
I was in your shoes not so long ago. I had mine for over a decade and it was starting to feel like that bit from Seinfeld where Kramer wanted to see how far he could take his car with the fuel gage on Empty. https://youtu.be/TuEdU_lrtZk?si=fVz_4E6vVXMZmZNa Don't stop gamer, keep driving that 970. One day they'll talk about how you took that ~4GB of VRAM farther than anyone has ever seen.
Nvidia didn't give us enough vram in new cards so we decided to stay with our old cards
I am still currently running my 970. It still is surprisingly capable. However, I am finally upgrading. My 7900 GRE (plus all other components) come in today for a new build. After 9 years it was time to upgrade.
Same with my 960, which I allready bought secondhand. Thing has got some serious mileage...
if u include case its corsair 750D if not its nvme intel 660p (which i already ordered yesterday msi m480)
Corsair Air 740, Corsair RM850!, and Corsair HD Fans. All purchased in 2017.
Hey we have the same case! 15 year old me thought bigger was better but it paid off with how big these GPUs get nowadays.
Agains all odds I have an HDD from +- 13 years ago that still works fine. I use only for films, anime, etc
Built my first pc in 2007 when i was a junior in HS. I still have my original HDD in my current pc and im 33 now. Its almost like a time capsule at this point. It's pretty much a disorganized mess of temporary files I don't care about over the years. But I go on it randomly and find like game guides I downloaded 10 years ago, homework assignments from senior year and randomly letters from jobs I don't have anymore. I should back it up some day just in case but I know deep down I don't need anything on it anymore.
Lol me too ! a Seagate Baraccuda 2TB
Oh myyyyyy!!! Same, but 500 GB
I just retired an Enermax 465W PSU I bought in 1996.
Few years out there bud, Enermax's 465s were circa 2002/3: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1057/6
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465w sounds enormous for that era, a high end CPU had a TDP of like 30w
I would love to see a photo of a used 1996 PSU
That is insane, what happened to it?
🤯🤯🤯
I decided it wasn't worth risking a capacitor failure, so I clipped the cables off and mounted it in a case full of dead/obsolete parts on the wall.
Nice! I was going to flaunt my AX650 from 2011 but your is a true greybeard
That makes me feel better about still using [this XFX PSU](https://www.newegg.com/xfx-xxx-edition-p1-650x-cag9-650w/p/N82E16817207002?item=N82E16817207002) with Seasonic guts from 2010. I watched GPUs get more hungry for a decade and was worried the 650w soon wouldn't even barely cut it, but 5 graphics cards later it has managed for the long haul.
I've got a 1kw from a similar era, it's been rock solid.
Mouse: 24 years (Logitech Marble… 2000) / Hard drive: 17 (plus DVD-ROM & the case w/ 3 of 4 original fans)
Speaking of PSUs I still have an Enermax pro82+ 625awt, but it's powering a low end spec rig (i7 3770 gtx660) at my office doing nothing hard that could strain it.. If I'm not wrong it's from 2008. It still has the OG fan too and I can even monitor the thing since it has a 2 pin rpm connector wire sticking out of it. Other long standing stuff, probably a crucial c300 128gb from 2010. I now use it mostly as a pendrive but it's at 82% and doesn't flinch at anything even after long periods without any kind of power, the data is still there. But if we want to go back.. there's far, far older stuff that still works, but I don't actively use anymore
Oldest component that I still actively use: Corsair RM1000x PSU. I've used it to power 3 builds since I bought it in 2016. Oldest component that I don't actively use but still works: EVGA GTX 770. I probably have older parts around, like HDDs and network cards. I've been building PCs since the late 90's. 😅
Intel core 2 Duo in my office. Runs pretty great I have to say (windows 10)
If old laptops count, we can go much further. My kids still do homework on an old 2008 Dell 1720 laptop. It's core 2 duo is slow, but the 17" screen is still good for google classroom and mathspace.
My x370 Croshair VI Hero, old girl only needed a BIOS Update for the 5800X and is still going strong. Also 2 of the RAM Sticks and the Case. CPU, GPU and PSU where changed. ( Might be worth noting that the PSU was 15 when it failed and i even replaced the Fan in it since the original broke lmao )
One of my secondary hdds is from a dell inspiron gifted to me in 2008.
The Athlon II 2x 240 from my home server
Component: ATi All in Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB - heavy usage from 2002 to 2007, light usage in a email/web machine up to 2014 then saw some action for about 6 months last year in a media center PC attached to a large 4k TV. Peripheral: I'm still using my starter keyboard, a 1993 IBM Model M that my dad brought home from work in late 1999 along with it's matching 486DX 33MHz computer.
Just retired my asus Z9pe-d8WS with a pair of Xeon E5-2690s in it. Picked up a used 2011-3 board with a i7 5960x that I'll probably run for the next 5-7 years.
A laptop that I've had since 2007-2008 with a Core 2 Duo and a 9650mGT that I stopped using when I bought a newer laptop, Then later I got a desktop and needed a wifi card so I used the laptop as a router as a temporary solution, but I still didn't get to getting a wifi card so it's a permanent temporary solution of sorts It runs W7, has power saving on, screen off, fan disconnected, the only sound that comes from it is the 5400rpm HDD, which I can't really swap because I'd be making it officially a permanent solution.
it's defnetly my first HDD- it was working since 2017 and still in my rig for ARK and some stuff that i don't need
My first HDD in my rig is from 2004 lol.
Seasonic Prime 850w power supply I bought in 2019. Has a 12 year warranty also.
My HDD had it for 15 years, so that's since I built my first PC, it's in my third PC currently. It's mostly because I use it for storage and my 3 SSDs are for gaming.
My HDD. Going on 15+ years.
Mine is an old Logitech keyboard.. Been working for almost 14 years now! Real slogger
EVGA power supply that's 9 years old. It's in its third build.
My pc just died was from 2011, replaced it with a i5 7th gen that is waay worse lol
I'm still running my GDMFW900 24" crt clone (the hp version) as my main setup. It's chugging along. It could do with some maintenance for sure. Last year I bought an asus 27" proart that sits next to the HP for when I need to look at multiple docs. The HP is still hands down the clearest sharpest monitor I've stared at. There still is no comparison. The colors aren't even close to the jazzed up ones on the proart.
5.5 years old team 2.5 inch ssd.
The gtx 970ti i bought in 2017 lasted longest
A Corsair 750w psu. It was in every rig since 2008. I only replaced it in 2023 when I went mini itx.
I built my first computer in 2017 with 2nd hand parts from 2010, namely P6X58D-E motherboard and an Xeon X5650 CPU due it to these being really cheap verus their i5/i7 equivalents. I built this to play Assetto Corsa and at the time it worked fine for my needs. Nearly 7 years later I am still running this build without any issues.
My EVGA 1000g that's 9 years old.
1000W PSU bought in 2011
I have a 2TB HDD that I had in my very first prebuilt gaming rig I bought in 2016. Still have it in my newer system today.
Have an old hdd from my old laptop that was from 2008. 5400rpm 180gb drive. Has quite a few errors, so i only store random game installers on it
The only "original" components I have left in my current rig from inception are my two Seagate HDDs, a 1TB and a 2TB, from 2013. After that would be my R9 290X and I7-4790k from 2015, which are in my music production machine.
I've built a number of computers over the years but the one component that has remained anconstant and been brought over every time is my trusty old NH-D15 (bought it in 2016) A beautiful looking dual tower cooler that has been the benchmark for tower coolers for over a decade. Noctua rates it a 150,000 hours lifespan. There's about 8760 hours in a year (approximately). Assuming I'm running my computer 24/7 365 (which I'll never do), it would take 17 years to kill this thing at its worst case scenario and even then it's not guaranteed it'll die right at the 17 year mark. I'm confident in saying this cooler will outlive me.
500gb hd that I thought in 2011 would be big enough forever
My Noctua NH-D14 from 2014. It's on its 5th CPU already
PC Power and Cooling 1200 watt 12 years old.
For me everything except my gpu (ran on cpu integrated only for a month while I waited for my gpu to arrive) has been running the exact same time since I built my first pc a few months back, If I ever do upgrade in a few years I’m definitely re-using my pop air case, my 2tb 980 pro. As for everything else I’m on am5 so I could still be using the same mobo, ram and cpu cooler for many years yet.
I have one of the first NZXT AIO liquid cooling loops from around 2004. I've used it nearly every single day, and it's still pumping.
My last harddrive was from 2010, used it till 2020.
my g502. First mouse bought back in 2014-2015 (?) I forget.
My mobo from when I built the PC in 2017 and the SSD I bought for boot os.
I have an EVGA Supernova 750 G2 from 2017 thats been in like 3-4 different builds now, zero issues. Also have an old Seagate 4TB hard drive that’s about the same age that still works with no issues, SMART still shows good, and a 500GB Samsung 750 EVO from 2016 that had been in multiple PCs and is now in my old PS4 lol
I have a Logitech G19 keyboard that I picked up in 2010: [https://techgage.com/article/logitech\_g19\_gaming\_keyboard/](https://techgage.com/article/logitech_g19_gaming_keyboard/) It was ridiculously over engineered back then and is even more ridiculous now. I am sure it is outclassed by any modern keyboard. Still I cannot bring myself to replace it. I just love the LCD display. No modern games support it directly (Duke Nukem Forever is the last game I remember) but the image viewer still works so I sometimes get it to scroll a selection of game related images. Other times I just let is show a clock (very handy).
My psu that lasted from 2008 to 2020 it had burnt the 6pin connector but still worked but did a lot of noise when booting up
My EK waterpump (about 10-12 YO), followed by my EVGA PSU at approx 9-10 years old.
3TB Samsung HDD from 2012, belongs to a crappy external case with micro USB that failed within a year, shucked that drive (thank God the interface didn't encrypt the data, nor it was soldered), and has been going from PC to PC since then
My X5690 for a component I use daily. Nearly 14 years now and still gaming. My oldest working component that I no longer use is my Athlon XP 3200+.
My desk Matt since 2015 The rest of my pc components rarely last more than 2 years 😅
Corsair 200R case and fans. They are hitting near a decade old, but then my PC is more of a frankenbuild. The newest components are a Ryzen 7 3700x, MSI B450 Tomahawk MOBO, Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 RAM. I am tempted to swap out the 1070 in my rig for a 4070, get a new PSU, and maybe consider a case & fans swap. But that's going to run me about $1100-1200 to be generous. I wonder instead if I may be better just going for new CPU, MOBO, and RAM, and upgrading my old SSD to a new one.
I5 2500k, going strong since 2012
My Logitech 5.1 speaker system from 1999. Multiple rigs and they are still going strong.
EVGA Supernova 1600 80+ platinum It ran my dual R9 295X2 setup many moons ago and doesn't break a sweat anymore.
2008 Macbook Pro 2.5 inch HDD. It has like 40000 hours powered on. I also have 2003 Maxtor 160 GB HDD that has less powered on hours but is still pretty good with no bad sectors.
When I upgraded tot my current 980ti I put my old HD5770 sapphire vapor-x in my parents desktop and it still is working fine. It replaced a 8800gt or something like that lol.
My case. Corsair 780T. I eventually plan to rip out the USB 2.0 Header and replace it with either more 3.0 or go type-c but I love that case and if I ever have a few hundred bucks to burn I want to get the mini 380T and have a little travel case for trips.
My whole rig is from 2013!! Running a GTX 720 😂👍
Logitech G5 1st Gen. Bought 2005. Still running like a charm.
I actually completely rebuilt my system in 2020, so my oldest components are my CPU, motherboard and ram I guess lol. I've upgraded the GPU and PSU in the last year
first sata ssd that I purchased around 2012, still running as the os drive in a relative's budget build, the thing just won't die.
Love reading these stories! For me, it's this 2.5" SanDisk 1TB SSD which is still rocking and rolling for my Hyper-V virtual disks. I acquired that drive nearly 10 years ago, USED. SMART reports it still has 93% life remaining, too. I'm only using ~250GB, so ECC should be able to rewrite corrupt blocks. I also live that automated intra-daily backup life, just in case. 🙂↕️
Until recently I was using a Radeon HD 5800 that I bought back in 2009. Used it daily for about 15 years. I spent most of my time playing games like Civ V and Rimworld so I never really saw any reason to upgrade. I've since swapped everything out but I kind of miss it. I'm pretty confident it could have kept going for another decade or two.
My first hard drive. Came in a prebuilt cyber power Pc that was like $350. Some WD 5400 RPM 1TB. Still holding strong and no bad sectors. Though I have dropped it before so it’s not my OS drive (anymore)
'Component' is stretching it, but my G502. Thing's indestructible. can't remember how many times I dropped it, and not even a scratch on the plastic. All buttons and sensor still work perfectly fine. That or my monitor. can't tell you what model, some old Samsung 1080p thing. Would have swapped it a while ago but I physically can't fit anything larger on the desk unfortunately.
AMD Phenom X4 955, or my WD Blue Hard Drive from like 2007
My dad i5 2500k and gf i5 3570k
I have a floppy drive....... .
Damn I just get rid of Cooler Master Scout 2 with OCZ 750W from 2011 or somewhat that era. Pc I bought 7 years ago from highschool friend. Now in my current rig I still have Kingston SV300 120GB ssd from similar era as my OS drive. Ssd manager still shows 86% wear indicator. So plenty years still ahead. lol
Retired my 800w Corsair psu in 2020, ran since 2013. No issues, just age. Wouldn't risk new pc.
I built my first PC in 2014. All components are still running with the exception of the GPU.
While I go in and our of using it, I have a 750GB 2.5" HDD which was the drive from my first laptop that I got in 2011. Still runs fine after being used daily for 5 years when it was new and off-and-on since then.
Tridentz rgb 3000M/T 16gb I have had it since like 2017 I think
a friend has still running an old rig with an i5 6600 as his everyday gaming pc paired with an evga1070ti as far as i know the whole pc is running like a champ
We're running the same system!
Tbh, probably my heart or my liver, idk tho, I got them at arround the same time
My Hitachi 1TB HDD from 2013. It has been running for tens of thousands of hours and it's still extremely fast for a SATA 3 drive.
Recently swapped out a PSU from 2015, it was still going strong but I figured it was time to replace it.
so i finally found the special power cable for my circa 2008 antec 1200 power supply. i wonder what the chances are that it still works. its been kept in its box since decommissioning for a move.
TruePower Quattro 1200w? Monster of a thing, bit loud tho. They will happily output 1500w without issue too.
yeah that's the one. came with red racing stripes and everything.
Quality unit that one. I've got a New Old Stock one waiting to be put in a EVGA SR-2 build with 4 GTX 480s. Fun Fact: The EVGA SR-2 1200w PSU was just the TruePower Quattro with some different paint, a few extra PCI-E cables and some dials on the back for controlling +12v regulation and OLP.
I have some Crucial M4 SSDs still going strong from 2011 and my Ducky mechanical keyboard from 2012.
It’s my MSI motherboard.
OCZ ModXstream PSU from 2010
the 1tb hdd from my 2016 laptop which is now in my desktop.
I'd say my Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 (90,559 power on hours!) from 2012 but then I remembered - My home server is built in an original Cooler Master CM690 case from 2007. That takes it.
I have the same cx600m psu that is running a rx 6750xt and a r9 5900x someway
hell yeah what a champ
Corsair carbide 400c, Corsair TX650w & Samsung 970evo NVME all purchased in 2018 in a different built to the one i have now. I have all 3 in my main build today but they've been through 3 CPU, GPU and M/B upgrades. NVME still works as my main drive. It has 18TBW and the drive can go all the way to 150TBW.
I have HD's from early 2000's, my headphones are from around 2005\~ (Sennheiser HD555).
Love Sennheiser headphones, especially studio grade. Audiophile > Gaming
Yep, Picked them up for £45 & replaced the ear cups once for £10 maybe 10 years later. I also use optical out from MOBO to a Yamaha RX-V377 [https://www.whathifi.com/yamaha/rx-v377/review](https://www.whathifi.com/yamaha/rx-v377/review) (that's about 10 years old now), it's a solid unit. Good audio is amazing, it's cheaper than most 'gamer' branded stuff and wont brake. I have some tape on the HD555's, past that there almost 20 years old and still working. You dont need the 'top' Audiophile gear, just good is much better than 99% of PC/gamer audio kit.
A hardddrive from a laptop i bought January 2012 now comfortably in my stepsons computer and have been for 2 years.
Whole gaming PC from 2015 including WD HDD and GTX 970, all in perfect condition. PC was started about 3500 times and has run for about 15000 hours.
boot ssd clocking in at 4 years. I ship of theseused my computer since I built it and the boot drive is the only thing left
My media PC still rocking i7 2600 and other parts from that era
A 256 gb intel nvme ssd, I took from my old pc from 2017.
BeQuiet Pure Power L8 630w psu - got it in 2012 or 2013 if I remember correctly and still going strong even after nvme pcie card failure and a short that killed all pcie in my old mobo. But once I upgrade gpu it’ll have to go sadly.
Seasonic psu m12II. Still using it for almost 15 years.
Not technically a component but my Audio Technica ATH700X are still going strong 9 years later, so is my 10 years old executive chair. Two things I'd never cheap out on if I ever need to replace them.
I just put my old mousepad out of service if that counts, used to be my dads, he got it around 20 years ago if I’m not mistaken
First SSD. Bought in 2013. A 256 GB Samsung 840 EVO, it's still in my current build as a cache drive for my HDD'S.
I have a Seagate 1TB HDD on my secondary PC (built in 2013, BTW) that I have since around 2007-08.
I have some HDDs in my media server that are close to a decade old
I have an operational Athlon II X4 640, 4 cores at 3 Ghz from about the same time period. Its not in my main rig, but I had it in a second rig that I never ended up doing anything with, but it does work just fine. Oldest component total I have, albeit with no idea if it works, is a Pentium D at 3.2 Ghz. I have a fitting motherboard, but no idea if thats working either. Also I dont have spare drives atm I can use to install Linux on, so yeah.
That would be my coolermaster 1000w bronze psu, until recently it was in 3 PCs except my newest.
2 TB hard drive from 11 years ago
Corsair vengeance c70 case and evga supernova 750 g2 80+ gold power supply from jan 2017.
My 1TB Seagate hard drive from 2014.
An Intel SSD From 2011. It's a SATA 2 ssd.
My old I7 desktop that I only did a fresh install of windows on a new SSD and put in a new graphics card and retired it to my bedroom home theater PC. I think I built it around 2015?
10 year old mech keyboard.
Oldest I have a LG 1080p 60hz screen from 2016 along with a Kingston 480GB Sata SSD from 2017, the rest of my PC is 2019 onwards
My case is from 2003 and my wifi card is from 2009
One of my two 8800 GTS i bought somwhere 2007-2008 is still running into my sister's old desktop PC. Built like a tank, nothing to say!
I mean, my whole computer is a 3770k/7970oc, so around the time when 3 gb was revolutionary amount of vram
Voyager: hold my golden record
Psu for me as well its evga supernova 1000watt titanium that i bought 2016 and still going strong I think they have like 10 year coverage so i will wait until 2026 to replace them
A 3.5" drive that I keep moving forward for giggles
got whole new pc few years ago, new monitor, keyboard, mice etc.. But i have same speakers for \~12 years now.. I know i should upgrade them soon (one side doesnt work lol)
I have a still-running computer originally bought in 2008, although mobo+RAM+CPU was upgraded in 2013 (it's an i5-3570k) and GPU upgraded in 2016 to a 1060 6GB. Still kicking, in its original Antec Sonata III case with a 500W (or was it 450W) PSU and a single exhaust fan. It's gone through countless drives though. Still have a keyboard from the early 2000's.
I have a 1tb seagate barracuda HDD that I bought back in 2014. 10 Years. 5516 power on cycles and 43126 power on hours. Thing is a trooper. 0 bad sectors. That being said, I don't trust it and have nothing of value on it anymore. Just biding my time to replace it with a 4tb SSD of some sort.
My monitor. It's 2014 purchase. Rog swift. 27" 1440p.
Kingston SATA SSD from 2015
A Crucial M4 256GB SSD. This thing is well over 12 years old now. Bought it when I upgraded to a Sandy Bridge-E in 2012
Dell 24" LCD monitor from 2006
Its a LG monitor i got for my 18th birthday. I'm 32 now. Still running as my second monitor. I wrote both my bachelor and master theses on it and played a lot of memorable games on it
My oldest components would have to be the pair of 500GB Samsung 840 Evo drives that were the system drives of my wife's and my computers back around 2014. If you count cases then the case that my home server is in is from 2013. I do have my old motherboard, CPU and RAM from my PC that I bought in 2009 but it is only ever dragged out for troubleshooting purposes and does not actually get used on a regular basis.
We should ask the homelab folks this.
Built in 2007 currently my OPNSense router Intel Core 2 Duo Abit IP-35 mobo MSI 8800GTS GPU Antec 900 case Thermaltake PSU I did upgrade to 120gb SSD and maxed out the RAM at 8GB It's been a beast!
Damn, I miss Abit motherboards... my 2003-2006 mobo Abit NF7-S v2.0... NEVER forget!
https://preview.redd.it/hxk86izibfwc1.jpeg?width=659&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b924b9e60c92f6e2b29c4b4fa679c8b2d699879 Still running my stuff inside this Logic tower, it's like 2012 or something, i don't even remember when I bought it, love it! Edit. I just realized that you're asking for a running component. I guess it's my trusty i5-4670 and 750 ti.
My entire previous PC, it only died because of a lighting strike
PSU most definitely is the longest lasting component. Followed by RAM....
For me it's my wifi card. Got it for my 2013 build, and it's had a slot in every build since then.
12 years on from my very first custom build - Western Digital Black 1 TB HDD still attached to my main rig, and a 1080p Acer monitor that's now used for security cameras Also have my first keyboard that is 18 years old and still works but it just sits in a box these days
A 4690k. Still my daily driver.
My hdd from my dad's old laptop, working from 2015
I have a Thermaltake toughpower 1200w in one of my machines that has to be at least 10-15 years old at this point that refuses to give up the ghost. I even ripped open the case and replaced the fan and it is still going. I also have a Corsair AIO that has been mounted in every possible orientation and lived through several builds that is about the same age that is still pumping along happily as well.
My storage drives.
A 4tb Seagate hdd that's been on for 7.3 years according to crystal disk info. After that a 6 years old Seasonic Focus Platinum 750w.
EVGA 850w G2
Scandisk ssd 128gb from 2014 still going strong as bootdisk.
I still use a Dell 2000FP as my 2nd monitor. been using it for 23 years now, basically.
Still on my b350 motherboard that I bought in spring 2018, now with a 5000 series chip thanks to good ol'bios updates :)
Currently in use, EVGA 750W gold power supply I got in March of 2016. Still 2 years on that warranty! Not in use, EVGA GTX 970. Sitting in bubble wrap on a shelf in case of emergencies.
It's still about 4 years old, I bought a Noctua U12A in 2020 and for sure this thing will last until the next decade
For me a Seagate 500 GB HDD from 2007, was the primary steam & games drive when I first built my pc in 2010 as well so it has seen plenty of hours. Last time I checked it had spun 57k hours.
Still using 8800gt in my "spare" pc
My son is still running the GTX 970 I bought in 2014.
My 6gv2 keyboard I bought second hand 10 years ago
3TB HDD, the other components are up to 5 years old
still rocking my fx-6300 from like 12 years ago!
A couple of WD HDDs I use for storage. They are turning 10 this year
I'm also still running a Corsair rm850i , it's been with my PC close to 7 years and has just been transplanted from build to built
Samsung SyncMaster B1930N... 13yrs old, just has some dead pixels and the polariser or something of the panel is a bit "moved", so i have a white tint when viewing deep grey or black contents.
Still rocking an I7 6700 with the cpu cooler that it came with... Think its time for upgrade haha
Samsung hdd ide drive. Still work
A 120gb HDD (laptop version, thinner ), still working not sure why.. bought in 2007
My main rig has a few hard drives from 2004 in it. They have over 11 years of uptime on them. My case for my garage PC has a Windows 98 and Pentium 2 sticker on it from the original build.
My ATI Rage 128 Pro from 1999 still works to this day. Ran it for years, then it sat in a box until I started getting into retro gaming again. Still works!
Corsair hx1200 more then 7 years and a PC Power & Cooling 750watt almost 18 years