Longest lasting Rig.

[Frisch]

Longest lasting Rig.

What we are looking for, is your longest lasting 24/7 Rig.

This could also give an indication of solid Hardware manufacturers, spite the fact they all make mistakes from time to time.

State your Rig, and let us see some solid Hardware.

I'll go first.

Assembled April 2002
4 years 24/7 in April

MB : Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Bios Version 1013
PSU : Chill 400W ( Danish PSU 120mm cooler xtremely silent and good, the new ones has some problems ) Was applied in 2004 instead of an Enermax 350W which burned.
CPU : AMD 2600 + on stock speed (been overclocked for a year, but back on stock now). Cooler : Zalman 7000 ALCU
RAM : Samsung Dual kit PC 3200 DDR 400MHZ Value.
GPU : Ati Radeon 9600 Pro . Was applied instead of an 9700 Pro, which i overvolted. So my fault.
HDD : Seagate Barracuda 80 GB SATA .. Replaced an Maxtor ATA 2004 No problems with it.
Case: Mercury
DVD : Lite on. Old stuff, only ROM. Cheap and solid.
System is air cooled by 4 Papst 80mm 1 front in. 1 top out. 1 back out.1 side in. and the 120mm PSU. MB Temp 24 CPU idle 38 Load 44-46
The System is almost silent.
M$ XP home, which i have slimmed down to almost nothing. 14 jobs in task. Win folder around 600 MB including another shell called GANT.

[physics_geek]

A 486 system, forgot the specs. Used it for 5 yrs.

[mrlobber]

Not really ar 24/7 rig, but used basically every day:

Components surviving since summer of 2001:

* AMD Thunderbird 1 Ghz with a Thermaltake 60mm cooler, I don't even remember the name of it, so old it is :D
* Gigabyte 7ZX-H VIA KT133A mobo
* 128Mb generic SDRAM
* 250W crap PSU; an ugly looking case without any additional fans

from 2002:
* 256 Mb Spectek SDRAM module
* 20 Gb WD 7200RPM 2Mb cache HDD.
* 64Mb unknown manufacturer GeForce2 Pro video card

components died within a year from the purchase of the system:
1x Fujitsu 20Gb HDD
2x Palit Daytona Geforce2 Pro video cards, one 32Mb, one - 64Mb.

[Frisch]

A 486 system, forgot the specs. Used it for 5 yrs.
Anything you can remember, would be appreciated.
What got burned, and what lasted.
Not really ar 24/7 rig, but used basically every day:

Components surviving since summer of 2001:

* AMD Thunderbird 1 Ghz with a Thermaltake 60mm cooler, I don't even remember the name of it, so old it is :D
* Gigabyte 7ZX-H VIA KT133A mobo
* 128Mb generic SDRAM
* 250W crap PSU; an ugly looking case without any additional fans

from 2002:
* 256 Mb Spectek SDRAM module
* 20 Gb WD 7200RPM 2Mb cache HDD.
* 64Mb unknown manufacturer GeForce2 Pro video card

components died within a year from the purchase of the system:
1x Fujitsu 20Gb HDD
2x Palit Daytona Geforce2 Pro video cards, one 32Mb, one - 64Mb.
That's the spirit, a view over what lasted and what went down the drain.

[Phantasia]

A compaq deskpro (Can´t remember the model).
It bears:
An Intel Pentium 166mhz
96MB EDO Ram
ATI Rage2 PCI
1x Seagate 6Gb

It kept on 24/7 for 2 months! Using emule while i was on vacations.

I now use it with ms-dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 for playing older games!

[Jokester_wild]

Up till last August.
P3 933mhz
Soyo P3 mobo
Asus Geforce 256 (replaced once midlife)
Generic mix ram 256mb pc133
Maxtor 10gig
Plextor SCSI Burner

Videocard burned out, replaced with another Asus Card (Asus Geforce 256). second card started doing funky stuff tried upgrading it to a higher card i had kicking around 9500 i believe, took out PSU. Since has been upgraded.

The harddrive, SCSI Burner, P3 proc/mobo, and memory all still work great i gave it to my parents for a secondary computer.

[[XC] leviathan18]

p4 1.7 willamette

rambus samsung pc800 2 256mb sitck 2 128mb sticks

inte 850gb intel mobo

geforce 2

maxtor 20gb ide

creative dvd 6x

case generic one

psu generic one

6 to 7 years and still kicking nothing changed

[[XC]melymel]

now my spare machine after 8 years at 70C, here goes;

T'bird 1ghz
Abit KT7A-Raid
128mb pc-100 sdram (2 x 64mb)
Voodoo 3 2000agp (upgraded from a trident 3d image that died PDQ after purchase :p)
4gb Quatum 4200 (i think)
125w generic psu
No case fans in a horrible generic case.

Im surprised its lasted so long and its still going strong. I use it when im mid way through building new computers as its just capable of running word and XP :D.

[mursaat]

Friends comp (exact to mine, but I upgraded 3 times since that)

Asus A7V133 mobo (picky with the IRQs, but it works flawlessly apart from that)
Tbird 1000 @140x10, 63c idle with a Globalwin Copper, model unknown (and that's how its being for 4.5 years :stick:)

Hynix memory modules PC133, 1x512 <- died because he pluged it the wrong side :D

Seagate Barracuda IV 40gb <- keeps working

Leadtek Geforce 2 Ti <- both died, his and mine

And in my rig still works a 20gb Samsung HDD, with some bad sectors probably caused by travels, that was my "removable hdd" :D

[003]

I have a Mac Color Classic that still works..., also, an IBM thinkpad 486 laptop...

[Der_KHAN]

this was my rig for 4 very long years, starting from feb. '97:

Cyrix 6x86 P200+ (replaced later by AMD K6 233)
ASUS Socket 7 board, Intel VX chipset (died from the broken PSU i believe)
32MB PC66 SDRAM
Matrox Mystique 4MB
Miro Highscore 3DFX Voodoo 1 6MB Board (bought in '98)
Seagate 2.3GB IDE Drive (the pins in the power plug fell off)
crappy PSU
crappy Case

[physics_geek]

Anything you can remember, would be appreciated.
What got burned, and what lasted.


The Motherboard. Still have the processor, with a few bent pins. It doesn't have heatsink. Everytime, I look at it I feel ashamed of modern CPU, because of their HS.:D Other parts still lived after the death of the MB, but we ripped them apart out of curiosity.

[[XC] moddolicous]

My dad's comp
P3 700 @ 800 (only for about a year)
Biostar M76VCG
640mb some type of sdram
MX/MX 400
Crappy psu
20gb hard drive
Thats been working for ~5yrs, mostly 24/7. Only off during vacations (1wk +).

[[XC] Lead Head]

My everyday rig that was in service up until june

-AXP 1700+ Palomino
-Soyo SY-k7ADA v1.0 mobo
-40GB WB orginally, died within ~3 days, replaced with 80GB seagate which is now in this rig
-384MB PC2100, later 768MB
-Lite-On CD-RON
-BenQ DVD Drive
-Some weird Soyo case with some weird 350watt PSU that was included with the case.
-Hercule 3D Prophet 4000XT 32MB PCI, then 128MB FX-5200, then finially 256MB 9600 AGP.

Reason for retirement. The Athlon XP 1700 and r9600 couldnt keep up with todays games. System is still in service but with with less ram and a 10GB HD. And a TNT2 now. The 9600 was carried over into my current rig but died and was replaced with this x800 in december.

System asembled ~Late 2001-Early 2002. Taken out of main use June 23rd 2005

[cmay119]

Another non-24/7 rig but used every day (now by my dad).

Motherboard: BIOSTAR M6TSU
CPU: Pentium 3 Tualitan 1.13GHz 133FSB CPU (Replaced 1.2GHz Celeron 100FSB)
Memory: 2x256MB Kingston Valueram PC133
Video: Built By ATi Radeon 7000 32MB AGP
Sound: Creative Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Hard Drive: 20GB Western Digital PATA100 2MB Cache
Network: Linksys LNE100TX 10/100 Ethernet Adaptor
CDROM: Sony 40x CDROM
PSU: Generic 350Watt PSU
OS: Windows 2000 Professional

This rig is ultra stable, and being about 5 years old, it's still suprisingly snappy for the stuff my dad does. (Online Poker, Word processing and web surfing.)
This motherboard was used in my very first build. Although BIOS has very little options for tweaking. It's a very n00b friendly board.

[Movieman]

Different then most of yours but old and reliable:
Up since 1999, cpu upgrade since 2002
My file server, runs 24/7 and at 100%on the cpu's( crunching rosetta)
Supermicro S2DGU MB; Dual P3 Xeon
2-700/2mb/100 xeons @784mhz
1 gig(2X512mb) Crucial CAS2 Reg ECC PC133 SDRAM
Matrox GS400 vid
Zippy Dual 350 watt PS
All in a SM SC830 cube case..

[Frisch]

Matrox Mystique 4MB
:lol:


About the Cases and PSU's, it's no secret that they all were crappy at that time.
The PSU's were not only crappy, they were extremely noisy too.
I remember when i did some calculations, and my Machine had to use 3 days calculating 7300000 combinations, i had to stop it, the noise were killing me.
The noise level from bad CPU coolers, trying to cool down the hot thunderbird, or Intel's "we want summer all year".
The tiny screaming 40mm on the GPU, combined with the, at the time, bad case coolers and PSU cooler, made an inferno of noise.

@leviathan18
Those Rambus, don't they have some heat issues.

[wowza]

An old Dell Latitude XPi laptop I use once in a while, mainly for typing up reports. The rollerball is a wierd touch, but a 1st in its time, works without any problems, but moves like a slug.
150MHz Pentium Processor (no MMX yet)
1.2Gig HD
32MB SODIMM 72pin (133MHz)
Windows 95
11.3in LCD Display
Floppy Drive
6x CD rom drive

[[XC] Lead Head]

An old Dell Latitude XPi laptop I use once in a while, mainly for typing up reports. The rollerball is a wierd touch, but a 1st in its time, works without any problems, but moves like a slug.
150MHz Pentium Processor (no MMX yet)
1.2Gig HD
32MB SODIMM 72pin (133MHz)
Windows 95
11.3in LCD Display
Floppy Drive
6x CD rom drive
:eek:

[Daveb2012]

I had a compaq 1000Mhz I used for about 5 years, p3 unlimited problems with it.

[Quest_7F]

Still running-used by family
HP Net Server E-5
Intel PCI Chipset 95' (Server Friendly Format)
pentium 2-233mhz@333Mhz wMMX /onboard overclocked as of 05'
128RAM-SEC *stock
psu-HP-200w *stock
Mitsumi-cdrom *stock
Samsung CD-RW 16 added 03'
PCI_____________
MGA 64bit graphics *stock
Creative sound 94' added 97'
NEC usb input2 added 04'
Parallel Tasking Ethernet card added 03'
Adaptec SCSI *stock
BUT FILTHY AS HELL

[Repoman]

Compaq presario (forget the model number)

AMD Athlon 900MHz
1x128 infineon, 1x256 spectek
Maxtor 40GB HDD, Maxtor 80GB HDD
Some crappy compaq mobo w/ AMD-751 chipset
150w PSU (I think?) 7A@12v rail
Came with a diamond 4mb GFX, upgraded to ATI Radeon 9000 64mb AGP 2x

I got it in 1998, it's still in use today. 100% Prime stable (though each test takes about 2hrs) but it takes about 3mins to post for some reason.. so i never turn it off

It runs caseless in the basement now, I'm too lazy/dont care about it enough to put it back together

[IYP]

IBM Aptiva something or other....had it since 96~98 and its been running pretty well 400mhz p2 and 128mb or ram...dunno specs too well...theyve been dormant for the las 2 years or so but they still boot as of a week ago or so

[zenzog]

an AMD 1ghz Duron
2x128MB pc133 ram
some crappy ECS motherboard
an old scsi controller w/scsi drive (i think like 10 gig)
nvidia riva tnt2 (upgraded from a voodoo3)

[OmegaMerc]

Upgrade too fast to have anything solid to last a while, I think the research or whatever is bogus, because there are so many factors that can attribute to a system lasting one month or 10 years that it would make whatever results you have meaningless.

Some factors:

If you move ur stuff around can shake stuff loose causing a short
Humidity
Inproper/proper application of paste
General room temperature
Enviroment cleanliness
Fan longevity
Virus's
Lack of knowledge of components and troubleshooting
Lack of knowledge of updates to address problems

[eBoy0]

Old.... 1995 Dell
500MHZ
128MB PC100 SDRAM
12Gig HDD
Onboard Video
Onboard Sound

Used up until 2000....

[Quest_7F]

^good point