Old motherboards still doing you proud :)

[MegaWorks]

The legendary DFI LanParty NF-4 Ultra-D

 

[bobsmith1492]

The legendary DFI LanParty NF-4 Ultra-D

I just pulled mine out of a PC I built in high school. I still use the big yellow box to store PC parts.

 

[blackhawk]

I was also sorry to see the demise of epox but have now switched that 'warm' feeling to gigabyte for about my last 8 motherboards.

I do have an older computer in the closet right now that has been great and still runs, an asus tusl-2c with 1100mz celeron thats had a long life. I'm generally not a fan of asus for various reasons but they do make good product and I also run an asus matx that does very well with a phenom II x4 at 3800 with just a multiplier change.

 

[pitz]

Just pulled an Asus P2B-D (dual processor i440BX) board that ran 2 Intel P3-450 CPU's. Bought the hardware in August, 1999, and it ran 24/7/365 ever since. PSU was replaced once. Hard drives were replaced every few years.

Have a P2L97-DS (dual Intel P2-233, i440LX) still in a machine that runs some proprietary accounting software that is hardware-locked to that particular machine for licensing reasons. Circa late-1997.

Previous machines included a handfull of Asus P55T2P4's (circa 1996!) which were very reliable, but had to be retired because of the use of an integrated, non-replaceable CMOS battery module. Also had an Asus P5SP4 board, Intel Pentium-66, which used a buggy SiS chipset, circa 1994-1995. Amazingly enough, the Pentium chip used 5V logic, so the board itself was very clean -- no voltage regulators or anything like that -- just used power straight off the PSU. That got retired in 2003 or so.

So yeah... Have never had a bad experience with, or have lost an Asus board. I just took delivery of a M4A78T-E, and look forward to building an i5 system in the future as well.

 

[pitz]

Just pulled an Asus P2B-D (dual processor i440BX) board that ran 2 Intel P3-450 CPU's. Bought the hardware in August, 1999, and it ran 24/7/365 ever since. PSU was replaced once. Hard drives were replaced every few years.

Have a P2L97-DS (dual Intel P2-233, i440LX) still in a machine that runs some proprietary accounting software that is hardware-locked to that particular machine for licensing reasons. Circa late-1997.

Previous machines included a handfull of Asus P55T2P4's (circa 1996!) which were very reliable, but had to be retired because of the use of an integrated, non-replaceable CMOS battery module. Also had an Asus P5SP4 board, Intel Pentium-66, which used a buggy SiS chipset, circa 1994-1995. Amazingly enough, the Pentium chip used 5V logic, so the board itself was very clean -- no voltage regulators or anything like that -- just used power straight off the PSU. That got retired in 2003 or so.

So yeah... Have never had a bad experience with, or have lost an Asus board. I just took delivery of a M4A78T-E, and look forward to building an i5 system in the future as well.

 

[Lark888]

I am using a Tyan Trinity ATX S1598 motherboard with an AMD K6-3+ 450 @600 as my central server for files and media. This setup runs 24/7 and is from circa 1997. I shut it down the other day to put in a USB2.0 PCI card to add an external 1TB drive. No sign of capacitor problems (I figure it will die tomorrow now).

The other old computer I use from time to time is an IBM Aptiva (it came with a non-MMX 100Mhz Pentium). It has been upgraded to a 233MMX and 256K L2 Cache running Windows 98SE. I use it to run MIDI files for theater rehearsals.
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FIC 503+ with AMD K6-3+ 450 @ 600 Mhz. Still in service after 10 years, for occasional duty, thanks to an ISA slot eeprom burner.
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I remember hunting down this board for an AMD K6-2 - It worked great with that chip.

There is an old IBM PC and IBM AT somewhere at my parent's house, but I have not tried to start them up in years.

Two AMD Socket A motherboards, one ASUS and one MSI just died on me in the past month.

 

[blackhawk]

asus tusl 2c with celeron 1100 I once ran at 1333mz

built it for my daughter 7? years ago, worked great for her till she went to university then got her a laptop(thats 4 years old and still doing fine too) so sold the desktop to my neighbour who used it till last summer when he got a newer computer from me and he gave it to his daughter and she got a laptop so he gave it back to me, sitting upstairs and still boots up

 

[Shagger]

I am still using my A7N8X Deluxe with my Barton 2500+ OC'ed to 3200+... It's like a old comfortable pair of shoes, they work and feels great. Just have to do those DVD Shrinks overnight is all...

 

[Adina]

One issue that could cause other components to fail is an over voltage but with out knowing the problem it is impossible to say I'm afraid.

 

[squirrel dog]

Intel 865 Perl P4 3.2 3 gigs ram dual h/d's agp ati 1950 pro since 2003 .

 

[WinXP]

I guess everything I have is old. 2- DFI nf4 ultra-d, but one just quit 2 days ago. Found a replacement ultra-d to put in case. In the mean time replaced dead ultra-d with a NF7-S v2 mobo an 3000+ cpu. Works fine using it right now. My son 30yrs old still runs my first Abit BH6 mobo with a P3 700 in it. The BH6 is like a timex, just keeps on ticking.

 

[floogy]

ASUS A7N with an AMD Barton core (can't remember the clock speed). My dad still uses it for email and eBay.

 

[alyarb]

I had a 2.5 (not 2.53) GHz northwood doing 3.3 GHz on an ASUS P4B533 that has been my mom's computer from 2002 until last week when it died. Her brother-in-law had a 478 board he swapped in so I presume it's back at 2.5 GHz. Either way that's a pretty long time.

 

[Rhoxed]

A7N8X Deluxe with a barton 2500+ @ 2.4
Asus P4P800-SE with a P42.4C @ 3.2

 

[notposting]

The first board I bought new was an A7N8X (along with a Tbred-B 1800) and despite some cheap speakers killing the sound on it (and then killing my SB 5.1 Live! before I stopped plugging them in) it is working fine as an Edubuntu LTSP for brother in law.

Have a new to me A7N8X Deluxe that I picked up and recapped.
Also just replaced some *more* capacitors on an Asus M2V-MX, replaced some at ATX power input when I first got it a year or two ago, just replaced the CPU area ones with some solid caps

Also have some FIC P2 and P3 boards that I have used as firewall/router/gateway devices for years now.

Been making an effort to modernize everything though.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Got a Socket 7 VIA AMD board (Soltek?) running a K62-450 + 64MB PC66 SDRAM. This SOB is old skool, even has 2 ISA slots. Running DOS 6.22/WFW 3.11...lol

 

[nemesismk2]

I still have a 939 Dual SATA2 tucked away in a cupboard right now waiting to be used again. Being able to use AGP or PCIE Video Card was the main reason I bought one and it served me well for a number of years.

 

[WT]

I still have a 939 Dual SATA2 tucked away in a cupboard right now waiting to be used again. Being able to use AGP or PCIE Video Card was the main reason I bought one and it served me well for a number of years.

Great board !! Mine's still alive and running very well as a workbench rig. AMD X2 5000 @ 3.1ghz and an Nvidia 7950gx2 for good measure !

Oldest board I have around is a PC-Chips socket 370 M726 with a FCPGA Pentium III 1000 (a 100fsb chip - a very rare bird). Dunno what's more rare than a PC Chips board from 2003 that's still working ?!?

 

[nemesismk2]

Great board !! Mine's still alive and running very well as a workbench rig. AMD X2 5000 @ 3.1ghz and an Nvidia 7950gx2 for good measure !

Oldest board I have around is a PC-Chips socket 370 M726 with a FCPGA Pentium III 1000 (a 100fsb chip - a very rare bird). Dunno what's more rare than a PC Chips board from 2003 that's still working ?!?

Wow I had heard that PC Chips motherboards were not so reliable so maybe you got very lucky lol

 

[nemesismk2]

The very oldest motherboard I have had which lasted me the longest was my Asrock K7S8XE+ SIS748 motherboard which I used with a Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro and AMD Athlon XP 2500 Mobile which I overclocked to 2.5Ghz for a great overclock. Good days

 

[Shredder11]

Wow I had heard that PC Chips motherboards were not so reliable so maybe you got very lucky lol

I first had a 1997 PC Chips M571 Socket 7 based PC donated from my uncle in June 2000 http://m571.com/m571/. This was a good and reliable if very slow PC due to the low bus bandwidth etc, although it was fine for internet and office apps back then. The lack of provision for decent graphics cards and also poor floating point performance, meant it was rubbish for games and multimedia stuff.

My second in 2001 was a 1998 PC Partner MVP3BS7-954 Socket 7 based PC which was excellent and could do decent gaming and multimedia work, along with everything else. The only real issue for me was it would not work with the SoundBlaster Live! PCI card, and there was no solution to this problem, despite numerous attempts by people around the world to solve it including the manufacturer. http://www.cprt.spb.ru/anna/myjournal_.nsf/70c9978db19248c9c3256d64003a5053/58a17f9823d98cd6c3256e2f003bd46a!OpenDocument

So on to my third PC which due to events this week I am forced into using again! I bought this ASUS TUSL2-C Socket 370 board back in January 2002, and I ran it with a Intel Celeron Tualatin 1200MHz for many trouble free years and I even upgraded it to a Pentium III 1.4S (server chip with larger cache and 133MHz bus speed). With the Pentium I easily overclocked it to 1700MHz with something like 165MHz bus speed and it was stable too. All this with very ordinary Infineon RAM and a Zalman copper flower cooler.

I am using this old ASUS PC again because a few days ago, while trying to solve a constant crashing/rebooting problem with my 2005 ABIT AS8 LGA-775 Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz machine, I unintentionally killed the BIOS chip as I flicked the PSU cooling fan blades to get them spinning again, and touched the PSU components and shorted it and also the mains plug fuse. I've flicked the fan blades for the past two years or more and had no problems, but this time I was tired and frustrated late one evening and was less careful. So I am now about to sell a few things and buy a cheap used ASUS motherboard from Ebay. I will possibly get the ASUS P5Q so I can continue to use my Pentium 4 CPU and then grab the most powerful CPU it can take, once I see one dirt cheap in a couple of years time. Oh and for the seven years that I used the ABIT AS8, I found it to be a fast and fairly reliable computer. However it did have issues and was even faulty and unusable upon delivery in 2005 from Scan.co.uk, but they did repair it under guarantee within a week. I recently installed Windows 7 on it easily, but my Leadtek WinFast A350XT FX5900XT AGP graphics card did not have any drivers available.

Oh and my oldest working and still being used computer? Why my Atari STE and Falcon 030 of course! They can actually do certain things better than my modern PCs, such as booting into a pro audio and MIDI music sequencing environment, in less than 30 seconds. Granted I have them very well upgraded, but they would still be as fast back in the 1990s except I could not afford to do that then!

 

[Accutech]

Still have a Timex Sinclair c/w ZX80 processor 2 Kb ram no colour. Still runs like new.
Also have a commodore vic20 and a commodore 64 both still running like champs. The 64 even has an external (get this) 300 baud modem. It will even get on the internet, Awful slow but still it gets there. I also have a collection of processors starting with Intel 8086 and up to Duo core centrino. Most are in systems that still run, A 386sx with a math co-processor. A few AMD based systems, but I always preferred Intel simply because of the fact that AMD has always had an issue with thief FPU (Floating decimal point) If you take an Intel based system and an AMD based system in a business environment The Intel system is always right exactly to the penny while without fail the AMD system will be off by a penny. So what we say but when it is time to do a monthly report for example, If using an AMD system you could be out by dollars (Then you spend a huge amount of time looking for the error, BUT if using an Intel baswd system you are right on to the penny everytime.
How's that for a bit of trivia.

 

[anikhtos]

pii 233
with a 440bx mobo
thats the oldest pc i have kept around
it is still operational
not working it any more but still works
only problem with one memory module or slot so limit me to 256mb than 384
was too lazy to buy sdram and check it out lol so thats 114 year old machine lol

 

[nemesismk2]

Oh and my oldest working and still being used computer? Why my Atari STE and Falcon 030 of course! They can actually do certain things better than my modern PCs, such as booting into a pro audio and MIDI music sequencing environment, in less than 30 seconds. Granted I have them very well upgraded, but they would still be as fast back in the 1990s except I could not afford to do that then!

I have a Atari 1040 STFM which I used to program games on using GFA Basic. Would of loved to own a STE or Falcon though but in the day they were too expensive.

 

[Rubycon]

I'm posting this from a 9 year old tiny Fujitsu P series lifebook. (small as a netbook but has DVD / CDRW drive, firewire, even ESATA!) Way ahead of its time. Cannot put more than 512MB RAM on it and it chugs when playing 480P youtube video. But it can still play the music for our club system as role of backup!

Has the original battery too and charge lasts over 2 hours! Amazing. It cost $3500 new back in 2003. :biggrin: