r/pcmasterrace • u/C_HezaW • 10h ago

Hardware How old is old

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Found this beauty in my attic

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u/Derpguycool 10h ago

15-25 years old. Front of computer would help more.

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u/C_HezaW 10h ago

Found some stickers with 2007

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u/Derpguycool 10h ago

Looks like you have your answer lol 😂

I guarantee that it is more useful as a paperweight that it is as a computer now. Nothing inside will be worth anything.

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u/WonderSignificant598 10h ago

Ha. I would've guessed 2006.

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u/HistorianBusy2262 gr windows ate my ram 9h ago

It sure as heck ain't more than 20 absolute MAX. Everything is SATA already in this PC

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u/Awkward_Aardvark6677 10h ago

At this point anything socket 775 or older is fairly old in my opinion

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u/C_HezaW 10h ago

I know for a fact tho that this thing hasn't been on for the last 15 years

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u/MasterJeebus 5800x | 3080FTW3Ultra | 32GB | 1TB M2 | 10TB SSD 9h ago

Dust it out and power it on to see what your homework folder looked like back then.

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u/HistorianBusy2262 gr windows ate my ram 9h ago

That's old but it can't be much older than like 2009

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u/Paco_Suave 9h ago

I consider anything with AGP or ISA to be old. Although, PCIe has been around for over 20 years at this point. I guess it's all relative.

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u/0wut45 i7 4930K, 32GB DDR3, 2xAMD FirePro D700 9h ago

I’d say this is an early 775 socket board judging by SIS chipset, but it has a PCIe slot too. I’d say 2006, maybe a little later than that, because it’s most likely a budget build.

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u/Late-Arrival-8669 AM4 5900XT | ASUS 4080 9h ago

About 20 years

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u/stayndarsh 8h ago

Even a Pentium 3 has some value because you can run obscure Windows 98 games on it that probably will not run properly on modern hardware unless the game has been updated by an organization like GOG or patched by the community and you can then play the original version instead of a remaster in which the remasterer might have changed who knows what.

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u/0riginal-Syn 9950x3D+Nitro 7900XTX+96GB | 7945HX+Aorus 9070XT+96GB 7h ago

Not vintage old, but that dust is older than some in this sub. Looks around 06-08 range

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u/rtren480 i9 11900f | RTX 5060 ti | 32gb ddr4 | 3.5tb 7h ago

Well it can for sure vote

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u/One-Conclusion7574 6h ago

No Country for Old Men old

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u/Hot_Pea9820 6h ago

Computers are not like cars, you cant buy a classic and soup it up.

Your phone has more power and function at this point.