Anyone else have a circa 2003 PC in use ?

[Baron]

My daughter brought her PC (which she bought 2nd hand a couple of years ago) to get rid of a virus.........XP Anti Spy.........which complete took over her machine and would not allow access to the internet without paying for the damn programme.
MSE was also stuffed.
Anyway, a system restore in safe mode from the beginning of the month brought the machine back to fully working again, and then turned off sys restore to delete the previous saves and once sorted turn it on again.
Using DDS and Gmer, MSE (now updated and working) and MBAM to do a few scans and checks all is fine.

Her machine is a Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo L with a Sempron 2.6Ghz, 2 x 500MB Corsair memory, Seagate Barracuda 250GB HDD, Asus P4GE-FSC mAtx board, and a Nvidia Riva TNT2 with a Delta Electronics model DPS300MB 8 - 300W Psu.
I think it has been upgraded a bit.....I put in the Corsair memory to beef it up a bit, but the CD Rom, cpu and gfx card are the originals.
The battery was dodgy as the BIOS kept resetting itself to Nov 2001 confusing the machine as well, so I have shoved another one in.

I can tell, you are all bored now.........but just wondering if anyone has old machines still going strong ?

Runs pretty well and does what she wants which is surf, email and watch a few videos on youtube.

[mariush]

Yeah, but I don't know if it's as old as 2003...

My sister has a Duron 1100 Mhz, socket A (I think) motherboard , with 3x512 MB DDR1 and it had a 40 GB drive but I donated to her one of my 200 GB drives to her after I bought her a SATA controller (the motherboard only had ide).

Other than that, I should still have at my parents' house a HP Vectra with a 486 processor and 64 or 128 MB of memory - used to have a ~ 512MB Fujistsu SCSI drive on that with it's own SCSI Adaptec ISA controller... oh yeah and it also had a Mitsumi 1x CD-Rom, the kind that ejects a "cartridge" style thing which then you open up and put the cd in the spin thing that looks similar to laptop cd trays.

It was a good enough system for my first and second year of university, around the time when P3 and Duron 800Mhz something started to pop up.

[MrWicked1968]

I have a DFI PA33 running a P3 933 s370 via slotket adapter, 256mb ECC PC66, Radeon 7000 video card, 40gb hdd w/win2k. Powered by a PC P&C 430w Turbo-Cool

[370forlife]

I just build a nostalgia machine yesterday. Its a Abit BX6 with a 400mhz p2, 192mb PC133, 4.3GB WD hard drive, mitsumi 32x cd-rom and some sort of ATI AGP graphics card with some sort of sli card hooked up, I got them for free and just kind of grabbed them before someone else did. I just got it built yesterday and I have yet to even install the OS but it posts and goes through the bios just fine.

[rafal_iB_PL]

I just build a nostalgia machine yesterday. Its a Abit BX6 with a 400mhz p2, 192mb PC133, 4.3GB WD hard drive, mitsumi 32x cd-rom and some sort of ATI AGP graphics card with some sort of sli card hooked up, I got them for free and just kind of grabbed them before someone else did. I just got it built yesterday and I have yet to even install the OS but it posts and goes through the bios just fine.

You know it's an old machine, when SLI doesn't mean "two or more nVidia cards". ;)

Same if mobo uses AUX connector.

[Mi7chy]

I've got several workstations at home up to dual-socket dual-core Intel Woodcrest 3GHz but the one I use most often is a circa 2003 Shuttle motherboard and AMD Athlon XP 2500 because it just works, I can leave it on forever and never have to reboot it for any reason (memory leak, instability, etc.) and it has recovered gracefully from a number of power outages with no data loss/corruption. Thinking forward the ideal replacement for a general purpose workstation (browsing, reading PDF's, email, YouTube/stream video, Google apps, etc.) is a stable low power ARM based running Android variant. I can see why Intel and Microsoft are worried these days.

[cypherpunks]

That's 2004, not 2003, but it's an everyday use machine, so maybe I get something for that. (The MHz is currently throttled; it runs 2200 MHz under load.)

I unfortunately forget whether it's 130 or 90 nm.
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 39
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1000.000
cache size : 1024 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl pni lahf_lm
bogomips : 2044.31
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

[cypherpunks]

Just had a look at the BIOS dates. That one is dated January 2006 (although I know I updated it at least once, and in fact swapped the motherboard when the original died). The one I'm typing on now is 08/23/2004, and the company web server is a P4 with a BIOS dated (drum roll, please!) 11/22/2001.

If it's fast enough for the job, why switch?

[walterm]

Use a Compaq Presario SR1230NX Athlon XP 3200+ (2.2 130mm Barton) 05 I think, web surfer.

[LxMxFxD]

I worked on my gf's dad's athlon XP (32bit cpu) last week @ 1150mhz with 768MB of DDR1 ram. Graphcs was a monster Geforce MX 440 64MB. It needed a HD replacement. Pulled out the HD from 2001 (40GB ide) and was amazed it lasted for 10+ years running 24/7. Replaced it with an 80GB IDE I had in my closet.

It ran windows xp sp3 like a champ after reinstall. Youtube could be watched at 360 only, 480p had dropped frames. Heh. Bet he'll have this machine for another 3 years, barring hardware failure. Some people only want to surf & watch DVDs.

[rty]

At home we recently retired a 1000 mhz Duron.

[larrymoencurly]

I typically use a 1.6 GHz Socket A (462) motherboard from 2005 (replaced capacitors -- 3 popped, never a reboot) powered by a vintage 1999 Delta 300W power supply (original capacitors, all Japanese, and 3 years ago sampled several and all tested fine for ESR).

I also have some Dell Pentium 4 GX270 machines about the same age that had been part of the capacitor recall (missed it by a year), with about 6 new caps per mobo.

[Phaedrus2129]

Athlon XP "Barton" 2600+ 1917MHz (OC'd to 2200MHz)
2x512MB Super Talent DDR 400 CL2.5
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
ATI Radeon X1300 Pro (formerly Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB)
Three IDE hard drives of various origins
Zippy/Emacs RF5300-v2 300W
Antec NSK6580

[jonnyGURU]

My daughter's machine. It's a refurb eMachines that I got from Tiger Direct for around $200.

I would say my wife's machine too, which is also a refurb eMachines, but the MSI motherboard in it died last year and I had to replace it. So I guess everything BUT the motherboard is pre-2003. ;) Still does everything she needs it to do, so no reason upgrading or replacing it.

[Serious Sam]

I was using a pentium2 333mhz some 1 year ago because of certain stupidities. I modified it fully but still it was slow enough not to play 360p youtube videos. it played the dvdrips fine (till 2mbps bitrate with above normal in taskbar), browsing net was good enough too. As usual Internet explorer
was fast on it, and Firefox was slow. but i used FF. Chrome never worked in it :p.