486-120 with 64 MB of RAM

I once used it as a fall back main machine all day while my main machine was under repair. With a little from my Android tablet
for some things that owuldn't work

My "new" media PC is a first generation Core 2 Duo. It is by far the oldest PC I have in use for other stuff than gameing/tinkering.

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My "new" media PC is a first generation Core 2 Duo. It is by far the oldest PC I have in use for other stuff than gameing/tinkering.

😵 I have run a Core 2 Duo E6700 as a main machine for around 2 years. I finally upgraded to a Q9550

The cost to performance gain of new processors isn't enough incentive to upgrade

I would say that any core2duo is still way usable for everyday tasks unless you're planinng to run youtube fullHD on it without gpu acceleration.

Socket 478, P4 3.2E.

phenom ii x4

Lenovo ThinkPad W500 with Windows 7.

Was using a 2003 Powermac G5 2.0 DP as my daily work machine until the PSU busted in April or May 2014. Then I moved on to a Dual Opteron 280 rig.
My daily entertainment machine is a C2D P9700 hackintosh on Nvidia 9300 platform.

I don't work at home, but when I have to, I use Core i5-450m notebook. Generally all I do is 3Ds MAX modelling\rendering or differential equations solving in Mathcad, something at which an old machine would be pretty useless.

For mainly use, iam using an Core I5 2500K sandy bridge, MSI Z68A-GD65(g3) motherboard, 8GB Skill Ripjaws X 1600Mhz, Samsung 830 256GB SSD, Transcend SSD720 512GB SSD games. Coolermaster HAF XM case.
My previous system was AMD Phenom II X4 955BE, 4GB RAM, MSI 790FX-GD70, corsair F120/ 120GB SSD HAF 932 case (i still have this hardware here, but dont use it anymore, maybe i have another destination for it.)
I also have here an Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9650 with a nice ASUS DDR3 board..

In one of my system builds (as 32-bit machine (to run lastest windows xp and vista / w7 games) Uses an Intel core i7 2600K, Asrock Z77 Extreme 6 LGA 1155 (specially for the use of the floppy controller) build in a white corsair graphite (special edition) T600 case. ( As i said iam using that system for pre and w7 games(the older one offcourse, or to play muliplayer)).. But also use this system as 32-bit file transfer system, because my 64-bit system cant handle with older 16-bit software. (cant read out some floppys, cant run them) a 32-bit system is more compatible with older software.

Daily use is a AM2 rig:

ASUS M2V-TVM,1.5GB DDR2,Sempron 3400 1.80GHz,1TB Samsung HDD,Geforce 210 1GB and a Delux MG760-BMW case.

Backup one is a 478 rig:

ASRock P4VM800,1GB DDR400.Pentium 4 1.8A 2.40GHz,80GB WDC SATA HDD,Geforce FX5500 (to be replaced with HD3450 AGP) and a "Infodata" beige case.

Other peripherals on these systems are a card reader on the AM2 system and a 3.5 Floppy drive on the skt478 board.
BTW,both systems run Windows 7. AM2 runs SP1 version and the S478 one runs the RTM version without any service pack.

My Athlon 64 3000+ was active for daily use until very recently... Maybe six months ago.

I've got a Compaq Precsario C700 laptop in my living room by the TV that gets used sometimes. It has a first-generation Conroe-based Pentium dual-core (it's either 1.67GHz or 1.73GHz) and 2GB of RAM. It isn't great but it still works and for checking email or whatnot it's fine. It was also able to hook up to my old SD RPTV, but the new HDTV doesn't have S-Video.

Desktop:

Core 2 Duo 6550 @ 3.5GHz (will probably replace it with a Xeon in the near future)
MSI P45D3 Platinum
8GB DDR3 RAM
7750 1GB (soon to change to accommodate gaming needs)

Laptop:

Some Dell laptop with a Core 2 Duo 1.6Ghz, 3GB RAM, Intel GMA 950 and Windows 7 Starter

The company I work for is still using Core 2 Duos, upgraded from 2 to 8GB ram and from Seagate 160GB to WD Blacks 500GB.
They are still pretty usable, but they are showing their age nowadays...

The oldest computer I keep set up and use regularly is my 1996 Packard Bell Platinum 55. I use a 1987 Epson Apex 80 Dot matrix printer with it. It's primary function is to use Office 97 so I can use excel and word for various things (I'm most familiar with Office 97 and so I just stick to it.). It's a Pentium 200MMX with 128MB RAM.

Here is a photo of how I have it set up at the moment.

However my daily driver is a Core 2 Duo 3Ghz E8400 with 8GB ram that is capable of running modern games and doing everything a modern computer is expected to.
I've done it up to look like a much older computer.
Here it is:

My server, Opteron 1218 on a Supermicro motherboard runs 24/7. Before that upgrade it was a P3 1Ghz Compaq server, before that I ran a Dual PPro overdrive 333 for a decade or more.

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Desktop:

Core 2 Duo 6550 @ 3.5GHz (will probably replace it with a Xeon in the near future)
MSI P45D3 Platinum
8GB DDR3 RAM
7750 1GB (soon to change to accommodate gaming needs)

Laptop:

Some Dell laptop with a Core 2 Duo 1.6Ghz, 3GB RAM, Intel GMA 950 and Windows 7 Starter

I've got a 6550 (at stock 2.3GHz) in another machine too - they're nice processors. Runs fairly cool. 😀

King_Corduroy: That Core 2 machine is more of a sleeper than it has any right to be... 🤣 Very nice! 😎

Athlon 64 3200+ at 2300mhz ,2G ram , radeon 9600 pro 256 mb,250 g sata harddrive.