After going through what seemed like a never ending pile of dead computers at work, I got to a few batches of machines with working components. Upon looking up reviews of the parts, all of them seemed to be very high-end components from the 2003 - early 2004 era. The idea quickly came about of throwing together a retro rig and doing some benchmarks, stress tests, and overclocks of the parts to see how much performance you could have 10 years ago.
The Components:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (939 Revision)
ASUS A8V-MX Socket 939 mATX Motherboard
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis Edition 256MB DDR2 (AGP)
OCZ 512MB PC2700 DDR Rev3.2 (DDR 333MHz)
[Lite-On IDE DVD Drive, Toshiba 120GB 2.5" SATA HDD, 92mm fan (3500rpm... -_-), Apevia 420W PSU, Apevia X-Infinity]
*Stay tuned for updates*
http://imgur.com/a/dLUxt#0 < Album so far...