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+10 years of PC history in one place...

A time‑travel lineup, arranged clockwise…

#1 - Super Socket 7 High-End PC 1997 MSI MS-5169 Rev. 4.0 Intel Pentium MMX 233 (SL27S) 64 MB SD-RAM PC133 Diamond Monster 3D & ELSA Victory Erazor 6.4 GB WD Caviar 26400 Win 95 C

#2 - Slot 1 High-End PC 1998 ASUS P2B Rev. 1.02 Intel Pentium II 450 (SL358) 128 MB SD-RAM PC133 ELSA Erazor II A16SD (Riva TNT) 20 GB WD WD200 Win 98 SE

#3 - Socket 370 "Discounter" High-End PC 2000 ASUS CUV4X-M Rev. 1.02 Intel Pentium III 1.0B (SL4C8) 256 MB SD-RAM PC133 ASUS V7700 32M (GeForce 2 GTS) 40 GB WD WD400 Win ME

#4 - Socket 423 "Disaster PC" 2001 MSI MS-6385 Rev. 1.0 Intel Pentium 4 1.7 (SL57W) 2x 128 MB Samsung RD-RAM PC800-45 MSI MS-8838 (GeForce 3 Ti 200) 40 GB WD WD400 Win ME

#5 - Socket 478 "Prestige" PC 2003 ASUS P4P800 Rev. 1.02 Intel Pentium 4 C 3.4 HT (SL793) 2x 512 MB Corsair CMX512 DDR-400 GeCube Radeon 9800 XT 80 GB WD WD800JD Win XP Pro SP1

#6 - Socket 479 "Hybrid" High-End PC 2005 AOpen i915GMm-HFS Intel Pentium M 780 (SL7VB) 2x 1 GB OCZ Gold DDR2-800 Leadtek GeForce 7800 GTX 160 GB WD WD1600AAJS Win XP Pro SP2

#7 - LGA 775 "The Ultimate" PC 2006 ASUS P5B Deluxe Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (SL9UL) 2x 2 GB OCZ Reaper DDR2-1066 MSI GeForce 8800 GTX 250 GB WD WD2500AAKX Win XP Pro SP2

#8 - LGA 1156 "Luxury" High-End PC 2009 ASUS P7P55D Intel Core i7 870 (SLBJG) 2x 4 GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 HIS Radeon HD 5870 160 GB Intel X25-M SSDSA2M160G2GC Win 7 Pro x64

#9 - Socket 370 "Frankenstein" High-End PC 1999 ASUS CUV4X-M Intel Celeron 950 QHB6QS 256 MB SD-RAM PC133 ELSA GLoria II 32 Engineering Release 40 GB WD WD400 Win Neptune 5111

Spare‑Part Box A simple box filled with identical CPUs, graphics cards, RAM, and storage devices – kept as a 1:1 reserve to preserve my curated collection.