The socket 370 CPU in the motherboard in the last picture looks like it says 1100Mhz with a 100Mhz FSB... I saw it and did a double take... then I looked more closely and saw that it was a celeron, not a Pentium 3. heh heh... almost! 😁
By the way, this doesn't bother me nearly as much as the people who just snap boards in half or cut off the "gold fingers". I've seen some horrendous carnage over the past few years. I've saved many rare cards from ending up like that. I'm still somewhat scarred by the Ensoniq Soundscape S-2000 (the one with all the headers and the 2MB ROM, not the 1MB OEM model) that I saw a year or so ago with the entire ISA connector sawed off. Or the people who sell sandwich baggies full of "chips" for scrap and you can see at least a few 3dfx chips in there... *shudder*
I'm totally okay with turning stuff that people have no use for into art... it's certainly more environmentally friendly than using noxious chemicals to melt it down for 3 cents worth of precious metals. There's very little likelihood that most PCI express cards will ever be sought after as collectibles unless they represent something specific (like, the earliest ones that may still work in older operating systems or games... or perhaps the last ones that supported VGA or Windows XP), so in my opinion, those are fair game.
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.