CPU= Socket 775 Xeon, I don't remember specifics but it has 4 cores and 12MB of cache. It was an upgrade from a core2quad.
RAM= 8 GB of DDR2 (pretty sure it's the maximum that this board supports)
Board= New old stock intel or something like that
Drives= Windows 7 Ultimate on a 250GB SSD and another drive being an HGST 2TB, mostly games and other stuff on that one.
Sound Card= Soundblaster X-Fi (I'm not much of an audiophile, but I just like having a Soundblaster in my PCs)
GPU= Nvidia GT 730 (i think)
USB 3.0 Card, the board doesn't have USB 3.0, but the case does, so I figured I may as well take advantage of it. The only USB 3 device I have is my phone and I honestly can't tell if it makes any difference...
PSU, Rosewill, modular. I think this is great, hardly and clutter at all, I don't have to do the old 'stuff the rat's nest of wires in an unused drive bay routine.
Two optical drives, mostly just because. I remember seeing lots of expensive computers when I was a young teen in the early 2000s with two optical drives and I figured I may as well since I have several loose ones. There's something about multiple drives hat makes a computer look more 'serious', that I like.
The Floppy/Memory card combo works only with memory cards. The board has no floppy support, when used in a board that did have floppy support it didn't work... So the floppy drive is only for decoration I'm afraid. I'm a fan of anachronistic hardware so I would have liked it to have a functional floppy drive...
The case originally had a door on it, but I didn't see the point so I snapped it off. It's the first computer that I built from loose parts rather than upgrading OEM stuff like I usually did.
Every now and then I contemplate getting a new board because of new technology like uefi, gpt, nvme/M.2 SSDs, newer cpu instruction sets, but this thing does everything I need it to do so I never do upgrade. Maybe I'll get a new monitor 120hz refresh rate or IPS? That's the question... 😜, maybe when those PCIe SSD drives get cheaper I'll get one of those to boot off of for faster read write speeds that I probably won't notice.
It does web browsing, word processing, Audio/Video entertainment, e-mail and communication just fine. I'm not a heavy gamer, I mostly dabble in emulation, source ports, romhacks, etc. So the older Nvidia card handles everything easily. The board only has PCIe 2.x so it can't take full advantage of it anyway.