Hi all. Just a few pics of my newest retro project. A 754 rig! This is an emachines t6520 system that I got at the thrift store for $13. It features the following:

MSI 7145 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Venice CPU
2x OCZ DDR500 512MB RAM ( came with two different generic sticks, one was bad)
WD 250gb IDE drive
DVDRW and CD
ATI hd4850 (I know, overkill but the only spare PCI express card I had right now, and I wasn't gonna use onboard)

Wish I had taken pics before I cleaned the case and gave it a spin in the dishwasher. There were enough dust bunnies to knit a sweater, not to mention a lot of residue from a stupid emachines sticker that covered the entire side of the case. I had to work on that for a while with some wd40 and a sponge. Blew it out with my compressor, washed it after removing all the parts which I cleaned individually. Put her back together and she works splendidly, all the extras like the card readers work flawlessly. I've been wanting a 754 rig for a while as that is the only AMD system type I hadn't currently owned from socket 7 through AM3, and also I had one as my main rig from 04-08. Not bad for 13 bucks!