My main current PC is probably one of the oldest/slowest on the forum. I built it in 2008, and never bothered upgrading it much because it always does what I want it to do just fine. I'm not really a big "current gen" gamer and don't really aspire to be. Mostly I use it for internet access, e-mail, video editing/production, writing/composing/recording music for both my band (Zombie Jihad) and my solo projects, that and doing tasks to keep the vintage beasts running. Sometimes I do some VMs on it but being as most of my VM's are Clinton era or older O/S I don't really need 4+ Cores, 32GB of RAM, and Hyperthreading to keep the machine happy.
SPECS
CASE: Antec 300
PSU: Corsair 700 Watt
MoBo: ABIT AW9D LGA 775 with AWARD BIOS
CPU: Intel Pentium D 3.40 GHz Presler Core, though I have a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 in the wings to throw in there. Occasionally I have bumped the chip up to 4GHz, seems strangely happy there when the thermal unit's nice and cleaned up and the paste has been refreshed.
THERMAL: Zalman Fatalility Cooler + the two fans that came with the case
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800
FDD: 1.44MB 3.5" (for making DDO Diskettes for the 486 and 286)
HDD: four SATA Drives, I think a 60G, an 80G, a 256GB, and a 1TB, + an 80GB PATA from my PIII
OPT: DVD-RW drive out of a Dell Dimension 9400, not sure what speed, don't care, it works
OTHER: USB Media Bay Reader
GFX: NVIDIA 8800GT 512MB, $300 well spent at the time I built this thing in 08', it STILL performs excellent for what I need/want to do
SND: Rocketfish badged SoundBlaster Audigy 7.1 card, PCI, have it because it has hardware loopback, which I need for recording music
NET: Built-In Gigabit LAN
O/S: Windows 7 x64 and Mint Linux Cinnamon, will be moving to Windows 10 when the upgrade becomes available.
PERIPHERY: Old Laser AT 101 Key Keyboard from a 286, Logitech Marble Mouse, some generic blue gamepad that looks like a deluxe PlayStation controller (mostly used with emulators or DOSBOX), and a pair of 3rd hand LCD's (An NEC and a Enlight). I also recently added a PCI-E USB 3.0 card to it as well.
Here's that thing, kind of ugly and mismatched, but again, it works great so I just keep on running it. This was taken when I took the floppy out for awhile.
