woohooo this is awesome thread
i was sold my modern pc and build little retro setup by myself too some weeks ago (i do not have need for powerful pc anyway in home, just movies and skype, web browsing etc.). I think it is kinda last moments to use socket A as daily driver, so why not be with it couple of years. I have kinda nostalgic feelings about soc A, i had them 4pcs back in the day they was modern..
cpu: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ @ ~2,4GHz /socekt A
mobo: Asus A7V880 /KT880
mem: 2x1GB Corsair XMS PC4000 dual @ ~440MHz
vid: HIS Radeon HD4670 1GB AGP
sound: Creative SB Live! CT4830
hdd:
rom: Sony Optiarc AD-5280S-01 DVD±RW
psu: 350W enermax
the most complicated part was finding suitable tower cooler and mobo with desired KT800 chipset and suitable mounting holes. btw, amd was told not to use cooler that weights more than 300g with soc A, that big boy is almost 1kg
close enough..
also i need something interesting for ssd/hdd. after long research I was discovered ssd with native SATA-150, Stec Mach 8 - should be working with via 8237 controller what do not have automatic speed detection (wont recognize any sataII or III device) but not yet received that ssd to say if its working here or not. If not im going to use some cool oldschool 10k rpm hdd. at the moment im stuck on really slow laptop hdd