Core memories for me were my pc builds for the Athlon Thunderbird and later the Athlon 64 FX-60. What an experience it was to fire those machines up and feel the absolutely gigantic performance improvements.

I had a Soltek socket 754 build with chrome OCZ memory and a 9800 pro that was flashed to XT. I loved that the motherboard was black/purple.

Makes me want to play need for speed underground and drink some bawls energy