Was thinking about the last time I actually started from a clean slate with my PC, it's been YEARS. Please post your histories and i'd be interested how far back your current pc can trace it's lineage. Cases/psu/hdd don't count.
I can trace mine all the way back to the Athlon xp era in 2003.
Can't remember exact details but I had a couple of motherboard replacements due to failures, upped the RAM from it's original 2x256MB to 4x256 to 2x1024, and went from a Geforce ti4200 to a Radeon 9700Pro (which died quickly) to 6800GT
Summer '06 went over to the Intel team - ASRock motherboard (handy thing could take both AGP and PCI-E, and DDR or DDR2) with an E6600, moved over the AGP Geforce 6800GT and some DDR from my old Athlon setup
Autumn '06 switched over to DDR2 at some point, got a PCI-E radeon x1900xtx.
Winter '06 changed case/motherboard to a Shuttle SD37P2
Spring '07 Radeon died so I got a 8800gts 320MB
Winter '07 changed HDD for RAID0 raptors
Summer '08 got a new 24" monitor which neccesitated an upgrade to 8800gtx 768MB, Got 4GB DDR2
Shuttle died a month later so I moved into a Sugo case and mATX mobo
Upgraded to Q6600 cpu
Spring '09 sold Raptors off whist they were still worth something, got a Samsung F1 320GB
Autumn '09 upgraded to SSD.
So there we go, I've had the same PC since 2003!
I can trace mine all the way back to the Athlon xp era in 2003.
Can't remember exact details but I had a couple of motherboard replacements due to failures, upped the RAM from it's original 2x256MB to 4x256 to 2x1024, and went from a Geforce ti4200 to a Radeon 9700Pro (which died quickly) to 6800GT
Summer '06 went over to the Intel team - ASRock motherboard (handy thing could take both AGP and PCI-E, and DDR or DDR2) with an E6600, moved over the AGP Geforce 6800GT and some DDR from my old Athlon setup
Autumn '06 switched over to DDR2 at some point, got a PCI-E radeon x1900xtx.
Winter '06 changed case/motherboard to a Shuttle SD37P2
Spring '07 Radeon died so I got a 8800gts 320MB
Winter '07 changed HDD for RAID0 raptors
Summer '08 got a new 24" monitor which neccesitated an upgrade to 8800gtx 768MB, Got 4GB DDR2
Shuttle died a month later so I moved into a Sugo case and mATX mobo
Upgraded to Q6600 cpu
Spring '09 sold Raptors off whist they were still worth something, got a Samsung F1 320GB
Autumn '09 upgraded to SSD.
So there we go, I've had the same PC since 2003!