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Checked my photo archives, and apparently I only took pictures of my desktop partially assembled while constructing it, and they were even more potato-quality than killkenny1's pictures, thanks to being from not the my dumbphone that preceeded my smartphone, but the dumbphone before that. Since it'd require some actual effort to get decent quality photos, stock photos will have to do. Though I'm still somewhat surprised I have more pictures of dragonfruit than my desktop.

The case is the Antec P280:

It's actually pretty big, though the stock photo doesn't make that clear. It's designed to be quiet, and I've been pretty happy with it. Other than when I briefly had a reference R9 290X, a card infamous for being noisy, it's always been pretty quiet.

After a few piecemeal upgrades over the years, it has:

Dell U2412M monitor
Core i5 2500K CPU
CoolerMaster 212 Evo CPU cooler
Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 GPU
8 GB G. Skill DDR3, 1600 MHz
DVD R/W drive, plus Blu-Ray R/DVD R/W drive (upgraded in 2013)
Vintage mid-'90s floppy drive (not currently functioning due to lack of mobo support, though likely still in working condition)
Gigabyte Z68 motherboard (4x USB 3.0)
Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600
Gigabyte M7 Thor wired mouse (replaced disintegrating Microsoft Sidewinder X3 in 2014; I like big mice)
$30-ish Logitech speakers from MicroCenter
Grado S80 headphones (upgraded from Sennheiser HD 280 Pro in late 2013)
2 TB 7200 RPM Toshiba HDD (replaced WD 5400 RPM in 2013)
2 TB 5400 RPM WD HDD (backup)
256 GB MX-100 (upgraded to in 2014)
80 GB Intel 320 SSD (now booting Linux)

So, HDD, SSD, mouse, headphone, and speakers is what I've changed since it was new. Might do a refresh next year, but am still pretty happy with the core components' performance.

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