My tower (which I've been using more than my 5 year old laptop) is ten years old, but you can hardly tell.

Everything in there was top of the line at the time; two Pentium 4's running in parallel @ 3.2Ghz each; 1GB of gold-plated heat sync DDR RAM; AI Series P4P800-E Deluxe mobo; Radeon 9600 Pro; 160GB (not sure on rpm) HDD and a second 120GB drive that failed on me several years back; 5 fans + CPU and HDD cooler; more slots to USB, Floppies, and SD card precursors than you can shake a stick at; Separate CD and DVD writers/readers; blue LEDs; and a sexy case;

Over the years I've had to swap the power supply, but it's only recently that I've bothered to upgrade the graphics card, since AGP cards are spiking in price and this was built before PCIe ports came onto the scene.

I can play HD video now! =0

I still need to upgrade the RAM a bit, but it's difficult finding RAM that will work for this thing at a reasonable price.