these are the 3 machines only that I will test the installed software/hardware on, the variations could be endless but gives you a good idea

 

Machine 1 Motherboard *ASUS A8V - mainboard - ATX - K8T800 Pro
Chipset Type *VIA K8T800 Pro / VIA VT8237
Max Bus Speed *1000 MHz
Processor * Socket 939
Processors *Athlon 64,
Memory *512 MB (installed) / 4 GB (max)
Storage Controller *ATA-133, Serial ATA-150 (RAID)
Audio Output *Sound card - VIA VT8237 - 7.1 channel surround
Networking *Network adapter - Marvell Yukon 88E8001 - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
*500W ATX 2.0 NVIDIA CERT Sli/SATA 4+8+24pin PSU
Processor installed *Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHZ S939 512KB FSB1000 Venice
Graphics card *NVIDIA GeForce 6200 256MB DVI TV OUT AGP (with latest drivers)
Hard drive *DiamondMax 10 250Gb 16Mb Cache 7200rpm ATA133 HDD

Windows XP Sp2 and any and all updates
Keyboard, mouse and Samsung SyncMaster 940N
Firefox browser, internet connection, APC backup unit with software
no other software apart from that installed, hard drive backed up using Ghost 2003 and system will be 'restored' at end
 
Machine 2 tCPU * LGA775 socket for latest Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron processor
* FSB 800/533 MHz
* Support Hyper-Threading Technology
Chipset * VIAŽ P4M800 & VT8237R
* North Bridge: VIAŽ P4M800
* South Bridge: VIAŽ VT8237R
Memory * Single-channel DDR memory architecture
* 2 x 184-pin DDR DIMM socket support up to 2 GB
* Support DDR400/333 2.5V DDR SDRAM
Installed * 1gb memory installed
Graphics * Integrated S3 UniChrome Pro 2D/3D Graphics, Share memory : 64MB (disabled)
Added *ATI Radeon X1600PRO 512MB DDR2 AGP VGA DVI TV (latest drivers)
Audio * Realtek ALC655 6-Channel audio CODEC Compliant with AC'97 2.3 specification
LAN * VIAŽ VT6103L 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet PHY
CPU *Pentium 630J 3.0Ghz 800FSB 2MB Socket 775
Hard drive *DiamondMax 10 250Gb 16Mb Cache 7200rpm ATA133 HDD

Windows XP Sp2 and any and all updates
Keyboard, mouse and Samsung SyncMaster 940N
Firefox browser, internet connection, APC backup unit with software
no other software apart from that installed, hard drive backed up using Ghost 2003 and system will be restored' at end
 
Machine 3 Motherboard Asus A7N8X-E
CPU *AMD 2700+ 3DNow
Chipset *Nvidia
Memory *PC2700 184pin SDram
Installed *1280 mb
Graphic *Geforce FX 5900XT 256mb DDR
Audio *onboard Nvidia nforcre ALC 650 (Realtek)
Lan *Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010
Hard drive *DiamondMax 10 250Gb 16Mb Cache 7200rpm ATA133 HDD

Windows XP Sp2 and any and all updates
Keyboard, mouse and Samsung SyncMaster 940N
Firefox browser, internet connection, APC backup unit with software, Norton internet seruity, Poser Studio 9 in fact every piece of software I own which by the listing would take me forever to write, this is my main "working machine" and I hope this will be a 'real' life test as opposed to "test" machines
Hard drive backed up using Ghost 2003 and system will be 'restored' at end