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A couple years ago I moved from desktop to laptop. Now I'm moving back to desktop. Building a humble sleeper in an almost new-old-stock Dell Dimension 4600 case (that black and grey one they modeled the CS Source pc after) to fit in with my pile of beige Windows 95/98/XP machines.
I recently learned that Asus still makes motherboards with green PCB's, which is amazing for this kind of build, and I just bought one today. The motherboard also has a full regular DB9 serial port on its rear I/O, a second COM port header, and a PCI slot (not PCIe... the original PCI, which is excellent because I have so many weird interesting PCI cards)... All that retro/vintage goodness, but it's rocking an A520 AM4 chipset, and a PCIe gen 3 x16 port (with 2 more x1 ports). They also make an AM5 and several iterations of Intel socket versions! The AM4 board was on sale for ~$70 USD, and I happen to have a Ryzen 7 2700 kicking around. (Which I just now discovered that isn't compatible with the A520 chipset... oops. Cheap Ryzen 5 5500 it is!)
I'm keeping the floppy drive since I actually still do a lot of work with floppies, I've got a floppy-to-USB board for that, and also picked up a SATA DVD burner, and have 1 additional 5.25" bay that will likely host a rotating cast of random vintage nonsense.