Our current test rig that we use for all testing is actually Marauder's home/gaming/work system. We're not sponsored and we have no money so one computer has to wear many hats. The upside is that at least this is a good excuse to have a decent computer. Excuses are good.

Here's the specs:

Thermal Take Matrix VX mid tower case
MSI P45-Neo Motherboard
Intel Core 2 e8400 CPU
Stock cooling
2 x 2gb Patriot DDR2-800 RAM
150 gig VelociraptorSATA boot hard drive (10,000 RPM)
250 gig Seagate SATA movie editing drive (7,200 RPM)
2x 320 gig Seagate SATA data hard drives (7,200 RPM, mirrored)
Sony 1.44 floppy drive (Yeah, I still use it for work.)
LG 20x DVD-ROM drive
LG 20x DVD-/+RWdrive
MSI Geforce 9800GTX PCI-E video card
Creative Labs SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum sound card
Windows XP Home
Logitech G15 keyboard w. shiny LCD
Logitech G5 optical mouse
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick
2x LG 22" LCD monitor (1650x1050)
Plantronics headphones w. mic.

Total cost on this system is frankly more than I like to think about. So I don't. How does it benchmark? Pretty well I think for a machine that wasn't too expensive. I've listed the old test rigs for comparison.

Old Test Rig Core 2 E6600, 2 gig Corsair Dominator, MSI 8800GTX (2007-2009)

Aquamark - 107,069
3dmark 2001 - not tested
3dmark 2003 - 31,596
3dmark 2005 - 13,574
3dmark 2006 - 9,490
Doom 3 (Timedemo1) Ultra mode:
99.9 fps (1280x1024, aa off)
100.0 fps (1280x1024, aa 2x)
100.1 fps (1280x1024, aa 4x)
89.3 fps (1280x1024, aa 8x)
100.4 fps (1600x1200, aa off)
99.9 fps (1600x1200, aa 2x)
95.8 fps (1600x1200, aa 4x)
71.6 fps (1600x1200, aa 8x)
The 8800GTX wouldn't run any 16x AA tests.

The old AMD XP64 3500+, 2 gig corsair pro, Dual MSI 7800gt SLi (2005-2007)

Aquamark - 67,989
3dmark 2001 - 22,789
3dmark 2003 - 22,890
3dmark 2005 - 9,331
3dmark 2006 - 3,882
Doom 3 (Timedemo1) Ultra mode:
74.6 fps (1024x768, aa off)
73.8 fps (1600x1200, aa off)
72.6 fps (1600x1200, aa 2x)
66.9 fps (1600x1200, aa 4x)
26.3 fps (1600x1200, aa 8x)
26.5 fps (1600x1200, aa 16x)

The old, old AMD XP64 3500+, 2 gig corsair pro, x800 Pro

Aquamark - 60,979
3dmark 2001 - 20,028
3dmark 2003 - 10, 096
3dmark 2005 - 4,867