Been a long time coming.
My main gaming rig consists of:
Q6600 2.4 Ghz Quadcore (seven and a half years old)
Gigabyte P35 DS3L (seven and a half years old)
EVGA 8800GT superclocked (eight years old)
4 GB DDR2
Its finally starting to have sporadic bootup. If it does boot, it works fine for days. The only reason it had a Q6600 so early is because I won it as a prize at a tradeshow (that would have been supreme overkill to buy outright at the time)
It had difficulty running medium settings of Team Fortress 2 using windows XP 1920x1080, but is nearly maxed out settings in Windows 10 1920x1080.
Everything short of spending a pile of cash seems to be a sidegrade.