I just purchased an HP Pavilion 8290 on eBay. $65 shipped. The main reason I bought this PC is because I had an HP 8240 (pentium MMX 233) in my childhood, and was really nostalgic for the case. I think it is one of the best looking 90s PC cases. It is a nice grey, rounded design rather than the usual 90s beige box. The back panel of the case looks really fancy, which is something most PC cases overlook. I managed to find a brand new matching keyboard/palm rest too! Now to track down the matching CRT/polk audio speakers...
Anyways, here are the important specs:
400MHZ Pentium II MMX
Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card
ASUS P2898-XV motherboard with 4 PCI slots+2 ISA
Integrated ATI 3DRAGE Pro
12GB Quantum Bigfoot HDD (dat sound!!!!)
64 MB RAM (it had an additional 128MB stick in there, but it makes the PC not boot)
original DVD drive
upgraded (?) from Win95 to Win Me
It was absolutely filthy when it came in, and reeked of cigarette smoke. I took everything apart and cleaned it out. The smell is about 90% gone now. I think it just needs a new power supply to get rid of the little smell left (I was too scared to clean the insides well). It still had the specs sticker on the front of the case, but the cleaner I was using got on it and melted the ink off it
. Oh well, I can always make another one.