Older systems gift, upgrade or discard?

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My neighbour gave me 3 (half) old systems, is one or a combination of the parts worth assembly and/or upgrading?

Asus p5s800-vm (no cpu, 2x256mb kvr333 pc2700)
asrock-p4i65g (p4 1,8ghz)
msi- ms-6788 i865/pe/g/i848p (working system, by times inresponsive/unstable):
p4 prescott 478 3,2Ghz / 2x512mb kvr400 pc3200, Asus ati radeon HD 3600 series 512mb RV635 on a 400watt power supply.

seagate barracude 7200.11 500gb sata
maxtor 40gb ata
samsung 60gb ata
2x LG super multi dvd rewriter ( 1x ata and 1x sata)
1x LG DVD-ROM ata
a pile of fans, cpu coolers(evercool, spire), cables etc.

To be more specific: Which is the best of this three motherboards and Is it worth buying the needed parts to make it work? Is a 775 cpu generally faster than a 478? I would prefer to make the asus mobo work with a series 7 nvidia. I'm not a big fan of the graphic card provided or ati in general.

Thanks in advance.

I forgot to mention these are all AGP 8x systems
 
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It might be very hard or impossible to find a graphics card for agp 8x, everything has been made for the pci-e interface for a long time now. There "might" be a odd card made for agp, but I wouldn't get my hopes up espcially for anything high end. They are so old that spending money on them is propably a waste, you would have to find used parts mostly anyway. Any working systems should still be good enough for web surfing and such, or playing some old games.
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It might be very hard or impossible to find a graphics card for agp 8x, everything has been made for the pci-e interface for a long time now. There "might" be a odd card made for agp, but I wouldn't get my hopes up espcially for anything high end. They are so old that spending money on them is propably a waste, you would have to find used parts mostly anyway. Any working systems should still be good enough for web surfing and such, or playing some old games.
 
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Thanks, you kinda confirmed my expectations. On auction sites there are several bargains to be made but spending money on a 10 year old system seems like a waste, the performance gain is minimal compared to the money spent. I managed to build 2 working systems (XP and 7) without any money spent. It was a gift and now it's fun to play some old multiplayer games with the kids. A nice gift, nothing more :)
 
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