So, as I understand, someone wants to give a boints only for tests with new,fresh hardware? It will destroy the idea of competition. I don't have spare 2000 $ for new 2x8800 ULTRA and one more 1000 $ for 4x core processor. On my work there is a lot of machines with pentium or celeron 800 MHz MAXIMUM - and people work on it.
Try to delete all old results - and many members delete hwbot from their life.
At this moment I have motherboard with integrated Cyrux GX Media 166 MHz - and I'll make this machine to be work. And I'll try to test it.
So, it's the administration right what to do - stay old hardware or delete it.