The limit of progress

Ingredients:

• 1.3 years of labour (with liberal doses of procrastination)
• half a bottle of superglue
• clear acrylic
  
• various saws
• $2 assorted grits sandpaper
• ink from Sharpie Minis
• foam from motherboard boxes
• magnets from DX
  

Parts:

• Via C3 1GHz on Gigabyte GA-PCV2-DSI mini-ITX board ($35 posted from ebay)
  
• Coolink chipset cooler for the C3 (99cents from Nintek before they collapsed)
• Zalman ZM-OP1 thin 80mm fan (clearance from Stonebridge)
• 1GB DDR-400 at 266 speeds
• 1TB hard drive (WD10EACS-00D6B0)
• Ritmo IDE to SATA converter
• SHAW 600W PSU (measured 35W under normal use)

Application:
Headless fileserver and torrent box.
It's way too slow for anything else - painfully slow at Flash-enabled webpages eg Neopets games.
Apparently it's somewhere in between a Pentium 2 and Pentium 3.
Power random things like turbo battery chargers and accompanying fans.

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