[benkant]

Yes, it happens. Though I'm probably not the best example- I can't say I ever really had much use for shiny.

For the longest time I had a crappy K5 based system with 64Mb of RAM running Slackware when all my friends had Pentium 2's and whatever OS ran Quake at the time.

Oh, and I used a pizza box for the "case".

Whatever works for what you're doing.

I will admit though, I lusted over an SGI O2.

[burgerbrain]

How did you ventilate the box, aren't pizza boxes designed to insulate?

[benkant]

The motherboard was inside with the fan sticking out a hole I cut in the top. The PSU and disks were sitting naked on top.