[outside1234]

Hilarious - i was just thinking it was overpowered!

It depends on your use case. If you are thinking of this for industrial controls, its overpowered. If you are thinking of this for mining bitcoins, it is underpowered.

[tlrobinson]

(FYI mining Bitcoin can only be reasonably done using custom ASIC hardware these days)

[whyenot]

The funny thing is those ASICs more often than not are hooked up to a RaspberryPi running cgminer or equivalent.

[ris]

So use one of the many existing SO-DIMM sized ARM boards.