This poor PC was destined for electrical waste at work, having failed after working in a room with a 40-45C ambient for a few years, much of it at near 100% CPU load. Some useful parts had been removed from it, and the point of failure was the PSU (which seems to have failed from a combination of heat and voltage surges). A working replacement PSU, some RAM to replace what had been taken out, a replacement hard drive caddy (which had also been removed), and an old hard drive stripped out of a free Sky+ box brought it back to useable condition and cost under £20. It's got an Intel Core i3-2100 3.1GHz CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and a 500GB Seagate HDD (with over 78,000 hours logged and no reallocated or pending sectors). It's running Slackware 15.0 and is used headless on my home network, mainly as a sort of storage overflow server.
