Since I've been slacking off on the Windows Home Server Cube, I threw something together over the last few days to get me back into the swing of things.

The breadbox had an aluminum shelf inside, about 16"x 7.5". I also had a Commell LE-370Z. Hmmm, that's a nice and tiny board, pretty much the same as what I'd used in this system. That one was pretty small, but I decided to see just how small of a working system I could build with that board. Since the board is 4" x 5.75" x ~1" tall, I knew I wanted to stay as close to that size as possible. I ended up at 2.5" x 4.5" x 6.5", which I think is pretty damned good. Anyway, some specs, then some pics.

Commell LE-370Z with onboard Celeron-M 600MHz(Banias core, 0K L2 cache)
512MB DDR400@266MHz(but really good timings)
40GB Seagate Momentus 5400.2 2.5" hard drive
Broadcom 802.11a/b/g Mini-PCI wireless with external antenna
60 watt external power brick

And the pics, case was bent on an 18" break from Harbor Freight.










I'll be cutting and bending a cover from some leftover mesh I have. May also add some feet just to get it off the desk. Doesn't require any real cooling, either. Should be fine without a fan, idling at the BIOS screen the whole system only pulls 18 watts of power. It also performs as good or better than most VIA C3 boards.