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We build a lot of big rigs here at ExtremeTech. Whether it’s ExtremeTech Killer Gaming Rig, our latest Home Theater PC, with its massive 750GB hard drive or even the $800 Gaming PC, our systems lean towards high horsepower CPUs and GPUs.

But what if you don’t need all that horsepower? Recently, Joel Durham took a stab at that, building a $400 PC, while ExtremeTech reader Christian Joaquin Cruz took a stab at a Solaris-based PC for around $300. Even those efforts, while lower in cost, do take up some space, generate noise, and consume substantial amounts of power.

What if you really wanted a small PC just for web and email? Here at the Case House, we often have a need for a communal system to quickly check email or browse web sites for shopping or homework. Most of the real work gets done on personal PCs, while important files are stored on a RAID 5 NAS server. So a small PC that fits into a small space would be ideal.

Meet the fit-PC. Continued…