I was recently given one of these:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?I … N82E16883113249

It has an AMD E1-1200 dual core, 4GB DDR3 (single channel), a 500GB hard drive, and enough space and slots to work with inside the tiny case to maybe use it for something.

Its far too slow and outdated for me to bother using it for anything modern. That CPU is slower than anything I've used in my main PC since having a single core Athlon 64 back in 2004. The very best I could shoehorn into the ITX tower for a few hundred bucks would barely compete with the HP laptop I picked up on clearance recently for $225 (i5 7300HQ Quad Core, 2GB RX550, 12GB DDR4, 1TB HDD... and added a 250GB MX500 M.2 drive for $60). My HTPC\file server has an i7 4790 and a 1050 Ti... there's just no reason I'd bother using something as slow as an AMD E1.

So... what should I do with it? I could probably sell it and get $50 out of it, but I don't know... it has an 80Plus Bronze power supply, uses very little power (could use less with a cheap SSD thrown in), it has a decent layout and it actually has a standard removable IO shield so a different motherboard could be installed easily. I already own a small form factor (maybe ITX) Gateway system with an Intel i810 chipset (low profile PCI only, no AGP; permanent IO shield), and haven't found much use for it since its hard to find useful retro parts that are low profile, and even then it'd be hard to justify the cost and time spent looking for something specific.

If anyone can think of anything more useful to do with this thing, retro or otherwise, I'm interested to hear some ideas. I don't really "need" it, I just don't want to sell it off quickly if there's some other use for it. I do also have another AMD E2 board that uses an external power brick that would technically fit into this case if needed. It'd be slightly faster and would then eliminate the need for the power supply in the case... but that seems odd to do unless there's a very good reason. Giving the computer to someone who needs one is a possibility, but I'd rather just give someone something 5 times faster and somewhat larger so they don't hate it.