I use a p3-800 w/ 256 mb RAM as a headless file server and music player (via VNC/Foobar2000). I run Win2K. Performance is bleh, but I don't really care. I've had some issues w/ VNC instability and ...
I've got a P3 700mhz with 768MB of RAM (there's 1.5gb total but the BX440 chipset halves it probably due to high-density or double sided DIMMs or something like that) and it runs XP well for such an ...