Yes. I've a Windows box, C2Duo, good Intel MB and 500GB HDD laying around and instead of putting W7 there, I want to put a Snow Leopard there. May I ask what is the "messing around" included/needed?
A lot of "messing around".
As he stated: Since you're asking how to do it, you shouldn't even try it.
Basically:
1. Find some files on the Internet, put them in a CD or a pendrive.
2. Boot your computer with that CD/pendrive.
3.
If the files were the correct ones, put the Snow Leopard DVD (or USB stick).
4. Install it.
5. Manually install the correct files for almost every device of your computer. When I say "manually", I mean that you won't have the convenience of running a driver installer and just click "next". You'll have to find in some discussion forum the correct kernel extensions and frameworks to make things like VGA, sound card, LAN, chipset, wireless and some other things to work. Put these files in the correct system folders, apply correct permissions to them and reboot the computer.
6. Install a bootloader to make OS X think that your computer is a Mac.
7. Configure that bootloader with proper files and strings in plist files.
8. Done.
I'd say that, if you're good at quickly learning computer things, you'd take something like 5 to 7 days (assuming that you need to use your time to work, study or simply go out) to correctly install Snow Leopard in your PC (non-Mac).