Thanks for the replies. Apologies for taking so long to get back, went fishing over the weekend. Caught a couple of trout and drank some good beer. Stuff I know: After a little more research I narrowed down the CPU to an Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L 1.6GHz. It is inexpensive, efficient and has enough ...

I plan on building out a Linux Server for the following uses. Running Slimserver. Running Apache with a Subversion repository on it. Running Samba General backup and file server Will probably use it to convert FLAC to MP3's in batch jobs. 1 TB of storage for now, will probably need to double it late...

bonestonne: The reason I chose the 640 MB video is because I will be driving a 24" LCD at 1920 x 1200 resolution. I've read that more memory helps when driving such a display. I'll keep using Fedora most likely. Yes I use grub. Lensman: The fans I wasn't sure about, some folks say go faster while ot...

I've been reading through SPCR for the past couple of months in preparation for my next build. Wish I had found SPCR 5 years ago when I did my last. I tried for quiet, but instead got a noisy whiny beast. This time I hope to do better. Goals in no particular order, they are pretty much weighted equa...