While I do live in Alaska, I don't live in the really cold part of Alaska, just the cool all the time part. That said, I don't really need an extra room heater, it was just an oversite on my part that resulted in my mention of the 9850 instead of the 9650. I think I had looked at the 9650 earlier, t...

Upon further review, it appears that the only Gigabyte options with integrated video are mATX boards. I'm not sure about other vendors. I'm not really sure whether I'm better off going with the on-board graphics, or a separate card that maybe is not so powerful as to require a lot of cooling. Howeve...

Yeeah, why did I do that? Hmm, here in Denmark we have a very handy (but not quite all-encompassing) shopping portal, and I guess that's what came out of my filters. I was looking for something that has a VGA connector as well as 4 SATA connectors. The P35 looks good, and costs nearly the same. Con...

Yes, it does, now that you mention it. I spent quite a bit of time reading through that thread, and for some reason it didn't occur to me how similar what you were doing is to what I want. I guess it was fairly early on in the process, and as you suggested there, all of the options are enough to mak...

I'm looking to put together a reasonably quiet computer with a minimal amount of extra tinkering. I'm hoping (perhaps naively) to get things right the first time. To that end, I've been doing a lot of reading over the past few days. I feel like I have a reasonable grasp of the overall picture, but t...