Hello, This weekend I have consolidated my servers into a single host with multiple virtual machines, so I have the following former servers for sale. I built them to be virtually inaudible from 4-5 feet, using the fine Antec NSK-2480 (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article591-page1.html) case. Because of the large two 12cm fans near the CPU/memory area, I ran these servers without a fan mounted to the CPU heatsink, and the temperatures never went above 40'C. First up - barebones server $250: Case: Antec NSK-2480 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H (3 months old) CPU: AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 2.3GHz Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core Heatsink: Scythe SCMNJ-1000 "Ninja Mini" RAM: OCZ Platinum OCZ2P8002GK 4 sticks x 1GB CDROM: Nec? DVD-RW HDD: None This case holds two hard drives and two optical drives. I used a 3.5' to 5.25' adapter to place a hard drive on top of the CDROM, and I booted from a SATA to compact flash adapter, so I have my OS on solid state storage, and the three hard drives were in a RAID5. The SATA to compact flash adapter (and the two Transcend 4GB industrial are available for $50). The motherboard is only three months old, because the old one died during transport and I sent it in to Biostar for RMA and I needed something during the month they poked at it. In the end Biostar send me a new motherboard back. You just need to add hard drives to this and turn it on. It is also excellent as a media center PC. Second up - low-fat bones server $100: Case: Antec NSK-2480 Motherboard: BIOSTAR TA790GX XE AM2+/AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI Micro ATX (the new motherboard I received from Biostar) You'll need CPU, Heatsink, RAM and hard drives. This will work great as a media center PC. Third - router / wireless access point $250 Case: Antec NSK-2480 Motherboard: VIA PC-1500 (the CPU is soldered on the motherboard) RAM: 2 GB Ethernet: 1x Gigabit ethernet on the motherboard 4x Fast Ethernet (on a SUN qfe PCI card) Wireless: Airlink AWLH5075 Wireless N (atheros based, drivers available for Linux, OpenBSD) Optical: Samsung? Dual-layer DVD-RW Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101011/c2dc5e07/attachment.pgp