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board2death986

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building a file server, size is not an issue, but build quality and cooling are a must;

my case choices are between the CM stacker and Tt Armor.

i need help finding a simple mobo with a few PCI slots, integrated video/audio/gigabyte LAN
either amd or intel, amd's run cooler though so thats preferred

also need IDE host controllers for at most 10 HDD's total including 2 optical drives (total including onboard mobo IDE's)

about a gig of memory , a PSU to handle all the hardware and that should be all right?

*input and output devices will be shared with a KVM switcher*

3rd time posting this. .hopefully someone at least says something
 
LOL

save your money on the processor and invest in Gigabit
for brownie points consider a parity RAID array (with a card having a decenct sized cache 256MB>512MB)

you dont need great processing power a decent amount of RAM is a good idea however
 
You likely be fine with 1GB
but then you havent said what your environment is
used to be people would talk about file server and immediately the assumption was enterprise\small office

these days the assumption is distributed home theater :p

in a true heavily accessed multiuser environment that calls for Opterons, 2GB or more of RAM, dual gigabit, 64bit PCI ect

for a personal file server, even a Duron or Celeron would do (might want a medium amount of horsepower under the hood if its supposed to do parity calculation for software RAID) a sole GB and gigabit (its affordable and oh so much better than 10\100)
 
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