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With current gen cpu's. This will be a router as you may have guessed.

I have a psu, hard drive.

I was thinking somthing along the lines of a celeron or a pentium D?
 
One place has them, but its more like $150 instead of $70 so thats not really an option.

Edit: it was kustompc's, and when somthing goes out of stock there its not coming back in for months.
 
Hmm, well then, I recommend this CPU then:
AMD Sempron LE-1100 45W CPU - £23

Pair with the cheapest AM2 mobo with onboard audio you can find and the most amount of RAM that you need and there's your new low power router.
 
Had my eye on that sempron, i might jump on that as i allready have a load of ddr2 come to think of it.

What chipset do you reckon?
 
After checking the CPU support list, I recommend this mobo:
Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 mATX Motherboard - £32.01 Inc VAT

It does support the CPU and IIRC does have decent support under Linux, if you're using a linux based router OS. However, dunno if this is a problem for you but the max LAN speed of that mobo is 10/100. That's probably the only caveat that I can think of. More info on the mobo here:
http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2470

EDIT: For a bit more money, you can get a mobo with 10/100/1000 speeds:
Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 AM2 AMD 690V mATX Motherboard - £36.41 Inc VAT

Info about the mobo here:
http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2437
 
Well i could use the 10/100 lan for connections to my modem and get 2 intel nics for dmz and green.

Will be using untangle and its a bit of a resource hog.

Thanks, will take a look on that gigabyte board.
 
onboard should do fine for the internet port shouldnt it? Im not thinking of bottlenecking the port i was just thinking about dropping packets etc.
 
It should do fine.

Sorry I was thinking of LAN transfer speeds, not internet speeds.
 
Danny Bui said:
It should do fine.

Sorry I was thinking of LAN transfer speeds, not internet speeds.
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I was thinking what to do on the nic side, could you reccomend me any? and do i really need intel nics?
 
I will take a look at some cheap nics, but keep in mind there will be heavy [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]transfers between the green nic and dmz, and i dont want these nics to crap out.
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Well my needs are modest so I can deal with a cheap NIC. Which is probably why I have yet to see a NIC, onboard or add-on, fail in any PC I've used or worked on.

Anyway, it's your money and your piece of mind. Choose whatever NIC you think will fit your needs.
 
ring.of.steel said:
I was thinking what to do on the nic side, could you reccomend me any? and do i really need intel nics?
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ring.of.steel said:
I will take a look at some cheap nics, but keep in mind there will be heavy transfers between the green nic and dmz, and i dont want these nics to crap out.
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Heh, well, if you get cheap, you'll get what you pay for. If you get Intel NICs, they're known to be very reliable... well, the higher end models are, at least, lol.
 
I might just pick up a couple at $60 each, its not that much of an investment.
 
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