low power build?

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I'm looking for recommendations for a low power (as in watts) build. Keeping my Quadcore/8800GT up 24/7 costs too much money :)

any reccomendation. It's going to be used for a NAS box that I can leave up 24/7, so would be nice to keep it as low watts as possible.

Basically, I probably want a motherboard with a PCI-E slot (for a Perc5 card) and onboard video (no need for anything fancy) and a low powered cpu.

If anyone has any good reccomendations on a small case that has 3 5.25 externals (for a 3 to 5 backplane) that be nice too.

thanks.
 
Please answer these questions:
1) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
2) Where do you live?
3) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
4) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
5) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?

EDIT: Addendum:
6) You want to be able to fit in 9 drives (1 OS drive and 8 x RAID drives) inside the case right?
7) What OS will you be using?
 
1) I haven't thought of the budget, its a budget system so cheaper is better. This isn't going to be a box that's used besides as a NAS type device.

1a) Generally buy parts where tax isn't an issue.

2) live in NY

3) the main Q was in regards to motherboard/cpu what do people reccomend for low power.

4) I have a few power supplies, they might not be the most efficient things in the world, but are sufficient to power the HDs. The main components I'm going to be reusing are the 3to5 backplane and the perc5 adapter. (currently used in a 5x400 Raid5, upgrading to 5x1TB and figure should redo it totally when upgrading)

5) I'd like to build it in the near future.
 
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