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RavenD

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This PC's primary function is going to be running virus scans on system drives from other PC's. IDE drives will go in firewire enclosures to provide hotplugability. For SATA drives, we're gonna make a small rack padded with foam that will sit outside the case, and route the wires for them through a hole we'll cut in the case. Going dual-core for now, will upgrade to quad when it has enough work that two cores are overloaded. I'm hoping to run linux on the system, and then run XP in a VM to do scans from, to avoid having to reinstall the host OS when if/when it gets infected from the drive its scanning, although I'm not yet sure how (un)mounting drives as they get plugged in and out will work in the VM.
Enermax Pheonix Case - 84 shipped AR
SeaSonic S12 II SS-500GB ATX12V - 100 bucks shipped
GeForce 7200GS 128MB DDR2
Thermaltake CL-P0114 120mm heatsink - 45 shipped
E6300 - 174 shipped - hoping to OC to 2.5-2.6
ASUS P5B Deluxe - 142 shipped
160GB SATA2 HDD
2x1GB 800Mhz DDR2 OCZ
Startech Firewire card - 50
Total on the parts i didnt link is 167.
Overall total is 766.72
Budget is 800

I'm looking to be able to be able to scan at least four drives at once.
 
Looks fine, but your parts are a bit outdated.

The E6300 has been replaced by the E6320, which in turn has been replaced by the E6550. So, go for that instead. But, for virus scanning, all you should need is the E4400.

The P965 Express has been replaced by the P35 Express... so...

The P5B Deluxe has been replaced by the P5K Deluxe, though if you really want all that stuff, just get the P5K-E instead. If you don't really need all the stuff it comes with, just drop down to the Asus P5K vanilla instead, which has onboard firewire. If you need more SATA ports, look at the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 instead.

Go with one of these coolers instead:
$35 - Scythe SCNJ-1100P Ninja Plus Rev.B CPU HSF
$45 - Tuniq Tower 120 CPU HSF
$46 - Thermalright Ultima 90 CPU HS + FBA09A12M - Z ($3)
 
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