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Why, you ask? Because.

Well as for the mobo, I can't find any reason not to get it. It's a good price (especially with the combo) and the alternative is a P35-based board which would be good but more expensive.

Thanks for all the advice.

I am mostly looking for unobtrusiveness. The machine is going to be running headless most of the time, on the side, but it has to sit in a fairly small area and stay cool. I'd like to spend under $150 on case/PSU, if that is possible.

Those look very promising. They both claim socket 940 compat, which I presume is the AM2 (I've seen it associated somewhere). The 7700 looks much wider, that has me concerned about whether it might push up against the memory banks or other components of a uATX board.

Looking at a few microATX cases, mini towers, MicroFly, even Shuttle. Been wondering just how much room do I have to fit CPU HSFs? Prospective CPU is an Athlon64 X2 (AM2). Some of these HSFs I look at are pretty large, especially the quiet ones. Any suggestions on models?