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    First Build -- could really use 2nd opinion

    Ah yes, the good old days: In 1992 my wife and I spent well over $2000 on a 486, 33Mhz machine with a 145 MB hard drive. It booted to DOS by default, and we only loaded Windows (3.1 was it?) if we wanted to do something fancy, like use a spreadsheet. The original Duke Nukem and Commander Keen...
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    First Build -- could really use 2nd opinion

    Well, you're sounding like the voice of reason here, cubby1223. Following the advice of some hardware guides I've read through, I had been focusing on the ratio performance/price as the practicality sweet spot (and so concluded, for example, that the $150-200 processors were best mainstream...
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    First Build -- could really use 2nd opinion

    Ok, now cubby1223 has me thinking I overshot the processor to begin with. Maybe I should just average the two suggestions and stay where I started? :-) Anyway, the debate is good for me to hear. Yeah, I'm kinda leaning towards not implementing RAID at all. I'm certainly not going to be...
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    First Build -- could really use 2nd opinion

    Thanks for the suggestion RadiclDreamer. Hmm, perhaps you're right. It looks like this would require just another $50. On the other hand, to me that seems to push the processor into the "midrange" category, and I was thinking a simple home server like this wouldn't need more than a "just...
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    First Build -- could really use 2nd opinion

    I've been having trouble getting much/any feedback on other forums. (I realize it's not an exciting cutting edge gaming build.) But, I'm hoping someone here can give things a quick look-through for me. I'm planning to build a simple home server, running Ubuntu linux, which will be used for...