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Low power quick boot PC

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TXHokie

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I'd like to build a simple PC that need just the ability to play DVD and browse the web for my kid. I have a MB that has built in video/sound and just want to hook up a wireless network card and have it boot Windows XP off USB thumbdrive (1-2Gb?) for simplicity. Is this doable? Anyone have any suggestion on a cheap case/low power PSU for this?
 
The low power PSU and low cheap case is doable but I doubt the USB Thumbdrive quick booting of XP is doable. For quick booting you can always use the standby or hibernation mode. If you are willing to use I-Ram (4-GB) as your OS drive it will give you the fastest XP boot expecially from standby or hibernation.
 
A USB flash drive is going to be much, much slower then any almost any hard drive.

InWin makes very good yet inexpensive cases with decent PSUs. Still I would probably swap out any bundled PSU for a Forton-Source, 250-300 watts should be fine.
 
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