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Antec NSK3300 MicroATX tower [~$100 w/shipping]
Gigabyte GA-8I945GMMFY-RH (Mobile on Desktop motherboard) [~$165]
Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83Ghz CPU [$250]
1 GB super-fast RAM [$170]
2 new 200GB SATA drives [2x$70 = $140]
Reuse my current DVD writer

Total moneys: $825
This is a real computer. Unlike the VIA stuff, it can actually compute. Plus, if I wanted, I [...]

Mainboard: VIA EPIA CN13000 or CN10000 [$185]
Ram: 1GB DDR2 533 [$122]
Case: Casetronic C137 [$156]
Ethernet/audio/video onboard
Hard drives: 1 40G and 1 80G laptop hard drive, stuffed into a 3.5″ bay.  [~$190]
DVD burner: Slimline slot-loading dvd writer (yum). [$97]

Total cost: $750
And there we have a smaller, quieter, sexier solution.  The only fans are the 60mm case fan [...]

I could just get a mac mini. I don’t have to put it together then. Plus I get a speedy core duo. The major drawbacks are:

cost: at least $874 the way I would want it configured.
only one hard drive. that leaves me buying an external drive and powering it, which is [...]

The cheapest way to go, of course, is to buy as little as possible. The Venus case makes this possible:

Mainboard/Processor: VIA EPIA M10000 [$157]

Ram: 1GB DDR266 [$0 -- I already have one]

Ethernet: onboard 10/100 [$0]

Audio: onboard 6-channel [$0]

Video: onboard (has hardware MPEG-2 accelerator) [$0]

Case: Morex Venus 668 [$95]

Hard drives: Already own 2x suitable drives [...]

Needs:

at least 100 mbit ethernet
decent 2 channel audio (or better), or room for my pci sound card
cpu that’s not much slower than what I’ve got (athlon XP 1800+ (1100Mhz))
at least 1 gig ram.
reliability. I don’t want to go through this process again for at least another 4 years.
2 hard drives. I’ve questioned a [...]

I thought warchicken was in a stable state, but it’s really not. This evening I tried to build some packages and it threw everything into a nasty state. I got a bunch more of those glibc errors, and the root filesystem got mildly corrupted.
After some 30 minutes of fixing, the system is [...]

Recently warchicken has been behaving badly. Programs have been crashing randomly, and I’ve been getting errors such as: “gcc: your hardware sucks” and “glibc: this is probably a hardware error.”
I haven’t yet figured out exactly what the problem is, but I suspect something fairly brainy is involved, such as the cpu, motherboard, or ram.
I’ve [...]

Owen is hungry. He is getting food. No, wait, he’s getting some water first. Ok, that’s better. I’m writing his blog post for him. Isn’t it awesome?