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Gordon Henderson wrote: > £65.00 http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12231 (mobo & CPU) <snip> Gordon, after reading your post last night it got me thinking a bit more about my home file/e-mail server which is currently running on a single core Athlon 1400. I was looking to upgrade it to a P4 3GHz but after getting a rather large electricity bill it made me stand up and think about the Atom. Do you have any running cost figures for the Atom? I'm not sure what my current server runs at but I'd assume it's a lot more than 8 Watts (it has 4 hard drives for starters). I'm thinking of maybe replacing the 4 hard drives (which give me about 600GB) with the 750GB drive out of my desktop (which will give me a good reason to clear out some of the junk I've horded). Since the dual core Atom has HT, I presume it'll be more than enough for my needs (my Athlon 1400 server currently runs Ubuntu Server for file sharing and SME Server on VMWare for my e-mail server). Hopefully if it's quiet enough (or could be made quiet enough with a couple of massive fans) it'll pass the wife test so I can move it downstairs to the lounge too. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html