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I'm planning a new system, and I'll be getting the parts over the next couple months. Here's the case I want.

* ASUS A7N8X-DX motherboard
* AMD Barton 2500+ CPU
* Video card - nothing special here, as I'm not much of a gamer. TI4600 probably.
* Drives - my existing Maxtor 120Gb as secondary, and a new 40gb for the primary.
* Keep my existing Verbatim 32x12x40 burner and Matsh|ta 8x DVD drive.
* Gig-O-RAM
* What am I forgetting?

Once that box is built, my servers will get some attention.

My current box will get a 1.2Ghz CPU (up from a Duron 700@840) and migrated to Red Hat 9, which will retire my current (get ready to laugh) Pentium Pro 180/64mb/80Gb RH7.1 server, currently used for file and web serving. This Duron 700 CPU will go into a second new box (using an all-in-one mobo I found today), to be used as a dedicated storage server. (The two servers I have now are both multi-purpose, and I want one dedicated just to storage.) Figure 2x120Gb drives in that puppy, headless (run via Remote Desktop), with a wireless NIC, living in my closet. It'll only get turned on once a week or so, so I can sync all my sh\t.

My Windows 2000 Advanced Server - It's a PII-350/384mb/40Gb box. I think I'll just clear off some files and leave it, as it serves as my DC hub. It works fine, I just won't be using it for storage anymore once I get my new storage server built, and W2kAS is overkill for the rest of what I use it for.

When it's all done, I'll have the following boxes in service:

Barton 2500+ (main)
Athlon 1.2Ghz (Red Hat 9 for file and web serving)
Duron 700 (dedicated storage server)
PII-350 (DC hub)

and I'll be retiring my PPro180 RH7.1 box. At some point I may get my P200/32mb Linux firewall/router (A new skill to add to my resume) (diskless, using a 4mb CF card as a boot device) back up and running too.

That's it I think. Questions? Suggestions?

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