Most of your other questions have been answered,
although I should point out that I'm running
SlimServer 6.2.2 on Windows XP Home quite
successfully.
There are a few very cheap "CPU on a board"
motherboards out there. ECS has one, the 760GX-M.
This has an AMD Socket 754 Athlon Mobile 2800+
but not soldered-in as on their earlier boards.
Heatsink and fan are installed as well. It's
amazingly cheap, on sale right now for $119.99
CDN. I hear PCChips <gasp!> makes others. Yes,
PCChips is the bottom of the barrel in terms of
quality though.
I have a much earlier ECS "CPU on a board" combo,
which has a 1.2 GHz Duron CPU soldered-in. It has
worked fine for me as a secondary computer and
would have no problem at all with SlimServer and
256 MB of RAM.
These boards have onboard video (nothing fancy)
and an onboard LAN port as well.
Use one of these boards with a basic case that has
a quality power supply, like the Antec Solution
series. Add a 250 - 300 GB IDE hard drive and a
cheap CD-ROM and you'd be all set.
pankaj wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm considering getting my local computer hardware
supplier to put
> together a standalone, low-cost, 24x7 computer to
serve as my music
> server, and I was looking for some advice on what is
the minimum I
> should purchase, a Bill-Of-Materials (BOM) so to
speak.
>
> For example, I could configure:
> 1) The cheapest Celeron mother board available (Is
Celeron Ok?). Which
> one?
> 2) The minimum amount of RAM required to run the OS
and SlimServer (how
> much is adequate?)
> 3) Would Win XP Home be adequate, or must I use Win
XP Pro?
> 4) A Linksys/Netgear (?) Wireless card
> 5) A 200GB HDD (?)
> 6) A CD-ROM Drive
> 7) A USB port so's I can sync my iPod to the iTunes
library
> 8) The smallest profile cabinet I can get
>
> Etc.
>
> Any contribution to this idea, or a link to a site
that has suggestions
> on how to go about it would be most welcome.
>
> I'm not familiar with Linux, or I'd imagine that
would be the way to
> go? Any Linux 101 sites I could look at?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pankaj
>
>
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