I use a passively cooled VIA C7 1GHz, OS: ubuntu server edition. Works like a charm. Fast reliable. Noiseless. I don't have HD in there (I've got a seperate Synology NAS that I mount as a data partition, historical reasons, probably gonna change that some day) but use an IDE Flash (4GB) as a primary partition for the OS, so when I add an HD I can let that one spin down. The MB is a Jetway J7F21GE, not the least expensive one, but there's a daughter board available for gigabit ethernet which I found worthwile since I'm accessing the HD over the net so I got a bit more spare capacity for streaming in and out. It was the only passively cooled alternative I found. Can actually recommend the setup. Don't bother adding more GHz for processors, can't use'em anyway on a server, save power instead (my opinion).
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