core I3 with a suitably efficient board would be the best choice as far as low power and performance per watt's concerned Core i3 is a marketing designation. The budget CPUs are branded Pentium and Celeron and some of them would seem to be more appropriate for your builds which will not require muc...

thanks for the advice, it's definitely given me some food for thought. Such as moving to a sandy bridge platform for the server build, If this review's to be believed a core I3 with a suitably efficient board would be the best choice as far as low power and performance per watt's concerned, as it sp...

I'm currently trying to plan out two computer builds and would appreciate some advice on the builds. The first computer build is a more capable replacement for my current router and the other is a redundant replacement for my current server. Both builds are intended to keep power consumption under l...

Due to the fact that I was running out of space on my file server recently, I decided to do a storage upgrade with a second highpoint 2640 controller (solely for more SATA ports) and a few new 2TB hard drives. However I found out later that my current motherboard only supports a single raid controll...

Due to the fact that I'm running out of hard drive space on my server I've decided to prioritize getting a replacement low power server online ASAP. I've pretty much decided on getting a Supermicro X7SPA-HF Motherboard for my server as it seems to allow the best combination of power consumption and ...

My needs are still in flux at this moment so I posted what I'm sure of. From initial reports the Zbox HD-ND22 is essentially a souped up Atom computer, as it trades the Atom CPU for a CULV core 2 equivalent (the SU2300) but keeps the ION equivalent graphics card. Assuming I can get it stocked with e...

I'm currently trying to spec out parts for two computer builds and wanted to get some input on possible hardware choices. While the system requirements for each build is going to vary by a decent amount I'm hoping to keep power consumption down to a bare minimum. The first computer is intended to be...