I had two MBs SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F, both died after several months. Now I will buy asus P8B-M, same chipset, but it has x16 pcie.

PS: some ati 5450 http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-508.shtml are 1x pcie, so it fit into supermicro.

Silverstone hase FT03 http://goo.gl/9L813, but it is way too big and looks like cheap waste basket.

First of all, thank you very much for your ideas. Do you know, if anybody's doing this type mATX PC case?

E3 processor has only 20W TDP, so I was thinking, that processor can be passive cooled too.
Should I use something like this http://www.zalman.com/ENG/product/Produ ... sp?Idx=450
Thank you, in this problem I am really newbie.

Interesting idea and why in the middle? CPU will be cool enough with passive. Will I need really to use fan, or could it be fanless?

Hi, i am going to create my own case for home server/NAS. It is server motheboard, so no GPU (maximum Ati 5450), 5x 3.5" HDD, xeon E3 with 20W TDP will have a cheapest passive tower cooler. I hope, that case could be passive colled (stack effect), for sure I am thinking about 14cm extra low RPM fan....

one 2.5" 5400 for system and maximum four 3TB 3.5" green HDDs, like this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/3tb ... 82-11.html, disks will be 80% time in idle mode.

Hi,
I am going to build the same server as alewinsky only with E3 1220l, Is Pico PSU 120 with 80W power adapter really powerful enough?