Thanks again everyone for the input. I ended up going with the following build: * AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz * GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 * SeaSonic ECO 300 300W SFX12V * 4GB CORSAIR (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 * 2TB (2x1TB) Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EACS 1TB SATA It's running Ubuntu 8.04LTS server, and is...

One more question. Do I need to worry much about power consumption on different memory brands, or are they all more or less the same?

The lowest power consumption we have ever achieved using a mATX board was with a X2 4850e + Gigabyte 740G board. The entire X2 line for AM2 supports AMD's virtualization technology. Great, glad I posted here, I found the review here and it looks like a much better match for me. Thanks for the info.

Thanks. The software development doesn't really need a lot of horsepower, per se. But having the VT support is an absolute must for what I'm doing, and that really only seems to be supported on pretty beefy processors -- both for AMD and Intel processors. I only chose the E8200 because it was the ch...

I run a linux server in my garage as a web/file/printer server and for software development. It's a beast, at about 200 watts, and a recent hard drive failure inspired me to replace it. My requirements are: * The processor must have virtualization (VT) and 64-bit support. * I want to keep watts to a...

I want to build a system with a MicroATX motherboard, using a FlexATX power supply. The power supply I'm looking at was also reviewed here on silentpcreview, and I read some other favorable reviews on it -- the Sparkle Power SPI220LE. I'm trying to find a case which will support both this power supp...