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I want to build a low power home server. I have about £200 to spend on it without HDDs included in that budget.

My only requirement is that it must be small and very low powered as it will be on ALL the time.

Any suggestions for a motherboard, CPU and PSU?

I have been looking at intel atom cpus.

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What WHS software you looking to run on it? Something like unRaid or FreeNAS? Then ya, an Atom probably be your best bet. Going to run Windows Home Server? Don't think it will even install on a Atom. Also, have you look at AMD APU option? I am not sure how they comapre, but they are also supposed to have some low power options.

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It's a shame you can't really get the AMD E-350 anymore. Not a power hungry chip which puts out decent performance. I've seen quite a few of them in NAS setups and their owners are very happy.

I did see that Aria has a couple of bundles with an E350 and a Gigabyte mini-ITX board for about 60 quid that you may want to look into however you'd have to get a cheap little RAID card or something to go with it. That's probably going to be your biggest money draw too. A very basic low wattage PSU but not something too crappy should be about another 30ish and then there's just the case. Something like a Fractal Core 1000 or even one of those basic CiT cases with the 300w PSU might work too.

Just a starting point I guess..

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I guess I might just use my old x2 chip. I have an x6 I could put in there but that's just unnecessary and I would prefer to sell the x6.

PSU is the hardest to find. I need something at about 200W but there are no gold/plat rated PSUs in that power bracket.

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