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[Pancake]

Advice wanted please! Any part changes and why.

Location: USA

Budget: Not really got one, under $1500 excluding hard drives maybe

The Server - This shall be used for a PLEX Server, File Server (iSCSI), Music Server, VM's, Messing around.

Windows Server 2012

Lian Li PC-Q25 ITX Case - This looks like the best ITX case for lots of drives

Intel Core i5-3300 - I don't really need a Xeon

16GB Kingston DDR3 (2 x 8GB) - I might run a few VM's

5 x 3TB WD RED - MOAR STORAGE.

128GB Samsung 840GB SSD - For OS

1 x 1TB 3.5" HDD - For Images

Seasonic SSR-350GP - To power everything

Gigabyte GA-Z77N-WiFi - Dont care about anything apart from the Dual NIC's for LAN teaming

Silverstone NT07-1156 - Looks like a decent low profile cooler

IO Crest SATA-III 4 Port PCI-E Card - For more drives, I am NOT doing RAID as none of this data is important. So I will just span the drives.

[Guest]

Few things; I really wouldn't bother with the after market cooler - all Intel 1155 CPU's come with a stock heatsink that is designed to keep the CPU at safe levels at its stock clock and turbo boost clock. I also wouldn't bother about the 128GB SSD - for a boot disk, a 64GB unit is more than fine.

Other than that, not much I would change.

[Pancake]

Few things; I really wouldn't bother with the after market cooler - all Intel 1155 CPU's come with a stock heatsink that is designed to keep the CPU at safe levels at its stock clock and turbo boost clock. I also wouldn't bother about the 128GB SSD - for a boot disk' date=' a 64GB unit is more than fine. Other than that, not much I would change. [/quote']

I'll scrap the cooler, but the price difference between a 64 and a 128 is kinda crazy. So I think I'll stay with the 128 for now. Thanks!