i'm putting blue industrial on the side for now as i dont really have a budget for a new system and the VIA c3 i found would look funny inside the big frame...
if you're a follower of my dumb useless and boring threads, you will know that i came across a VIA c3 system.
well i have been taking my laptop to work for a while now and i dont really like moving it around from home to work and vise versa. not that i'm lazy it's just that i feel like i'm going to drop it or something bad is going to happen to it. so i want to make a pc for my office. being broke and looking to purchase a condo dont really help out much as to saving for a brand new spanking system. so, i told my wife to look around to see what i was usually doing at the office on the laptop. and i guess all i do is use MS Office(word and excel), Firefox, winamp and a little of Photoshop and illustrator. so i realized the little VIA c3 1ghz, 256mb ram, 60gig hd, and ethernet connect would serve me right. so......
first of all "vista" is the name of the company i work for and SFF, well i'm sure you know it stands for small form factor. with that said here are my plans
OS
XUbuntu or Ubuntu 7 or Ubuntu Ultimate 1.2
Hardware
ECS mobo
VIA C3 1ghz processor
256mb of ram(can take up to 1gig)
4 external 1 internal USB 2.0 PCI card
160w PSU
60 gig 72,000rpm HDD
Slim cdrw/dvd combo drive(might or might not go in)
Case
plexi case, pieced together by me as in not an already made kit. clear plexi glass.
mobo is a little taller than 9 1/2 inches and a little smaller than 7 1/2 inches. just by that alone you can see its going to be a small case. and it's got to be wide enough for the pci cards. i already got one for the USB 2.0 as it only had USB 1.0. the other two things that will go inside the case are 60gig HDD and PSU. i got a slim drive cd rw and dvd combo that i dunno if i can fit into the case, physically i can but looks wise i dunno.