The mini-box is pretty decent - I have the fanless 533 MHz motherboard (not the nifty box, just the MB) and have successfully run a 3-disk RAID serving up MP3's and general mass storage to the house, for which it was plenty beefy. Now, if I wanted beef in mini-ITX... http://www.mini-itx.com/2006/03/10/aopens-i945gtt-vfa-intel-viiv-mini-itx-board --DTVZ