I recently built wy wife a machine with a bargain MB, Celeron 1.8, 512-B,WD SE 80-GB drive, and a lower end NVIDIA based video card. I used a basic alum case and the MB had the LAN and sound integrated.
It worked out quite well. You can save $$ if you carry over the optical drives, floppy (if you even still use one), and whatever you used for KVM.
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