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Well if you want cheep, go with a Celeron. Pentium D is a dual core Pentium 4. The latest socket for Pentiums is the LGA775; it’s just the new 478. If you’re looking for a test box for server 2k3 with exchange, you don’t need much horse power; you don’t need a spiffy mother board, or gigs of ram.
Celeron 2.53, generic motherboard that’s not junk, single SATA hard drive (what ever is not too huge and not to expensive) 1 gig of ram. See if you can get a board with onboard video, save you a bit of money on a video card.
Before you buy make sure there are drivers for your onboard NIC for win2k3, if there are not, buy a supported NIC and use it instead.
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