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sailor · 01-11-2004, 03:47 PM

If it is an nForce board, I believe it has an onboard video card, so you shouldnt need one.

I also think you should plug a CD drive in temporarily to install. If you dont have a spare, just rip the one out of your other machine for a bit. A KVM is also a huge boon--you will want some way to get to that machine other than SSH. If something happens to the box and SSHD goes down or something, you have no way to get to it. Again, a KVM switch is a good thing. I got a 2 port one that came with cables and works pretty damn well off of Newegg for like $30.

Rethink the movie encoding too. That is the only thing on that box that needs any sort of CPU power. If you decide to forget about that, you could go grab an old Pentium I machine for like $50 and just spend the rest of the money on hard drives.

01-11-2004, 03:47 PM	#5 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	If it is an nForce board, I believe it has an onboard video card, so you shouldnt need one. I also think you should plug a CD drive in temporarily to install. If you dont have a spare, just rip the one out of your other machine for a bit. A KVM is also a huge boon--you will want some way to get to that machine other than SSH. If something happens to the box and SSHD goes down or something, you have no way to get to it. Again, a KVM switch is a good thing. I got a 2 port one that came with cables and works pretty damn well off of Newegg for like $30. Rethink the movie encoding too. That is the only thing on that box that needs any sort of CPU power. If you decide to forget about that, you could go grab an old Pentium I machine for like $50 and just spend the rest of the money on hard drives. __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato Last edited by sailor; 01-11-2004 at 03:49 PM..