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Old 21st November 2008
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In perusing the OP's OP (hehe), the one thing that comes to mind is heat- you want multiple drives, multi-core processing, high-end graphics and possibly physically separate sound and network cards. And to power all of that wonderfullness you'll want to have a beefy power supply that will also need to be crammed in there. The problem becomes powering all of that and considering the heat dissipation and air circulation in an MATX case.

Be considerate of your choice for the case itself, and what kind of fans it has (or that you might add to it.) I say this because working for a webhosting company that has hundreds of dedicated servers to look after, we learned that lesson the hard way. Specifically, for a 'generation' of servers we built, we bought the cheapest possible cases that we could, and found hard-drives failing on a regular basis because there were too many high-heat generating components in a small area with piss-poor heat dissipation and air circulation. Nobody likes noisy fans in their home pc, of course, but even more plainly understandable is that no one likes a fried hard-drive even more than noise.

That being said, if you can find a way to sneak in quiet 120mm fans and not compromise the airflow design of the case in the meantime (I can't tell you enough how stupid it can be to leave your case cover off or randomly drill holes), you can get around this possible problem.
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