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Ended up ordering parts today. My final component choices are: CPU: Intel i3-2100 Mobo: ASRock H67M-ITX LGA 1155 RAM: 16GB G.Skill Ares DDR3 1333 HDD: (x2) 2TB Samsung F4 HD204UI Case: APEX MI-008 PSU: picoPSU-120W + 102W Adapter Case Fan: Nexus 80mm and planning to installed...

Well I've done a lot more research and have decided a picoPSU is definitely worth it. Not only will it take less space than the stock PSU, allowing me to use a larger HSF, but will also help with airflow in such a tightly packed case. As for power efficiency I've seen insanely low consumption...

Are you familiar with/have any experience with PicoPSUs at all? I've heard great things about them and keep seeing a lot of mITX builds that use them, but I have a couple questions about them (primarily concerning power requirements). Can you please explain how the dual NICs would be...

Recently I've been looking to build my own small form factor PC that I plan to run FreeNAS on. My primary use for the NAS will media streaming (HD) as well as Usenet downloading (SABnzbd+ and Sickbeard). I'm also hoping to set up a VPN on this SFF. I've built many gaming PCs but am relatively...