What new PC to use?

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[vetch101]

Hi everyone,

I have been using EFW for a while on an extremely old and knackered pc...
We are going to be upping our bandwidth, and I am worried that it will become the bottleneck for our internet connectivity.

I am therefore going to  a new PC for EFW.
I have a quad gigabit PCI-E Ethernet card which works with a standard Red Hat 4.4 (and presumably 5.0) install using E1000 drivers.
I am looking at a Dell Optiplex 330, but I have had issues in the past when I tried to run this upgrade with Dell Dimension C521, Dimension E521 and a Vostro.

Can anyone give me any ideas as to what I should be looking at to run it on, because so far I haven't been able to find any listings of recommended hardware.

Any thoughts?

Jx

[sunblast]

I guess every newer hardware should be supported. Just recalling the hardware specs:

1,0GhZ Processor
512 MB RAM

I always thought of buying those small via embedded boards:

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=490

Seems just fitting 1,5Ghz and a maximal amount of 1G RAM.

Only drawback on those is they mostly contain only one Network interface. But I'm sure i found one with two allready attached. Else look for one with PCI slot and add a quad network if.