It is all set up and working. It all worked fine the first time (excpet for the floppy drive which I plugged in the wrong way round).

The fans are a bit noisy, but they are only small ones. I might try and slow them down a bit after I have tested to make sure it won't have any bad effect.

The Intel E6300 seems to run around 32C with the stock cooler (whilst not doing much). Right next to the Intel cooler is a case fan (80mm) and also nearby is the massive fan in the OCZ power supply.

I installed Debian but am considering running Mandrake. I am posting this from Firefox running on the Mandrake Live CD. I see that the forum still has the Amiga style pointer . That is something which doesn't work in Opera.

I'm still considering if/how to install Windows.

*wonders what to do with 2GB of memory*