Recommendendations for a small form factor system

[Weaned BSD]

Hi,

I'm looking to buy or build a small form factor system with a microATX
motherboard. I develop software for a living and mostly write LAMP or
perl code around mysql databases. I need something I can lug around 
that has good speed. I've many EIDE disk drives that have customer 
projects on so I need SATA and EIDE support. This box has to run FreeBSD, 
occasionally Red Hat and also windows. My budget is $500-$750. I'd 
like a gig of ram expandable to at least 2 gig, a separate graphics card 
(I'll rarely run X but occasionlly need to boot windows).  As much 
cpu as I can afford. I'd thought only AMD was in reach but see now 
that some of the Intel core 2 duos are under $200 (intels DG965OT mobo
with a  E6400 chip looks sweet). I need 100baseT NIC, onboard WiFi, 
a DVD drive and a couple of USB ports. Sound is not important. A PCI 
slot would be nice too.  If possible not anything that will overheat 
when I really crank through a large database. I write GIS code and 
often have databases with millions of points. I've looked at a lot 
of boards but thought the members of this list would be better and 
telling me what is fast and works out of the box with a current 
FreeBSD release.

Thanks for any advice.


 
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