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I have another question if you could help.

Would there be a problem with using a laptop Hard Drive (Toshiba 60GB SuperSlim MK6026GAX Hard Drive) inside of a desktop computer? And if I do use this HD is there any special powersupply/proccesser/ect I would need

Thanks in advance. If your wondering I am trying to fit it inside of a VCR case, which is quite abit smaller than the tower my feet are resting on, so need to stay small (Mini ITX).

You may need an adapter for the IDE cable, and power, but you can make it work.

You generally can use notebook components in a desktop system.

e.g. Using a intel centrino cpu is on the one hand quite expensive but on the other hand it does not produce so much heat as a pentium IV (more quiet), does have a similar performance, does not need a big power supply (120 watt for a system are enough, compared to more than 300 of a P4)....it's the same with the hard drives: smaller, quieter, need less power.

@Jared: that is quite important for your small machine: you do not have enough space for a proper cooling system. so spend a lot money for heatpipes, fans...etc or stay small with the cpu frequencies (much more smaller than 3 GHz).

If you want to have a cheap system:
- AMD Duron 1800 Mhz (or AMD 2800pro System as it may be called) in a bundle with a mainboard (also itx) for $50 (ATX) $90 (ITX) on e-Bay.
- 256 MB DDR266 RAM (If you use some kind of Windows as well: min. 512 MB, if possible: 2x256 MB). they cost app. $100 for 512 MB
- Case with power supply

- optional : cd /dvd -drive, floppy, hard-disk....

I installed such a system half a year ago it cost about $300 with a 250GB hard-disk (normal desktop hdd) and a nVidia FX5600 graphics adapter and a multi-format dvd-drive.

Breadman.

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