Another small board by intel. The main difference between this one and her sister D945GCLF is the s-video output: you can connect this one to your TV. Not Full HD, but readable, and I can watch my movies in my 54-inch TV.

You'll need a case. I recommend building your own case, just because the small size of the boards can be useful to embed them in weird places. If you don't want to do a mess, get a small case like this one. You can fit two drives: one hard drive and one CD, DVD or Blu-ray reader or burner. It may be noisy due to the power supply fan, but your mileage may vary.

If you don't want to get a chassis because you want to build your own system, I'd recommend this power supply for your motherboard. It plugs right in the ATX power port, and you will need to connect it to a power brick, the same type you will use for a laptop (and you may use one from an old laptop or get a new one). It is powerful enough to connect the motherboard, an HDD and a DVD burner.

This is a fast, reliable and huge drive, holding one terabyte, that is 1000GB of pr0n, I mean, data. Imagine how many movies, music and pictures you can store on it: enough to download 0.00024% of all the data available on the Internet.

You may want to take a look to this drive too. It's a SATA Blu-ray burner that also happens to burn dvds and cds and read hd-dvds, and supports lightscribe. I don't like lightscribe at all, for me it is too slow, but, hey, it's your call. It's on the expensive side, too, but worth it.

You don't want to ruin your box with long cables sprouting from it. So let get wireless. This kit provides you a way to interact with your new computer: is that and old Betamax playing The Dark Knight in full HD? This wireless keyboard has a small joystick in its upper right end, that is a mouse in disguise. It's not a keyboard you want to use to write your new book, but you can answer your email.

You'll need conectivity. Let's start with a router. This one is not the fastest, the slimmest, nor the better-looking router, but its reliable and cheap. Couple it with one of the two wireless cards below and you're ready to go.

If you don't mind using an USB port, or don't like an antenna sprouting from your machine, then get this USB card. It's very reliable and fast, but perhaps a little big. You can use a small extension cord if you want, but I'd recommend you to plug it directly to the mainboard.

You may want to get this kit if you need to build something just a little bigger than a couple deck of cards. It has a Pico-ITX motherboard with a 1GHz processor, and the chassis just has enough space for a single EIDE laptop hdd. It doesn't even have enough room for the complete power supply, so you'll need to plug a power brick. But the complete system fits in 4x15x11 centimetres.

And this one is just a curiosity. It's too small to be useful for any task except watching a movie or TV while working. If you have a TV tuner you can connect this monitor to your machine (through the s-video port) and let something run in the background while you work in your main screen Or you could plug it to your dvd. Or you could not buy this and watch your movie in your living room.