So I am excited to have finally ordered some home hardware from my friends at Redpixie! What I have gone for is:

• Silverstone SG01F mATX Cube Case
• Intel® Core” i5 Processor i5-670 3.46GHz (with VGA)
• 8gb RAM Memory DDR3 1333MHz
• 3.5″ HD SATA2 1TB 7200RPM 32MB Cache
• Intel E1G42ET Gigabit Ethernet Card – PCI Express 2 Port – 10/100/1000Base-T

This does very well for them as a lab system and expect it to be good for me too.