Hi. > I have been thinking of building a low-power Debian AMD64 desktop with a > Core 2 Quad CPU (probably the Q6600). The purpose of this machine is > nothing special, just the basic computing type thing (office suite, > email, web surfing) without the power-hungry hardware. If low power is important then you should consider the Q8200 CPU; from what I've read, it's less power hungry than the Q6600. Best, Gilles