there's space in Node0 for a tower, so not so worried about small form factor ... do applications have to be written to take best advantage of things like multi-threading & RAM, or does the OS take care of that ? How far up the i3 i5 i7 ladder is it worth going ? At the moment, IIRC, our miniITX has 1GB of RAM - more modern PCs often have 4GB, sometimes 8GB, even 16GB, some can go to 32GB ... SSD still a bit expensive, 'though for a 24/7 PC could make a lot of sense, 'though they do need cooling, which might imply potential reliability issues (?)
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