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Pathos:
just make sure you buy the right one and not a handicapped one.

Refalm:
I have experience with building routers out of computers.
Many people do it, especially at all the schools I was working or interning for.

It's great for web content filtering and blocking out spyware, trojans for the entire network using the hosts file list, and mare more usages.

It's mostly ClarkConnect or IPCop, but if you'd want to also use the web or possibly play some games on your NAT box, I'd recommend trying Debian with Shorewall. It's pretty easy to set up.

Master of Reality:
I had a box with a 266MHz cpu running slackware, with two ethernet cards. One card was hooked up a cable modem, and the other was connected to a good ol' hub.

I made a custom firewall with IP Tables and ran a webserver on it. There wasnt any fancy software on it, I set up the routes and IP Tables rules to make it route the traffic for me. I can't recall exactly what I had to do to set it up (did it a few years ago and never touched it again except updates)

Using Squid as a proxy with adzap was a nice addition to remove ads from websites for me.

I'm not sure why you want a video card in it and such... and why it needs to be so powerful unless your doing some crazy amount of traffic through it.

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