Looking for hardware recommendations...

It is time to replace my home server. I currently have a P3 800 Mhz system
with 512MB RAM and a 120 GB HDD running RH 7.2. It has served me well but
is getting pretty old and I need more storage space.

The system is the PDC of my home LAN and servers 5 PCs. (mine, wife, kids,
media center, laptop) I am a software/web developer and besides serving
files, it also runs a web server and SQL server. These are not public, I
just use them for development and learning purposes.

The media center is my newest addition and it is rapidly sucking up
storage. (I Love My DVR) I want to upgrade to Gigabit Ethernet and
probably a RAID subsystem. I was thinking software RAID is fine, and
considering 4 x 250 GB SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration to yield about
750 GB.

For the motherboard I would like to jump up to 2+ GHz. I have seen a
couple of Celeron 2.4 GHz bundles that looked interesting. Of course the
64 Bit dual core systems look interesting too, but I would like to keep the
price down and it only has to server my little home LAN. I am thinking I
can get away with about 1 GB RAM.

I figure the drives are pretty universal, but usually the CPU, MB and RAM
need to be matched, and usually represent more than 50% of the price.

I am hoping someone can comment on my proposed setup and recommend an MB
that works well with Fedora Core 5.
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