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How about going silent?
Yes, it's money you don't need to spend, but at work recently I've been playing with the Via Eden based boards booting off of Compact Flash. The motherboards are 7" by 7" with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports, 100baseT, 2 USB ports, serial, parallel, sound card, and VGA, NTSC and S-Video out, and don't need a fan, and although I'm using them for embedded work seem like they're fast enough to be a display machine while you put the noisy server with all the disk and such in another room. I'm working with the iDOT iBox slim PC that takes 12v (and comes with a power supply on a cord to give you that if you're not planning on running off of car batteries or similar) for under $200, add a $15 or $20 CompactFlash to IDE adapter and an old small CF card just large enough to fit a kernel and mount your system via NFS and you've got a power-sipping silent desktop machine. Seriously the best case of TechnoLust and "wow" factor I've had in a while.
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