My Power system is exactly what John said ... I would throw in Raid Striping on two raptors for good effect too hehe :) Right now im close but not close enough The Rig todayPentium 4 3.0C1 Gigabyte of ram in Dual channel mode 2X512 Corsair Value selectTimings 2.5-3-3-6 (Havent played with em yet.. got em today)Asus P4P800 Deluxe (Turbo mode & Pat modes Enabled) Couldnt get those modes to run stable on my previous cheap ram(3-3-3-8)... Selling that memory on Ebay right now "as we speak" hehe.ATI Radeon 9800 proSound Blaster Audigy Mp3WD 120 meg HD with 8 meg cacheFujitsu 40 meg HD with 2 meg cacheWell i run low on cash so this was my bang for the buck system for nowI am going to get the upgrades below eventually though.Planned UpgradesLast of the line Northwood 478 core hmm Maybe 3.4 or 3.6 (did they release a northwood 3.6?)Geforce 6800GT (They have redeemed themselves finally after the FX fiasco)The ram mentioned above by john looks good (Looks BH5 ish on the timings and Every tech head knows that those BH5 chips were damn legendary!!)and of course the WD Raptors in sata raid config.And the Lian Li V-1000 case .. currently 185 dollars on newegg .. ugh :( If Intel continues on its present course My next rig next year is looking very much AMD ish.EditManny here are links to my system suggestionsCPUhttp://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-116-168&depa=1Mainboardhttp://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-131-492&depa=0BTW that mainboard is Feature overkill.. If you can get one without the "E" at the end you will still have a top notch board with all the features you "WILL USE"Memoryhttp://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-145-523&depa=1Hard DriveOption 12 of this http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-144-200&depa=1+ Another large drive for the junky stuff (music,vids.mp3's)or Hard DriveOption 22 of thishttp://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-144-160&depa=1and put everything on itCasehttp://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-112-051&depa=1******* the price went up !! :-8 I know this case may not be everyones cup o tea but it sure is right up my alley and it cools better too.. (Tested on Anandtech and other review sites)PowerThe 550 one is overkill now but may not be in the future.. i would keep the one you showed me (especially with the way Graphics cards are hogging for more power nowadays)

:-hah yes, some Raptors would be nice! I just ordered a gig of the 3200XL, can't wait to chuck 'em in. I'm almost set on my upgrade.Next up is a nice new case! Going to get myself the Coolermaster Wave Master or the new Thermaltake Wave one..Thank god I am working again :-lol