Why throw money at a P4 system?. They are'nt that much better for editing are they?. To the tune of a few hundred dollars worth?...
An NF7 (S if you want SATA, LAN, Firewire, Onboardsound and USB2. It's worth the money even if you don't use it yet). 2500+ Barton for the extra L2 cache. Any old 3200Cas2 RAM. Antec truepower PSU cause they have an independant 12v rail that has voltage sensing & correction (CPU runs off 12v rail, not the 'traditional' 5v). VOILA!, you have a top knotch kick~ass rig. And I'd say running a RAID mirror is quite a big deal if it's a work box. How can having your work backed up automaticaly NOT BE?...
PS, you can run normal parallel ATA100/133 harddrives in RAID if you use two 'Serillel' adaptors to convert them to SATA ports. One comes with the mobo...
PPS, the SATA corruption issues have been fixed...
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