hrm... good suggestions. i've heard the intel chip is a little better at video editing. and besides, last i checked the barton 3000 and the pentium 3.06 are pretty similar in price range.
i don't need raid onboard... what i'm going to end up doing is getting the promise sx4000 controller (you know, the one you can throw 256mb of ram on), and running a 3x100gb hdd stripping array for video editing (probably just set it up for raid 5 with redundancy). i like that card, and performance seems to be really top-notch, which is more what i'm looking for.
my data is all going to be on a server, which i'm also going to be building soon. basically just a win server, probably a fairly cheap amd setup with raid. not really looking to store data on this machine a whole lot, and this way i can get to stuff from my other desktop, and the future laptop.
i would still consider an amd setup... if you can recommend a duallie board for amd. i'd *really* prefer a dual processor setup for this machine. i've been abusing my machine pretty hard lately.
i've also been considering a dual opteron setup, but i think that's a little too costly. a tyan board for it runs about $450, plus the 1.4 barton starts at like $175 or something.. so i doubt i'll do that.
not going to run sata for now, going to swap over my 80gb wd 8mb 7200 for now. i'm going to drop the wd 36gb sata 10k rpm 8mb cache drive into my current machine. this machine i;m on right now will be my fast & dirty gaming machine, with the sata, corsair xms, ati 9800 256mb and stuff. might even upgrade to a nice barton in the process, on a 2400+ now.
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