[Tweekster]

Thought I would chime in.......a day late and a dollar short

If you want a budget dualie, go AMD with a MSI board and a couple of modded 2500 Bartons....get ECC RAM and a 550W PS.

If you want rock solid stability, go dual Xeon with an E7505 chipset......2.4/533 procs are about $240 each, which is reasonable, the motherboard is the killer, $400+......also the 24 pin EPS power supply is a little high.

When your doing video compressions with a multi-threaded app like TMPGenc, the dual Xeons with HT just scream. A full 2 pass DVD quality compression on a full DVD worth of video takes me about 2 hours.

Reconsider the SX4000......I've used this card on 2 machines with bad results, corrupted arrays, funny quirks, bad initial bios.......look at the latest descriptions on the bios updates on the Promise site, scary stuff.........finally returned them both and switched to 3Ware Escalades........problem free

Raid 5 has terrible write speeds, not too good for video capture, stick with Raid 0 or Raid 10........or a single 15K SCSI