You did the footwork Tom, and knew exactly what you wanted and needed.
Good story, and a good read.
I can remember when there were no hard drives, ran programs directly from cassette or 8 1/4 inch floppy, and the were floppy too!
I don't need as serious a system, I don't rely on mine to make a living.
If I get the chance to build a 2 Gig System, with 1 Gb Ram ETC, it will be my last for quite a while. For the home user, as it stands right now, 2 Gig is more than enough. If I switch to LINUX, which is possible, it will be as fast as a 3Gig anyway.
BTW I will most likely use the Radeon Graphics card, Benches within 5% of the Nvidia, and costs about 30% less. I am not going to be playing any of the real graphic intensive games, and for Vid editing, any of the 16 Bit cards will do just fine.
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Whew!