Folding Rig spec - what do you think? :)

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Right, after thinking long and hard about this I've decided to take the plunge and upgrade my computer situation. I was going to wait for the Q9450 but for £60 more and a couple of months waiting doesn't seem worth it.

So, I'd like your advice on the spec I've got below. The only part I currently have is the same 250Gb platter hard drive that I'm getting below, I plan on doing RAID 0 with them.

My budget is £800 :)

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EDIT: Forgot to mention I only have an 17 inch monitor at the moment, max of 1280 * 1024. My intention is in the future to upgrade monitor + gfx card, then cpu once the price comes down to a reasonable amount/ the extra instruction set get used for folding :)
 
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Ok, thanks for the advice. I was just looking at the "this week only" offers, and saw the corair 4Gb http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-136-CS.

Would it be worth getting this instead of the ballistix, considering I am wanting to overclock as much as possible and will be using 32bit XP? I know that it will put more pressure on the northbridge, and that I don't plan on upgrading to Vista for a long time, if ever :)

Oh, and I will be using 4 Linux SMP clients on 2 VMWare images :)
 
Ok, thanks Cob :) I now have the following spec, just need to convince my other half that we really need a new shiny computer :) When is spore coming again? :P

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I've already got x86 XP yes, however its a legitimate corporate edition (I was working from home for a lot of my previous job). I'm not sure it will be upgradable :/
 
hmmm......... in that case I'll stay with XP for now :) I'll still get 3.25Gb which is 1.75Gb more than I have at the moment :)
 
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