Thanks for the accounting Swanster, but whoa you reformed my entire system! I am was convinved that that HDD array was ideal for video work.
system disk= 1x maxtor diamondmax10 250gb
media disk= 2x maxtor diamondmax10 250gb
scratcch disk= 1x WDraptor74gb
and signle CPU, you think so? the adobe suite loves dual, plus it'd give better perfomance than that prescott would it not? the 2gb of ram was so i could have 3 or 4 adobe applications open simultaneously and take advantage of the feature of being able to "jump" between the applications when working on a project.