A video archiving facility here in Las Vegas is where a producer/friend of mine has enjoyed using the Intel E6700 w/ an Asus P5W-DH for the last week. He uses a Luna w/ SFP, and Nuendo for all of his work. He was using the Opteron/Tyan combo until that time, and unfortunately must go back to that as I am building my DAW now and need my CPU. The Asus was able to OC the E6700 to 3.3GHz w/ passive cooling, and speed up his work beyond what Opteron could do. This is all I needed to hear, to know what I must do now. I will be posting on the Z of my progress with the Dual Core, and all IRQ settings and such, as I will be using EnergyXT as a VST host, and 3 x Scope Professionals. This is the list of parts I will be using.
Intel DP965LT w/ Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
Corair Twin2x2048-8500C5 2GB
eVGA NVidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB PCI-e
3 x Scope 15 DSP cards
OCZ ADJ-520 Powerstream P.S.U.
2 x WD360G HDD's for O.S. + apps.
2 x WD1500X HDD's for audio
Athena 4 in 3 SATA RAID cage
SKB 6U Shockmount ATA case
Servercase CK480 4U ATX
1U Keyboard/Trackball w/ 4 port KVM Swithcher
Creamware 1U A16 Ultra