Back to earth, I have a 2.4Ghz quad core (ASUS P5KC M/B & budget Asus/ATI chipset Vidcard) with 8gb of Ram running Vistal Ultimate 64 bit, 2x 500Gb Sata hdd, DVD burner & internal card reader. Built it about 10 months ago. It will do everything I need to do, very quickly, cost was under $1K box only no OS.