Advice on a new set up

[nakago]

All my systems are amd 3.2Ghz 6400 X2.

Unfortuanly I would be looking at a I7 920 / X58 MB system right now, AMD not having the horses to do the job now days.

Agreed, I moved to Intel based systems like 9 years ago, and never looked back. AMD seems to be always be playing catchup, and when they do seem to have something cool coming up, it's delayed and Intel comes in with it's own new stuff and eclipses AMD's offering.