Yeah, I have modified it a little after I found a LiteOn blu-ray burner for around $380Aus....will drop one of the hard drives and put it in in place. I currently have 2 hd-dvd drives from MS, one is on the 360 and the other is a spare in case the first one dies, will then rip all my hd's to the pc and reburn them as blu-ray so the LiteOn being about $600 less than I expected can fit in nicely.

Haven't looked at a dual-quad, could have it's place but think I should be ok...I might actually use my current multibox machine for the DAW, neither Line6 or Digitech have 64-bit drivers yet for the guitar and keyboard workstations I use so there is no point to using them on the new machine...think I'll stick with the single quad at this stage. I'm also going to stick with DDR2 for the moment given how cheap it is, and the next cpu cycle from Intel is going to be a new pin layout so that means a new mb anyway and will get DDR3 then once it's down in price....don't mind paying for things, but like to get value still