lol you sound like me when i got the money to multi box. I spent a total of a little less then 2k on everything (including monitor). I would say go with the 10000 rpm western hard drives (get 2 of them and strip/raid them). There is a wiki out there on how to make wow work on 1 hd (even though there are 2 hd there strip/raid them make it thinks there is 1 there) by using junction (xp) or system link (vista)... i will post wiki later. For the memory windows 32 bit does even see the full 4g of memory (think it is like 3 or 3.5g it sees). Only windows 64 will see the full 4 or 8g of memory. I talk to a big techie at work and he told me that 4 x 1g of good memory is better then 2 x 2g of good memory. I do not think that wow works on windows 64 (it works but i think you have to do something to make it use 32 bit to run wow... could someone clear this). I wouldn't get the 3 video cards and use sli. Right now wow does not support sli so using sli, i heard, actually slows down the video cards. Better to just buy 1 and get a good one. For the CPU i went a faster dual core then a quad core, but that is me alot of people here have quad. I would say try to get a core with the new 45nm instead of the 65nm. It runs cooler and it is usually cheaper. Also i might go with a full tower case instead of a mid tower. you will get a little better air flow with a full. I don't think you need that much power in your power supply. I asked the techie about the same thing and he just said that 550 watts should be fine just make sure it is sli ready and Modular is nice to have too (the one i got was about $100). Those are my 2 cents. If you want to know what i got just let me know, i bought it about 2 months ago so all my stuff should still be out there... try zipzoomfly.com they where cheaper for alot of stuff.


EDIT: here is the link to the wiki and it is call symbolic link not system link.