Hi everyone,

This is my first post but I have been reading the forums for a long time so first of all, hello! Thinking a year travelling might finally cure my addiction I find myself heading home wanting to multibox - good God....

Anyway, while I´ve been reading stickies galore and paying close attention, I wondered if someone wouldn´t mind going over my proposed hardware specs and answering a few questions just to make sure Ive got it right before spending a lot of money. Wasn´t sure whether Hardware or Newcomers was the right
place for it; hope this is the best place to post.

Here´s the rig:

Intel® Core™2 Quad Q9550 (4 X 2.83GHz) 1333MHz/12MB

8GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR 1066MHz

ASUS® P5K SE: DDR2, SATAII, PCI-e x16, 2 PCI, 3 x PCI-e x1

64 BIT WINDOWS® VISTA HOME PREM SP1

500GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

300GB WD VelociRaptor® SATA 16MB CACHE (10,000rpm)

1024MB GEFORCE 9600GT PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

600W Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan

ASUS SILENT KNIGHT II PURE COPPER ULTRA COOLER

I´m using a company called pcspecialist.co.uk to make this machine so any changes to the above are limited in terms of brands/cards. Yes - I know - but the last time I built a machine 3 years ago it was the most stressful thing I´ve ever done and I´d rather just pay someone else. Kudos to them that do it but for me - never again....

So, my questions are:

1) Is that power supply aqequate for the rig I´m planning?

2) Is that graphics card worth the upgrade from the 1024MB 8800GT or is the difference really not there atm?

3) I´m planning to put the OS on the 500GB hard drive and running two installations of WoW (one for the main, another for the slaves) on the Raptor drive. Is that the best idea for performance?

4) Processor wise am I seeing a worthwhile difference from the 6600 that´s recommended for multiboxing. The rig will be used not just for WoW but for future games/music processing apps so is it worth spending that extra for the difference?

5) I´ve read something about problems with SLI (not somethingI know much about) with Nvidia cards - am I affected by that or is it only if you try to run 2 cards in XP?

6) I was determined not to upgrade to Vista for a long time given how long it took for XP to get its act together but I understand there´s less driver support for XP64 and I want that 8GB - I also do some heavy audio processing so I can´t get enough RAM. Is Vista chugging along pretty well now or should I go the XP64 route regardless? (My spidey-sense tells me I´m opening a can of worms here, heh heh)

So, that´s it really. Thanks for helping and any advice will be gratefully received! I´m looking forwarding to joining in a lot more once I´m up and running!