I never finished the ruminations on the CPU - it's almost certain to be the Q6600, on the basis that I won't be getting another one for a while and until I do I want some flexibility. The quad core can be overclocked to take it past the performance of the E6850, and costs virtually the same. More applications will come on line that take advantage of the multiple cores, so there's little to be gained from restricting things to just two.
However, the bad news - I'm seeing lots of reports of the Asus P5K Premium having install and boot problems with Vista, and maybe even XP, all down to SATA issues. May not be the way to go :-( On the other hand, the P5K-E doesn't seem to have the same hangups, and does most of the same for less money.
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