Honestly Znod... the processor wont make too much of a difference. You should see a difference between the hard-drives, but even then it will be in the milliseconds
. 10k is great for an os drive, 7.6k is perfect for a media drive
The motherboard is the only thing that scares me
When you say you 'dont have time' to build a PC, it can easily be up and running in less than 3 hours (which includes xp/vista being installed)
crabby