techrecovery | Cry for opinion (Reply)

So I have a computer that's been running very well for many years now. I'm starting to feel it's time to update the puppy.

By update, I mean the major things (System board, processor, video card)

Hard drives, expansion cards and other periphials will not be changed.

So, in the interest of getting the opinion of my fellow colleagues, I propose the following question to you:

What motherboard, processor, and video card would you recommend?
I'm looking to keep the price of the motherboard and chip under $600, and the price of the video card under $200.

- Don't care what brand or socket type the processor is (just so long as it matches what the motherboard supports)
- The video card must support dual output (preferably VGA and DVI, though 2 VGA is acceptable)

The hard drives will remain. They are three 80-gig drives running on ATA133 EIDE. They are not running RAID, but I have been contemplating RAID 0, unless RAID 5 now supports IDE (last I knew it was still only SCSI).

There are 5 EIDE devices (3 HD's and 2 CD/DVD/CD+RW/etc), so whatever motherboard you select for me, must have at least three IDE controllers.

So.... what do the fine people of the

techsupport community recommend?

_MaH

Added challenge: I have 10 docking areas on the front of the system (yes it's a big tower). Currently 8 are filled with CD-ROMs, Hard drives, fan bus controllers, etc. Suggestions for the other two?