Personally I prefer AMD cpus tho they will die if you overcook them



I think HDD and RAM are two of the most important things to go for (tho im sure some could argue :P) when your working audio files (they can get HUGE!). Get a mobo that supports something like Ultra ATA/133 RAID (i do like the MSI boards) and nice fast HDD (7200). Get as much RAM as you can, cant get enuf of that :P



Im not a soundcard man tho, whats the best out now?
Eneah >:)