Yeh well we'll see how it performs when I install it 2morrow night.
Now what do I install vista or xp (I have to keep the masses happy : Look darling fast machine ! - the last one I built she said her work pc was faster FFS

) ? linux is gonna go it after I see how baldly it performs with xp... It'll be dual boot.
Thinking of partioning it like the :
2x120gig RAID0 ext3 20gig 10gig NTFS and the rest FAT32 made via linux so that both os's can see it.
Thing is that if I partition it like this wont I reduce the RAID performance gain ?