Hi Burr, it looks like a killer system!

I have not been really following every single detail of the latest CPUs to be able to give much specific advice...

I think it's a pretty good idea to just let DELL worry about having all compatible stuff put together for you, definitely saves a lot of potential problems!

I guess the only thing that is maybe not quite optimal is pricing - the Xeon should work great but they may be pretty expensive compared to the brand new Core i7. But I'm not sure if there is any way right now to set up a 2-socket Core i7 system to get 8 cores instead of only 4, that's why I was interested in what you were doing for that.

But actually I'm surprised that the DELL 8-core system is not really as expensive as I would have thought neither. It actually looks pretty good in that department overall as well,

- Michael