IMHO your better off getting a DDR2 only mobo. DDR3 wont be affordable anytime soon in 4GB. And besides, the mobos with both ddr2 and ddr3 typically dont have a dual channel memory configuration and you will loose out on memory bandwidth which does effect SHIV.
I also wouldnt get more than one SATA drive - you can get up to 1TB unformatted anyway these days. If you look at the research, the more drives you have the greater the risk of failure. RAID 1 is a waste of storage space and raid 5 requires a hardware xor engine for performance and above all its just more cost and complexity. RAID isnt a backup solution anyway so your still left with the problem of backups. HDDs are the most unreliable component of a PC.
The 9800GTX is delayed and wont be available until atleast late March. It will be paper launched in February but no channell availability until late March.
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