Thanks for the help everyone. It looks like I'm going to be able to get away with this for under $700, which is what I was hoping. One thing I forgot to mention is that I'm currently using two PCI sound cards for my recording and playback duties. I had planned to swap these over to the new system to...

Hello, My old trusty computer is finally running out of steam. I just bought a new toy, a video recorder that records with H.264 format, and my system can barely play back the files. So I'm using this as an excuse to finally upgrade. It's been many years since I last built a PC, which was done with ...