[Technogeek]

That looks pretty good. If your going to be saving a lot of audio files, it won't take to long to fill up those HDD's though, but they will be fine for a while. I have almost 2 TB of storage between 3 comptuers, and a network storage device. That GPU will be fine for what your wanting to do. And yes, if your wanting to use 4GB of RAM then you will need either XP x64 or Vista x64 OS. I would use Vista over XP personally.

I have seen but never used the Motu 828, but it looks like a nice device. I am using the firepod, and for what I'm doing it works fine.

Those Dynaudio monitors look great! I have two Roland DS-30A which do pretty good.

If your going to be recording with live mic's in your studio, then make sure to have as quite of a system as possible. That's where I kind of went wrong. My computer sounds like a dang jet engine, so I get a lot of noise when I'm recording with any of my decent condensor mics. I have to use filters and software to clean up my recordings.

One more thing. I just upgraded to a Acer P221w 22" monitor, and it is so nice. I am running two monitors also, one is the 22" and the other is a 19". If you can afford it, get at least one nice widescreen. It's very nice when your working with Cubase 4.