Hey folks, im looking to upgrade my pc and just need some advice. Basically all I need is soundcard and cpu advice, I'll fill in the rest later.

Soundcard: Maudio delta 44.

The reason ive chosen this card (aside from the main reason that it suits my needs) is because I've heard they've got great driver support. If you bag this card please note I live in OZ so some cards you've had good history with in the states might not even be sold here.

CPU: Hmmm
Thinking about some specialist technology like hyperthreaded or dual cpu's. ALso if anybody knows much about 64bit architectures coming up, namely when people will start distributing progs compiled for IA64 and what ClawHammer/SledgeHammer/Whatever is supposed to be like etc.
-Are any of the softsequencers multithreaded?

Video Card: Matrox g550 or maybe even parhelia just because I've heard that 2d quality and frame rate is second to none but I've only read this. If anybody has seen a g550 or parhelia against another card tell us about it. Do they make that much difference?
PS. i dont give a turd about games.

NO FLAMES plz

[This message has been edited by Jiddu (edited 03-28-2003).]