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I'm using a couple setups. I have a remote pc and a couple PC's that stay put in the studio.
For remote I use a Dell w/ a 6600 core2 quad. I moved the guts into a 19's pc rack . For the studio the main pc is a homemade Dual XEON 5430 w/an Intel Motherboard. Both have 4 gig.
The Xeon system has a scsi setup. The Dell has a stock sata. I can do atleast 150 tracks with the Dell. With The Xeon I've done about 400 tracks with instances but after actually adding it up its roughly 250 discrete tracks. I still didn't tax the CPU or harddisk with many many plugins.
The 2nd PC in my studio is used only vienna symphonic. It's Intel 6600 w/Tyan MB I have 2 96/52 cards lightlink via VSL. For Motherboards Intel and Tyan are the best. Despite was Scott from ADK thinks Asus still makes some great value boards as does supermicro and Abit has some nice boards.
For RAM I only use Micron. If I'm desparate I have been know to use Hynix or Samsung i nthe past. But I'm pretty much anti Asia as far as ram goes. I am very picky about ram. For me the thing that really gives my main system the kick is the SCSI. It's like have a UA or Powercore card for your hardsisk. It's got a risc on the controller. Never a glitch. I have never seen my cubase performance monitor go past 1/2 even with loads of data and mucho plugins. For power supplies I like the Ultra X3 . But the Corsair is what I have in my VSL pc in it is solid.
I keep my pc's in a separate room so noise and heat are never a factor
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