Skuzzy,
I aplogise for asking this question in the first place. Thinking about it, answering my original request may place you in a hard spot liability wise by asking you to reccommend a complete system design to one of the paying customers. Also it's lazy on my part........
Kinda looks like I will build everything around an Intel 955X Express chipset with 1G DDR2 667Mhz RAM, and a P4 3.73Ghz Extream Edition processor. Dual core sounds nice but, it's more oriented to business, cad, and multimedia applications. I'll stick with single core HT. The 955x has dual core compatibility.
So video cards will be PCI Express ok. Question is who's PCI Express video card gives better results on the Intel chipset for this game? nVidia or ATI? I always buy ATI for some reason. I'll look through the reviews.
Since I will be able to do RAID natively now, does RAID improve game performance? Never really had to worry about it till now. Also are there any companies offering this chipset on a system board without the Intel sound chipset? Will have to look around. Whats a current sound card that works reliably with Aces High? This could be a fun search.
Designing a cooling strategy. That will be interesting. I've noticed the internet is loaded with strategies. What works and what's just lights and noise? I'll have to lurk some sites and get a handel on case design vs. cooling strategies.