I presently have an Asus motherboard for my P4-2.8C and have been pleased with it. I have read many positive things about the Asus P6T. However, for firewire performance, I have read that the TI chipset on the Gigabyte boards are far superior to the VIA chipset on Asus and most other i7 boards. There are many glowing reviews about the Gigabyte i7 boards as well.
I am trying to decide between 12GB and 6GB RAM. That is a nice video card but it is probably overkill for a non-gamer that is just looking for CS4 acceleration. It will be interesting to see if future versions of Vegas take advantage of GPU acceleration.
I appreciate the input and advice. Please keep it coming.
Steve