Well i chose this specific processor because at the moment it is the best for gaming. The core is the top notch for tweaking and overclocking, and theres tons of benifits with the 939 socket. If i had the money i was hoping, i would be going dual FX or opteron lol.
As for the HDD's, i only need one because that will be a slave drive. The 40G i currently have now will be the primary, i needed a bigger hd for the music/download/ftp files because i already have 20 sumthing gigs of mp3s on it. Its got like 2gigs left lol. And i didnt go with raid because honestly i dont know that much about it, and i can get more GIG for the money on EIDE.