There are certian times when one's knowledge has a limit.
I suggest you watch and learn this time.
Oh, I like that. Sounds like sig material. 8)
I agree! Was a bit flattered knowing it came on my response to an uninformed reply!
The Tyan Tomcat K8E S2865 would be a great board; coupled with a few basic components. I would spend the few extra dollars and get a S939 Opteron 170, 1-2Gbs of Corsair Reg (ECC) RAM, NVidia 6600 series {(not sure about the new 7300 series) I'm an ATI fan, but will relenquish to NVidia for Linux useage!}. If wanting better sound, go with a Via Vinyl based add on card solution, high end CMedia based card, or even a Creative Live! 5.1 (now Creative Audigy SE).
I would use any of the quality power supplies (threads found everywhere, but Tagan, Enermax, Antec, Seasonic, PC Power and Cooling come to mind). Disk sub-systems I would go ahead and use SATA, and choose either Seagate's 7200.9 series, or a combo with a WD Raptor (use for OS/Boot drive). For data protection, a RAID 0 or even 5 Array would be in order. For Optical useage, I would personally go with one of the newer DVD +/- R/RW/RAM drives. DVD RAM seems to be making a small comeback, and is ultra stable for repeated backups. I would even suggest an external HDD for back-ups, since tape doesn't make fiscal sense in this scenario.