Will the AMD 955 x4 Phenom II suffice for my needs
The machine I'm typing this on is a 955x4 Phenom II, it'll do fine. I have an 8800GTX on an ASUS motherboard, 750W PSU. 1 SSD 1 laptop drive 1 10krpm 74gb drive. All my real storage is on a Drobo in the rack, local disks are just fast and small.