"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[LUCI5R]

Remember also that your hard drive is the slowest part of your system, and will stiffle some of the gains when working with large files. Going to RAID0 may give a bigger boost than SSE4.

How do you setup RAID0? Do you need two hard drives for that? Can you point me in the right direction to reading a bit more about this - something for a somewhat n00b. I've never experimented with RAID0 before.

Have you run the WinRAR benchmark on both chips to see the differences between the 2 chips?

That's a mistake I did make. I should have saved benchmarks from my previous chip. I don't have any actual numbers from my system to do an actual comparison. I'm just going off my physical memory/experience.