[linux-audio-user] moterhboard and sound card advise

Hi I am planing on putting together a rack unit to use as an effects processor. Does anyone, and I am sure you do, have any views on motherboards and soundcards for this. For a sound card I was thinking of creative audigy2 or is this over kill? I need duplex and midi in at a minimum. I have no idea on whats good and whats not on motherboards and the more I search, the worse it seems to get - sigh. As this machine is going to spend most of it's time doing DSP, I figured more and high speed RAM is good and hence a faster FSB which I think means a faster processor as well, specially at 400Mhz for the FSB but is it worth it? Does it make a difference? Any comments would be much appreciated. Thanks -- Veronica Merryfield, somewhere in Cambridgeshire, UK