The Logic Off Topic list

>   Your setup sounds great but it's just not practical
>my SCSI card is high end and has a seek time of 3.4 ms
>I haven't seen a 7200 rpm card(or a 10,00 rpm card for
>that matter) come even close to that!

[snip]

>Spent a lot on my SCSI rig and I won't
>throw it away.



Yes high end SCSI raids are fast indeed.  OTOH fast *enough* is an 
entirely different kettle of fish.  The nice thing about doing it 
with firewire is that if you hit the performance wall with one (and I 
know of no one doing hard disc audio recording who says they have) 
You can still just add another one, put some of your project files on 
it and you will be back in business and the whole thing will still 
cost you a fraction of the price of SCSI .


>My digital Video
>card runs all my effects that takes the strain off my
>cpu.

I don't know which card you use but there are pretty high end Video 
cards in the AGP slots of new Macs and more on the way.  The down 
side is that they are quite expensive compared to the exact same ones 
configured for PCs.  What's really frustrating is that the really are 
the exact same cards and there are even sights on the net where 
people will tell you the firmware hacks that will make "incompatible" 
PC video cards work on a Mac.  Anyway the upshoot is you may not need 
a PCI card for digital video.


>Two audiowerk cards for audio recording

The audiowerks are a bit obsolete at this point and could be pretty 
effectively replaced by a single card from any one of a number of 
makers if the issue is PCI slots.

>and a
>sound card witch acts as a sound module for my
>controller.

Forgive me but I am still not understanding the "sound module for my 
controller" concept here.

On my Mac rig all native audio comes out of a Motu 828 is there some 
reason why you have to use a different card?

I also have a PT d24 Mix rig taking up 3 pci slots.

If I were you I would be thinking about another couple of options as well.

#1.  Do nothing, buy nothing.  If your stuff is doing what you want 
why bother?  Unless Apple surprises us all with some stunning 
hardware announcement I guarantee that you are not going to be 
noticing an major difference between LAWP and LAMP for at least a 
half a year, and it would not surprise me if it was a full year 
before there were really any noticeable differences between LA on the 
two platforms so taking action now is just as likely to leave you 
with regrets whereas just going on being productive will not.

#2.  Buy a mac to run LAM and Sync your video PC machine to it.  I do 
something similar I have a Mac and a PC.  I run virtual instruments 
on the PC when  the Mac gets maxed out.  I prefer having everything 
in one program and one place but if you are doing serious video 
editing that is not an option anyway.