Most bang for the buck upgrade question

Hi all.  I am currently using VMWare Workstation for Windows v6.x and have noticed that when I have three open tiles, my machine seems a little slow.  Current specifications are:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750

RAM: 8 GB

OS: Vista Ultimate (64-bit)

OS disk: Velociraptor 150 GB

VM disk: 1 GB Western Digital (all VMs are on this drive)

SMV (RAM): SCO UNIX (512 MB), Windows XP Pro (2 GB), Windows XP Pro (1 GB)

My question is the following, which would give me the best bang for my money:

  1. Upgrade to a Q9550.

  2. Allocate more RAM for the virtual machines (I currently use about 6GB with all the tiles running and what Vista takes on the host)

  3. Build a new machine with an i7 processor.

  4. Move virtual machines to a single Velociraptor.

  5. Move virtual machines to a RAID0 array (using two drives of 1 GB / 7200 RPM).  I know THAT RAID-0 has no redudancy; I would be back up critical files to an external drive of 1 GB.

On these machines, I do some scripting/small database unix (SCO VM) and especially the word processor (several documents) / some work with audio products/editing Adobe (WinXP VMs).

Thank you, in advance, for your input.

I would like to start with more and faster for the VM disks.

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