2 new systems choices

[Shish]

Hi guys.
Need to make some fast (Monday 23rd am) decisions on a pair of new systems so any hard facts, personal experience, links to good comparisons etc welcome. The reason is I have been offered a very good deal on some hardware for a project and I'm only on the net via a laptop which ain't easy for me to use physically. So here goes.....
System 1 Either:-
AMD Phenom II 2.8Ghz on an Asus M3-A78T with OCZ DDR2 1150 2x4Gb memory and an ATI 4850 1Ghz mem. OR
Intel Q6600 G0 SLACR 2.4Ghz on a Gigabyte GA-EP45C plus either of OCZ DDR2 1150 2x4Gb memory or OCZ DDR3 1600x4Gb plus the ATI again.

System 2 Either:-
I7 920 2.66Ghz plus 12Gb OCZ 1600 DDR3 or appropriate memory for the board specified of 12Gb which can be any of Asus P6T, P6T Deluxe V2, P6T WSPro.
This board combo will also have dual 4870 1Gb cards and several raid5 setups/wifi hardware access point/teamed network access to 5 separate domains via hardware 1Gb lans/ run on a high end server OS/be a PRO Workstation as well as a personal games, graphics design, network and domain controller and anything else a Pro, semi high end server could have on it or be used for. T'other system is a personal system for some gaming/DC/general home use etc.
Don't care if you wanna make silly comments or serious but this is for real world decisions and both will be specced by Monday morning 23rd, supposing it kills me in the process. And I am stuck in bed this week at least so go for it guys and have fun or be serious, all comments welcome.

[Bok]

System 1 I think either is just fine. I might be tempted to go with the PhenomII myself as it's faster at stock and mines been rock solid so far. Any reason not to use the Phenom 940 rather than the 920 though? Very little price difference to go to 3ghz..

System 2, well there is no choice in your post

Bok

[IronBits]

System 2 is your only choice if you are getting *any* kind of deal, it flat beats the competition in so many ways.
It will do 3.5GHz by only adjusting the FSB to 175 (of course you *NEED* something other than the stock HSF)

If you had to take a step down, then System 1 Phenom should be your 2nd choice.

[Shish]

Thanks guys. Systems are not for me actually tho' I will be building them.
System 2 is mainly a board choice and I think he is expecting a bit much but there is a lot of kit to go on it for work/pro use and I'm only sourcing the extras after the basic build is complete. The deal is that if I spend £x on hardware I get a substantial discount from the distributor but those are the only choices of parts I have for the 2 complete systems.
I have no experience of the new Phenom yet but think it may beat the Intel a bit so that's the way I'm leaning. Personally, I'd wait for the DDR 3 which is available now tho' the memory performance isn't spectacularly different enough to matter. Oddly enough, on system 1, the cost comes out the same with DDR3 or DDR2 depending of course on final system spec. System 2, well the guy practically lives at work (a bit like I did for many years) and runs a quite big outfit with a very good rep and still expanding rapidly but like every business nowadays has cash limits so it is both a personal and a work machine and will be worked to death whatever I put in it.
Appreciate the help as I'm almost completely stuck, physically, this time.

[IronBits]

Well, the I7 rig will be over $1,000 easily... something to keep in mind, but, if it's not your money /shrug

[Shish]

Thanks IB, it will need to do a lot of hard work, just glad I'm not setting it up,just the hardware. And price isn't too important but still a consideration. Probably a tax allowance for new equipment but he can't spend the money for a commercial price system, needs to stay reasonable. As usual, wants the Earth but got money for an asteroid but he is a very good friend and ex-colleague who has scratched my back in the past and will continue doing so. I'm leaning towards the Asus WS Pro but have no experience of memory etc for that system. I do know it will get hammered. Too many drugs just now. My brains just barely ticking over.

Any more personal or other comments from anybody? I'm ordering before Monday noon.