Ever since Scott Hanselman posted about the developer rig that Jeff Atwood built for him, I've been thinking about getting a new box. Over Christmas, my younger brother regaled us with the story of his new 8-way server, and how he pitted it against a much more expensive commercial server -- and won. So, of course, we sat down with my laptop, went to NewEgg and spec'ed out the new dev machine. I'm looking at doing more and more work on parallel programming, so a quad-core was the minimum requirement. ...