Ok, well, I guess I have some serious considerations to make.
The guy at work who SHOULD be a NASA scientist, brilliant guy, is the one I have been hearing a lot of my advice from. He tells me he has benchmarks for me that show the 1156 socket is better to go with than the 1366, more FPS.
I think my problem is I am basing to much importance on opinion. I have been out of the loop for so long, I no longer have the facts on hand like I always used to, so I was just hoping a diehard PC guru could just more or less say, this is the best, buy this, and go that way, which more or less did happen, but then of course, I find myself questioning it like I thought might happen. Now I am going insane trying to take every moment of free time in my days to try and learn everything I have missed over the years.
I decided on RAID 5 for SOME stability/security for the files. RAID 0 is the fastest yes, but at a reliability cost, depends on how often you back up your data I guess. Also, with the right RAID controller, you can gain full speed advantages for every hard drive you add. 4 is faster than 2 with the correct RAID controller to utilize it.
Guess I might go with one card for right now then, I am still really on the fence here, I just want to look in that case window and see those 2 big power hungry monsters together, just to brag and be ready for the future, and some of the games out now DO support SLI, and were developed with it in mind, but very very few, I agree.