If your going to be using dsp cards (uad/powercore etc) I would scratch networking pcs together. You will have no end of problems with increased latencies from the cards not to mention the complete pain in the arse that you cannot run the slaved plugs guis on the master machine.
Get a nice dualcore AMD X2 chip and Nforce4 motherboard. You get dual cpu performance with a single chip and it will all cost a fair amount less than a dual cpu machine.
Even though Live doesnt support multithread right now Im pretty sure it will in the future, and they seem to do a new x.0 release each year. Not to sure about PT LE but I know the main versions are multithreaded so the dualcore will be a godsend when using that.
I would recommend the AMD X2 4400 chip (or even a 4600/4800 if you can afford one) and a board from Asus, DFI, MSI should do you well.
Its worth checking the nuendo and cubase forums hardware sections and checking what other people are using, stealing ideas from them as there is some good info from the people that are pioneering this kit.
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