Well, once I have some PC-2700 DDR for the 3rd box on the garden, I plan to do a 98lite install, run a benchmarking Vue scene that will eat cycles and bang on the ol' memory management, then reformat and do the same with Win2k, just to see if the good version of 98 SE can keep up with the older boy. I want to make sure I have good, stable hardware underneath before I test, and as they have to be tested on the same set up to have any meaning.... BTW, Totally Off Topic (sorta) and for those who use 2k and Xp and dream of cutting the fat out of them... They have a very limited beta of XPlite out now for owners of 98lite to give a spin. And it is =sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet=. It runs as a native windows app, and the first thing it does is give you a toggle command to switch off the Windows file protection scheme. After a reboot, you can remove some of the fluff from 2k and XP (they limited it to things like media player, fonts, wallpaper, etc, so that there was no chance of damaging the system). And once you're done, you can switch the file protection back on. So far the beta has worked on XP Pro and Win2k pro with nary a bobble. Shane Brooks has even said he's considering coding an NT desktop replacement DLL, that would be along the lines of the Win95 desktop...as in no active component. Sigh. Now I just have to copy the IE 6 key at the top of the registry stack and keep it for when I get rid of that bugfest abortion of a so-called web browser, to fool all these proggies that swear they -have- to have IE to even install (they lie, btw...except for MS Office, latest editions). It's amazing just how stable Windows can get when you scrape the 'ease of use' crapola off of the actual OS. And HT is is admittedly not marchitecture, in that it does exist. However it is marchitecture whenever they lay the schmooze out to where you have to be technically literate to understand that it is -not- some magic replacement for a genuine dual CPU set up. Using unused execution pipes is a good idea, but if a coder writes his stuff to -use- those pipes, then HT is a fizzle. Well, except maybe at the prefetch and branch predictor stages.