great stuff here...thanks very much :) I've been looking at compnents lately, build my own..and have been thinking more and more of getting intel for the above reasons....Have been using AMD , however, as they perform as well as the Intels, at least from the XP line up to XP3000 Barton..but with the 800mhz Intel line, the parity is gone...plus they have now the dual channel memory which AMD based systems had previously vs the Rdram stuff... However, AMD is now releasing their 64bt processor...and the bus is 1600mhz !!! so what will that hold for us ???

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