Wow! very informative thread. 2 two questions. 1) you were talking about hard drive speed... what about raid configurations? How well do these work and or they worth it. 2) Also I was fooling around on the alienware site (make computers for gamers) and they have a AMD with a 64 bit sytem and an an impressive sounding list of features Processor AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 Frequency 2.2GHz Bus Speed 1600MHz On-Chip Level 1 Cache 128 KB On-Chip Level 2 Cache 1 MB Advanced Transfer Special Features AMD64 Technology HyperTransport Technology Integrated Memory Controller what all does this translate to. Is this as awesome as it sounds?

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