If you can find a reseller, then for stability, you want to consider Tyan. I've got two (Tomcat IV from early 97 and the S-1590 from a couple of years later) that still perform flawlessly. Tyan made their business in the serverworkstation market; you don't get all the nifty BIOS tricks that most other manufacturers offer, but you -do- get high quality parts and rigid specifications. If lust overcomes wisdom (which it will; only ethics prodded me to point out all the new goodies; from a practical standpoint, it will be at least 2 years, more likely 3, before those new technologies have really penetrated the market. Just like when PCI first came out; you could still find ISA cards selling well a year later. Same with AGP. And there will be the problems inherent with new deployments, driver issues, -speed- issues akin to what happened to 98 when the Athlons came out, etc. Bleeding edge in the next 6 months will still be bleeding edge after....and there are a lot of steps between bleeding and Geritol-infused). And as I'm the toy-slut in the family, my wife just sighs and expects me to save up for it outside the budget...