I spoke with my tech guy today who services and sells my computer stuff and apparently only a few of the top end P4 motherboards allow for more than 1 gig of RAM. Also, according to him the ram cannot be fully utilized unless I get a special hard drive that spins/retrieves data faster. Tell me though as a tech guy would you reccomend going with the new RDRAM or the older SDRAM. There's a big difference in price and I think that the new motherboard that allows for more than 1 gig or RAM might only use the newer more expensive type. For anyone who's interested the m-boards that allow more than 1 gig of ram are limited to 16 gig of ram. A dual CPU system is definitely out of the question at least for the next couple of years, its apparently more complex to put together than I thought. If nothing else thanks for the tip on where to go for good prices Silver. Yours truly, Farang