} I will admit a lack of experience with these Athlon64 CPUs, however. I } don't have any of them. } } Identically clocked Athlons run 15-20C hotter than my P4-Northwoods in } identical rackmount profiles and cooling strategies. I have a feeling {after several arguments {search on soundonsound.com} and much shopping} that will very soon be the standard against which things will be measured. It's a very popular {Opterons as well} processor in Winworld {despite the fact that there's no software that takes advantage of it.} Windows64 will be out of beta soon enough and I'm sure that the platform will go. :} Seeing as there's already a large base of folk with the hardware already set up and ready to install the upgrade on. ...And because the hardware's really cheap and easy to put together. {Once it goes... Intel's going to have to come up with an alternative {and this time they won't be defining the platform} etc.} Perhaps it's something to consider. {Both when choosing a compiler and when evaluating hardware.} ---------------------------------- E-Mail: RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 02-Jul-2004 Time: 21:24:17 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------