> FSB on this beast to the best of my knowledge should be plenty fast > (200MHz x ? As I understand it, the AMD64 architecture doesn't have a front side bus. AMD are promoting the chips on the basis that they don't have the memory bottleneck of the 32-bit Intel architecture. I'm currently researching a piece on AMD64 for Sound on Sound, so I'd be glad to hear about any real-world experiences. I'm waiting for a case to be delivered, so I can build an Opteron 240 machine based on an Asus SK8V board. Cheers Daniel