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700 watts... wow it doesn't sound like you have enough to use that much power and may be overkill there... 400-500 watts is plenty enough. I have three hard drives, two burners, and a CD drive and still don't even use near my 400 watt power supply. 2GB for WinXP is great but if you are heading to Vista you need at LEAST 4GB and make sure your MB can handle that much RAM. How can you do with only 160GB HD... wow. I have 1TB (1000 MB) with three hard drives (two SATA and one IDE [for backup]). Your benchmark scores sound decent enough although right now for the money the dual-cores are outperforming the quad-cores when it comes to a price/performance standpoint. Hopefully when AMD gets their butt in gear with their quad-cores the prices will come down but for right now my dual-core does most all jobs beautifully. Your L2 cache being at 2MB is good (better than some dual-core 1MB caches [I don't understand that at ALL]. I believe the quad-cores are coming with 4-16MB of cache which will really speed things up. The thing obviously that is slowest in computers and people don't realize sometimes is the hard drive. Samsung is really making a case for solid-state hard drives which I will be writing about a bit later... they last longer, no moving parts and I believe they are like 33% more fast than conventional SATA drives. AND their MTBF rates are higher as well.... Sounds like you have a solid system there! Thanks Zelo