[taiyeungjai]

I like power, but not at extreme price points. The Pentium Ds are a good fit right now since AMDs seem to be going the "rolex" route. I have always viewed AMD as the better "bang" for the buck, and my previous setups were an AMD64 3200+ and P4 3.2 540J.. and even a AMD64 3200+ running at a much slower clock speed outpaces most of intel's offerings.. but with the price of their newer line of X2 dual cores, it doesn't seem that way anymore, and AMD has lost a little bit of its luster for mid level budget enthusiasts anyways. My Mobo can handle the Intel 840 XE's (not very stable yet due to the bios revision level), so thats an option later down the road when they come down from $1400 and that is quite close to the best offerings from AMD right now...

The U160 drive is an older drive from a system pull, I ended up with 2 of these drives. Both have warranties until 2008, so I don't mind using it right now until something better comes along. Actually the WD Raptor SATA 10Ks are even faster than the Seagate 15K3, but being an old school computer geek, I have always sided with SCSI, perhaps blindly..

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