Well it's probably equal to a 2.3 Ghz s940 FX if such a beast existed to give you an idea, but it will also be 90nm as well eventually, as well as 1Mb and dual channel. I just can't see a downside. I think I will time it with a Nvidia PCI-Express/Soundstorm Nforce4, 2Gb of memory and 512Mb SM3 Doom 3 card ! Probably also on WinXP64 release to make it a 64bit box purely !