A bit of a warning to anyone thinking of upgrading to duo chips and the latest motherboard sockets. Unless you are VERY tech. savvy DON'T. A lot of this new stuff is just not retail ready.

Example: Just built a new system based on an AM2 socket platform. [MSI K9M Platinum AM2 platform /Amd 64 x 2 4600 2.4Gtz / Antec Neo HE 500w PSU / 7600GT PCI express video card / Corsair Twinx matched low latency RAM / etc. ] Apart from having to flash a new CPU bios [don't even think about it unless you know what your doing] and upgrade all the motherboard chip drivers etc. etc. nothing is really retail ready.

Everything in my system is now Sata cabling yet the latest Pioneer DVD optical drive [sata] needed a 'flash' firmware upgrade [don't even think about it unless you know what your doing] to work properly and the motherboard needed all sorts of chip upgrades and XP had a hissy fit trying to install!

I'm still woking on everything and it's coming togeather fine, but if your on a stable system at the moment ... stay there!