i couldnt decide what to buy now so i just grabbed a chaintech vnf3-250and a sempron 3100+. before you give your opinions releize that the cg revision sempron can reach 2.5 just as easily as other a64s. and cache matters little to the performance of any of the k8s. all in all it only cost me 170 dollars. not bad. of course i intend to get a high end performance rig around christmas time with something like an nf4 and maybe and the highest performing 939 proccesor. who knows maybe i could afford sli. what do you think i should be considering? i can spend around 2 grand at that time. and what do you think about the sempron?