This is a good alternative. Unfortunately, the fan keeps running as does, I think, the fan on the graphics card if you have one but this is a relatively minor nuisance. Bill On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 01:34 PM, David Flory wrote: > I installed an early 1 Gig board and haven't had problem one. Of > course I've always set energy saver to not sleep the cpu, sleep the > monitor and spin down the drives when possible. As demonstrated in the > recent power draw figures, the draw is negligible, about as much as a > little night lite.