>Don;t know exactly, will ask, but to support your perception my >brother (on XP) moved to an AMD board (probably the same as yours: >this 1200 number rings a bell) and he says it has been a quantum >leap forward wrt to the old Intel chip (a ~1GHz) Given that a quantum leap is the smallest increment possible, does this mean that the above is a good thing or a bad thing ? ;-) Paul --