Hey russell amazing price for the 52xRW drive...

I was thinking that after Xmas it will be time to search for prices for Mobo+processor+ram myself (as in february prices usually drop a bit)

And its the same "teological" question as always AMD vs. Intel

So the new amds go 64Bits... but theres no software yet able to take advantage of it...And the Intels have hyperthreading (and maya recognices 2 processors on render)... yet on the latest benchmarks i saw the amd64 still beated the PIV3000HT on brute force 32bits proccesing (not by much, but if we take into consideration Price/power...)

I havent been able to extract exactly what hyperthreading does from under the marketing blurbs that "explain" it... does it effectively doubles the processor instructions/sec for programs able to use more than one processor?... (kinda what happens with DDR memorysvs old normal memory) Or its just a cosmetic word for general processor optimization on multitasking?