Greetings all. I am delving into the world of "build your own" pc's. I have been looking at processors at Newegg.com. Since my focus is gaming, my understanding is that AMD may be the way to go. My question: Should I go Athlon 64 or some other route? This will be a project machine that I will be jacking around with alot. I want to try overclocking. I want to play games. I want the frame rates to be decent to smoking on new and newer games (Far Cry, UT 2004, Doom 3). I know you ALL have much more experience than I. Any suggestions or advice? I have been reading a TON of stuff, but nothing is ever very clear. Thank you for your guidance and instruction here. I am learnign alot. The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with the OpenOffice CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml