Hi Adam I built a Athlon 64, it is fast. It is not stable yet. I am having a problem with sporadic reboots. I am not getting much help yet. I am going to attempt installing it as a standard PC, no ACPI. When I receive my new hard drive and I have time. This worked on another unit 2 or 3 years ago. It was also a FIC mainboard. FIC support just told me it was a beta mainboard. I did not know this before I purchased it. I don't think many 64 bit software is release yet. That when Athlon 64 will really pick up steam, in my opinion. Good Luck Richard F. Bolha On 22 May 2004 at 2:30, Adam Favre wrote: > 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. PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml