[prophetic]

Well the CPU is now humming along at 2.7 GHZ and mostly stable on a ASROCK 939-VSTA motherboard on a 1GB Mushking PC3200 memory. I also have 5 drives (320GB - 750GB) online but just plodding along with a PNY Geforce FX5500 video card.

I can hardly wait to upgrade to a ATI Radeon 9500 XTX and do some real folding: crunching 1WU in 5 minutes!!

[texas booster]

At 2.7 GHz you will crunch a lot of work units.

The X1950 XTX with 512 MB is supposed to be a real barn burner, and the 48 pixel shaders work in parallel when folding.

Those cards will average between 550 ppd and 660 ppd. One of those cards at full speed can replace all of my home computers as far as points earned.

Five drives? Are you starting your own private Blockbuster? Or just trying too see what a 1000 watt power supply costs?