[damnlimey]

No,my brother just upgraded to 1.4 Athlon and gave me all his old bits.

[Oschisms]

2 disks configured as a RAID 0 (Striped with no fault tolerance) is definitely faster than running 2 disks as a master/slave configuration.

Personally, I've got a RAID 1 (Mirroring) because it reduces my need for backups, but it all depends on what you want.

[Brett66]

Be careful on your fan selection. Athlons can be very sensitive to any damage on the insulating interface on the fan/cpu interface. I was messing around with the insulator on a cooling orb because it was running too hot and installed it on the CPU. After about thirty seconds the thing died with a little streamer of bluish smoke during boot-up. What a painful lesson that was. The AMD approved fans work better than the non-AMD approved cooling orb from my personal experience.