So I’ve recently built a new computer for myself. Yes, it works! While it’s not the most expensive, fastest, ultra-modded rig out there, it does fly. It’s built around AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 4200+ dual core processor! Not too many programs are fully utilizing DC technology, but you can set the affinity for each running program so they can run more efficiently than w/ a single core. So for graphics you can run Illustrator on CPU1, and Photoshop on CPU2 (0 and 1 technically) and there isn’t any lag in usage. I’m running only a gig of memory right now since I’m poor, but the motherboard (Gigabyte K8U-939) can handle a max of 4GB of Dual Channel sticks. Very fast, very smart. Unfortunately I had recently purchased an AGP video card for my old computer so I wasn’t about to spend even more money on another card just to be PCI-e compliant; therefore I’m running things on an eVGA 6600GT which is still very nice for what I need it to do. I can’t understand what the hardcore gamers are complaining about cuz’ my games are looking just fine w/ decent frame rates. They think that they need the latest greatest that’s out there, which is a fools quest since there’s a new “BENCHMARK SETTING” card every other month. I’m cooling things w/ the Zalman 7000B-LED. All copper for that intimate heat transfer action; so nice! This heatsink is friggin’ huge! No seriously, it’s not small! Definitely more gooder than stock. I’m keeping things on over a terabyte of storage from Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital. I like to keep things multi-cultural. This is all housed in Cooler Masters’s Centurion 5 aluminum case that has more room than I know what to do with. Oh, yes there are blue lights, and the cables glow orange which also happens to be the colors of our recent wedding (my wife and I, not me and the computer; although she’ll beg to differ…).