I am thinking on the same lines. If I have to pay for all new stuff (not counting the chip) I may as well go AM2. Pricing is about the same for either.

Sure AM3 is due out soon but who is to run out and do it for several months until most of the issues are addressed and price are a little more inline.

If I going to have "old" stuff , it may as well be "new old stuff".

I have an old celeron (a what?) 2.8ghz socket 487 I am thinking about getting a board and some memory for and using that awhile until I can everthing else together. A little over clock to 3.0 and say a gig of memory should be able to do what I want.

Anything is better than this PII 500 thing I am trying to on now.

Thanks for the input