If you have a Pentium 4, with over 256 megs of ram, a SCSI harddrive or raid setup, and you are using Windows98 then you are a fool, you are wasting your money because Windows wasnt designed to take advantage of the power of the Pentium 4 however Linux IS optimized for special Pentium 4 specific instructions. If you are using a Pentium 4 with 256Mb of RAM, sell it and get a 1.4Ghz Athlon with 128Mb DDR RAM. You have just doubled your speed. 'Whatever' Cheap & Quality Web Design http://www.ultimadesign.co.uk Wrong, The Pentium 4 is more powerful than the AMD, We arent talking about clock speed but the fact that Pentium 4 has more cache, the fact that its better designed. You are right DDR ram is faster and more efficient than SDram, however SDram is cheaper, so you could easy put in a gig of ram for the price of 256 megs of DDRram. A gig of ram of course, is going to be better than 256 megs of DDR even if its not as fast. Aside from the hardware however, its the software which really matters, currently the software in windows is not designed for this hardware, its designed to run on the weakest machine, meaning a cheap pentium 100mhz.