Hey Tim; Thanks a lot for your suggestion...I will consider the VIA C3 processor. Frankly the processor is very dissapointing....a 667Mhz C3 is an equivalent of a 200Mhz Pentium PRO.....honestly that processor needs a better floating point unit...its sluggish on floating point calculations. On the positive side, Im impressed with the heat dissiaption, low power consumption. Yeah Im using a VIA P4M-266 chipset on my pentium 4, really a good chipset......what a pity Intel wanted to monopolize on the DDR chipsets....