Wizards... Esp. you guys that are into hot hardware and ¨roll yer own¨ computers.. Please comment on this matter. I , no doubt, am labouring under some misconceptions.. But having decided that my own baby needs an upgrade.. ( the Hard drives are ok.. and the power supply, oh yean the case...( thermaltake X) Tho I haven´t put the fishtank mod in yet.. I suspect this case will be around for a very long time. I am most interested in Athlon 64bit processors rather than Intel, tho.. I am open to suggestions . Would like to find a MOBO that could or would have up to 4 spots for processors, but which wont bother anything if there is only one, or two.. to start .. For Athlon 64s, multi proc...( i.e. 2or more of Athlon 64 or Opteron , Which looks as if it is intended as a ¨celeron¨ lower price points etc..??? ) And just for fun, is anyone using Suse ( any level I guess but 9.3 certainly ) on any of the dual processors in one chip??? Would it be better to use two of those rather than 4 opterons, for instance. I need the processing power, but don´t see too many MOBOs that would be *desktop* ready. They seem not to have builtins i.e.onboard firewire, USB, sound chip,ethernet, and so on... they also seem to have only two or three slots for things like ethernet or sound, or video etc. That is understandable if they expect folks to just build a server around that system... but ye olde reality requires that the Mobo have builtins for a lot of that stuff, or enough pci slots to take care of those items... As to the two named boards, Asus /Tyan I don´t see any adverts ffor any others, so you most certainly enlighten me there . :-) TIA -- j