I can only comment on K6-2's, they are the only ones i have used, 3 to date, all have been fantastic. I think that in general, a cpu by itself is meaningless. you must consider thecache/ mb and ram as well. the amd's are socket 7 boards, which i think are very mature. couple a k6-2 with a 100Mhz board, 64Mb of PC100 ram and 512kb of cache, you will spend less than an intel board and be happy. buy from a known reputable dealer. stick with a good board. (my personal favorites are asus and soyo) wathch the specs, soem boards clock down for certain chips, a 400 @ board speed of 66hz does not outperform a 300 @ 100Mhz. in my past i have used 8088's to alphas to p5/p6/p7 and amd's the amd's have been the best bang for the buck. i use dell p2's at work with nt4.0 & rh5.2 they are ok. at home however, i dropped $300 for the above and am running SuSE6.0 KDE is a memory hog, which is no surprise better off with more than 64Mb. Solaris x86 w/CDE is abotu the same. i am happy and satisfied. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>