well, i went out and got it for a few reasons: finally installing it i have noticed a big difference when loasign heavy games, such as BF2 which does demand a LOT of memory, loadign quicker, near next to no hard drive activity, as it doenst need virtual memory like it used to. also, if AMD bring out anothe rnew chip, that in theory would mean current chips would slightly drop in proce, as im not one who goes out any buys the brand new stuff, so my PC4000 would then cointribute to increase in speed if and wehn i do upgrade. so as i say, each to his own but thnks for the advice guys! will also keep my eye on my memory to see if any problem do occure.