just as a side note blast3r.. are the new i7 CPUs that good? i can understand the logic behind them but over say a duel core 3.2 to an i7 2.66 OC'ed to 3.2 what would be the performance improvement do you think? thats assuming you meant with similar specced other parts ( 6 gig ram atm was thinking of going for 12gig on the i7 system if its worth it?)