I know , I know!! Windows ME is no good and Windows XP is wonderful and you can only get the hyperthreading feature to work with XP!!!But - I have an old friend (82 years) who currently has a P3/500 with a 16 meg vid card etc ( you know the stuff- about 4 years old) who has asked me to build him a new machine up to a certain value . For that value, I can build him a P4/3 gig with 800FSB, DDR400 ram, a nice vid card, etc . It will blow his socks off!! -- But he refuses to shell out for a new Operating System . He says he is perfectly happy with Windows ME and why would he want to shell out x hundreds of dollars (Australian ) for a new operating system. As a happy Windows ME user myself (but with only a P3/1000 machine, I can understand where he is coming from.So - is there anybody out there that uses ME with such a late model system ? If so, I can imagine that you don't get the advantages??? of Hyperthreading -- but can you offer any comments?Thanks Barry

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Barry,Drop the CPU back to a 2.66 and the video card to a 9500Pro while you can still get them and w the money you just saved buy XP Home.He will never notice the difference between the 3.06 and the 2.66. He won't miss the hyperthreading becuase there are so little programs actually using it. Not to mention it hurts benchmark performance in simulations and gaming and with the money he saved he can get the cake and eat it to.A blazing fast machine, nice Video card and memory and an OS that can truly take advantage of it.Bobby