And on a compeltely piss-me-off note...

...my motherboard just crapped out.

I just got a $300 paycheck.

I can either:

Get a really nice video card AND memory upgrade, and downgrade to a single-CPU system

or

Get back up a dual-CPU system with a crappy video card (my Kyro bit the dust as well recently) and barely enough memory to make the system happy.

Unfortunately, as big a proponent of SMP as I am, up there with arcturax, I'm afraid I'm slipping back down to the realm of single-CPUism.

And on that note... anyone want a known-good working 1.4Ghz/1600 Athlon MP CPU? It'll work fine in a single-CPU Athlon-XP-type system. Make me an offer! (714)539-6547

I'd honestly rather sell it today and turn that around to more hardware since I'm going shopping anyways. As a note, PriceWatch lists OEM Athlon MP 1600's as selling for $115, and OEM XP 1600's as selling for $53, so I'll part with the known-good MP 1600, retail from a box w/ AMD fan (though I lack the box now) for $50-75, depending on if I need to ship it to you, or you can come pick it up!

Well... back from Fry's!

Look what I've got, Ma!

Yeah, I got a new power supply and a new video card, long story short, I found out I could fix my system and just needed to get a new power supply to feed the beast. =-.-= So, I fixed it, fed it, and upgraded the video. Now I get 72+fps at 800x600 6xFSAA w/ 16x Anisotropic Filtering. *watches everyone's eyes glaze over* Um... it looks REALLY smooth with all the look-pretty options turn on! =^.6=