Nice going with the 3800. I like recycling! I bought a HD for my last gamer (sata 300), but for everything else I've been working from a pile of 'used' drives. I still have 6 or so left.

I just built a x2 4200 using a 4 gig HD. I think there is about 1 gig of space left on the drive for swap file. It does not thrash, but there is no room to patch the os (this one may be upgraded when I 'inherit' a new 'used' drive.

I am going to have to talk to you about spending so much on a 'crunching' motherboard......

I really like the x2 4200's. they run cool and roll out the results. The price has come down in the last week. But after building a x2 4800 (@ 100 wu on pi), I might change to these...slowly.