ah.... feast or famine I guess!! Lol. It's good to see that you are back at the crunching again after your recent bout with the alternative life style that too many of us seem to have had to endure in the past five years or so! :-) Myself, I went and invested in some more win7 and picked up a couple i5 guts to replace a couple of the higher wattage C2Q systems. Also experimenting with an i3 and some gpu's to see what I can do there wattage wise. Definitely not like the years past, but am not generating the intense heat that I was before either. :-)