RISC over CISC anyday in my book.

but then, you have to have the OS to harness that power.

Pentium <4 aren't bad, but would rather an Athlon because they are less expensive.

Mittens, I am with you, my next machine I am building is going to be a Dual machine, preferable Athlon, but so far as I know there isn't a MoBo out there yet that supposrts dual athlon, in developement the last I heard.

I am interested by these next chips that are coming out that are 64-bit.

I just want something with LOTS of power and that can run some flavor of Linux.

Athlons are cheap and powerful, Pentiums are powerfull.
Antyhing RISC rocks, but they tend to be very expensive.

I don't really have a preference, I just like things that do things.

dhej