Re: the AMD Server. It's a 2U unit with HUGE air throughput because of the heat problem. It was done for us at CCSI in Atlanta. It is not a noise friendly system, but just fine in a colocation environment. Frequency based thermal management is somewhat self-defeating, but it is fail-safe. What you really have to do is increase the cooling... I don't have a comparable Intel processor machine, but I do run a P-II 60MHz machine (P-II with a repaired FPU) running an ancient version of Linux which serves a few low traffic websites. It's uptime seems to be limited only by the frequency of successful intrusions and/or power failures. I don't have any experience with RH8.0 on the Athlon machines. RH8 is a major change so I will wait a while for it to stablize... -d