> Via bought Cyrix a while back and have tried to revive the > bargain-basement chip manufacturer. I had a few old CyrixInstead PR225 > and PR300 chips back then, PR standing for Pentium Rated. They were > socket 7 chips that ran incredibly hot. I had a PR166+ myself, that I ran quite happily for 3.5 years, with no real heat problems. I had some sig11s occasionally; and I wondered if it was the CPU, so I replaced it with a real Intel P166... which ran noticeably slower, and still had the sig11s. Scott Fritchie used a C3 for his workstation. www.snookles.com/scott/quietpc-1.html I'd certainly consider getting one, to build a quiet PC with. speaking of quiet computers, check out www.quietpc.com; drive silencers, quiet CPU fans, other goodies. :) Carl. -- Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com