Not bad, but as long as you're dropping some decent coin you should look at AMD's X2 chips. Not much more for a 3800+ and from what I've been reading the speed increase while multi-tasking is fairly signifigant. If you're a gamer some of the new games coming out are being set up to actually use each core for separate parts of the game which can mean huge improvements. I was told yesterday that the new King Kong game that's coming out does this, one core for the enemies AI, one for everything else. I'll definatly be going the X2 route when I build my new system sometime next month. Cheers,
Shawn