SuperPi is a program that runs Pi out to so many decimals. 2M means it runs it out 2 million times past the decimal point. It does this if I remember correctly 21 times and the time it takes total is your SuperPi 2M time. It can go out to 32 Million but that takes to long and 2M is more than enough to gauge performance. (If i am wrong please correct me but with my exp this is what I have learned). If you want I can post a link, I can load it on my websever. (It's a XP1700 AMD with 512bm Ram run off of Comcast's 6/384k service, so if I post it I will only keep it their for a few days as it taxes my broadband upload and my wife gets mad when her internet slows down.) Next FS X is an upgrade from FS2004 they use sat imagery for most landscapes. Is everything as impressive as the major cities? I don't know. I have been flying FS since 4.0 (I think) which came on floppies back in 1995. Looking back at 2004 (Which I had no upgrades on) it is much better, water is much more realistic. Planes are about the same, clouds seem better thought out. Umm..... Can't think of anything else, but if I played it more recently I could tell you (Been about 3 weeks).Intels new Core 2 Duo is amazing, it overclocks great because it runs cooler and with less power (Kind of hand in hand) than intels older products (Think almost half the heat of the P4 later chips).I do tax my processor with extreme gaming so I want something that has great overclockability and is fast to start with. This makes the E6600 a good bet. Also the new 680I motherboard support Quad Core so when they come down in price and my Core 2 can't keep up it's just an easy swap (Or so I hope). I don't know about Vista yet, I have been told by someone that when you load Ultimate it takes up a gig of ram. That seems a bit much, and I only have 2 gigs to work with. I guess I could get 1-2 more but just for an OS that works about the same? I don't know if I am willing to shell out an extra 400 for the OS and 100 for an additional gig of ram for it.About James question, you should be able to run Vista fine as you have the graphics card for it, you have a gig of DDR Ram and a fairly good processor. My main concern for you would be hard drive space, Vista home Premium (What I would suggest for you) runs about 5 gigs I was told. I currently am not helping anyone with my computer but I was doing the SETI thing for years. They went to BIONC and I am not to happy about it's stability. So for now I am just running idle at idle. However the new Nvidia card are supposed to be able to use the fold programs so you use your regular processor and then the beast in the graphics card (In my case a 8800GTX with 768 of ram) which I still have to find on sale (Good luck).psyshack is your E6600 on an intel 975X platform? Have you seen any benchmarks that made you go with that over the 650I or other chipsets? The 680i motherboards are running in the mid 200's, which is pricey but I think worth it in the long haul due to its Quad Core capability.
