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I understand that, and I probably should have worded that statement differently. I would not want to run without a software firewall, but the hardware firewall does provide some protection, thus I’m not ‘defenseless’.

What sort of system do you have? WinXP? Dell? Home made? How old?

I built this WinXP SP2 box some years ago, so it’s getting long in the tooth. An old Asus 2.4GHz mobo in an Antec 1080 full tower, a tank of a case.

I just built a Q6700 Quad on an Intel mombo, Raid, etc. My second build (in process) will be using an ASUS PQ5 SE Plus and an Intel CD2 E7300. Both CPU's are stock clock at 2.66 GHz. Unfortunately I am having to wait on Rosewill to replace the DOA power supply unit that came with the case combo for the second build (PITA).

Sounds as though you have a solid tank there with the Antec. A good build.

Unless a gamer, extreme overclocking is a waste as FSB speed for the RAM (bandwidth), a 64 bit OS and 4+ GB RAM is what makes a system fast. Even at 2.66, I am finding Quads and Duo's are fast enough bar video and audio editing. Newer 3.0 GB/s HDD's and vid cards w/ 512 MB DDR2 memory and at lest 32 streaming processors really kick up the performance of the PC.

I do plan on taking that cooler running E7300 CPU to 3.0 GHz with the FSB set to 1066.