(Sorry for not getting back to you for a couple of days.  I should
probably add to my .signature, ``Please CC directly to me if replying to
me on a mailing list.''  (^&)

It's true that my system isn't under heavy load.  (Is that CPU load, or
I/O load---or both or either?)

Still, my observed problems at this point are performance, not integrity.
It seems unwise to update anything on the motherboard unless I'm updating
to something that is believed to be rock solid---or unless integrity
problems manifest themselves.


Thanks for the pointer to the AMD760 chipset, though.


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu