I jumped ship and put together an Intel Q6600 box last weekend.

Swapped various drives into different boxes so that the effects of the upgrade cascaded through the small herd.

I think I now have the right clients running on each box and my RAC should slowly creep up, helping in the drive "to new heights never seen before by this team"

The sad news is that the AMD K6-2 is once again retired due to AGP problems, but hopefully that crunching powerhouse will return once I hack the AGP or stumble upon a PCI card in the catacombs or sort out how to run it headless.

UncleVom