is the fan inside theDuron retail box good enough

yah they should be if you dont over clock.

Oh aye its guaranteed, but I'm not too sure about the stuff inside. - Scotty

They will do fine, as long you don't overclock it.

My case has so many fans that it hovers above the ground .

There's actually no register or anything that's flipped on. The cores are actually the same, but AMD won't guarantee 100% functionality with anything other than MP's. There's one thing that most people don't really understand, and that is that the chipset is actually the one that does all of the MP work, the processor really doesn't have to even be designed for MP in dual processor scenarios. Take for example your regular vanilla Pentiums. Those were never designed for MP systems, but there were lots of them out there. I've got a dual P90 here at the office, they're not even the same stepping, but they do work. Intel won't guarantee their working, but they work. With AMD, it's the same deal. I've even tried placing a P100 and a P90 together, and they work, but the P100 runs at 90 obviously.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by lucol on 01/28/02 10:03 AM.</EM></FONT></P>