Yes, the fact of life is the state of the art is advancing so fast that while most anything you buy now will (probably) work on your next computer, a lot of it is going to be less than optimal, and will slow it down. But you have to jump in somewhere, and $50 for RAM or so should hold you for awile. The Pentium 5 is supposed to be out around the end of the year, and at that point EVERYBODIES computer will be slightly obsolete! (Plus the P4 chips will all be sold cheaper) O.K., let me do a new (Poser 5 based) test. My new computer does about 36 seconds on the existing CPU test (in my Freestuff here, incidently), which makes it one of the faster Pentiums, but still not all that good against the AMDs (my AMD 1.4 did 43 seconds). I was hopeing Pentiums did better in P5. ;-)