amd chips are great..... and yes.. the intel chips..are not as perfect as some would like you to believe...LOL.. however.. it is all in the motherboard in pc.... there is two caches.. L1 and L2.... a p3 flip chip has 256mb L1 or on die cache...but because of the socket design.... high data transfer...the L2 cache is on the board..usually 512mb.... however a top end board... has 1.5GB... and then watch a p3 fly.... and i once did a render... in 21 minutes... a full bar scene... nine spotslights...10 characters... all with conforming clothes.. i think 31 figures was the total...... 21 minutes people....think about it... and that was before i learned how to turn the shadows off on some lights....LOL