I've seen reviews of the latest quad-core processors from Intel, and they're not quite as good as they seem. 1: They're two twin-core chips in one package, each pair with their own cache, and the load/cache balancing isn't good. 2: Few programs take advantage of the extra cores, which may be, in part, a problem with Windows. 3: The programs which do get an advantage are multi-core-capable, CPU-intensive, graphics programs. Not the games market it's being pitched at by the adverts. I really don't want to spend money on new hardware like that until I know how it works with Poser 7. What's interesting is that AMD are working on the idea of graphics processors on the main die, which are very good at some sorts of math. It's a year or two down the line, Poser 8 territory, perhaps, and the same sort of specialised market that those really expensive ATI cards are sold for. But I can remember when the floating point math processor was a seperate chip. There's always something new.