A dual processor computer will greatly enhance your total computing experience. True, for individual program to to see increased benefit, they must be multi-threaded. I am disheartened to hear that p5 is not... I have been watching this forum carefully the last few days trying to make up my mind on whether or not to shell out the dough... I still haven't decided. Why are the results so mixed? Back to the original point, a dual processor machine handles multi-tasking and the OS much better than a single proc. I know that I would never go back. Dual Athlon MP 1400+ 512MB 2100DDR RAM Geforce 4 (the expensive one, can't remember which) Hercules Game Theater XP beats the crap out of my old Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz 512 MB PC133 RAM evilded777