Cool - had not noticed that about the Intel vs the AMD times. As you can tell, I'm pretty jazzed with the quantum leap in performance with the new toy. btw - I normally leave the side-stepping status guy turned off, so in the interest of 'apples-to-apples' comparisons I just ran it again with the .avi turned on and got 44 sec. (added 2 sec). Still curious to see if someone will do a comparison between P4 & P5 on the same system.