Currently have three computers at home... All are AMDs with MSI mobos that I've assembled... Of course my higher end computer I use for my 2D/3D stuff...It currently is an AMD XP 2500 (Barton) with 1 gig of memory... Right now there two candidates of cpu/mobos within my budget... One is the AMD A64 3200 the other is the Pentium D 805... The A64 has a faster clock speed but the D 805 is dual core... I also realize I may have to replace my ram (DDR) and video card (AGP)... Any thoughts??? I may post this in the Paint Shop and Vue forums as those are the packages I mostly use... Cheers Ken