Hi PcCowboy, Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 9:57:07 PM, you wrote: P> Well I dropped in a AMD 64 X2 5000 cpu and the benchmark went up to P> 4800. I already dumped this 8600 to my son and waiting for my XFX P> 8800 to come in. Now we may see a change in scores. If you can't "feel" the difference, what's the point? I doubt that you'd be able to feel either the 100 point difference or the 400/500 point difference. Your experience would seem to indicate that your computer was CPU-bound, not video-bound. -- Scott. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.