following on from my post a while ago musing about future directions of processors for CAD here [URL]http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2343[/URL] is an article explaining the present technical difficulties with single core processors... also offers insight into why multi cores are coming....although it seems these will not help CAD much without code rewrites... more useless info to fill your day : ) neil