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Mark, >> What are you doing? I understand the research shows only marginal gains after more than 4 chips are installed on system because of overhead. << what am I doing? With regard to what? I'm just running the PC department at MetroLight and animating, that's all. DEC minimizes the overhead, as does SGI, by using very large caches per CPU (4mb each for the Alphaserver) and by having a fast memory bus (1.2gb/Sec). The systems architects squeeze the most out of every chip. If you check the benchmarks you'll see this. Intel OTOH is probably a little behind on this, although individual systems manufacturers could architect some nice P6 motherboards. Quad P6's sound like the most I've heard of with that CPU, so far. Martin