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Reza and all; For what it is worth, I decided to get a pentium (even if I can't afford it). This is my own benchmark of CPU's. (If anyone is interested). Below are results of systems I have tried. For reasons I cannot explain, the AMD 80Mhz chip on two occasions was slower than the Intel 66Mhz chip. Why would this happen? I did a benchmark on 4 systems. The 486-25 is the one I have had for 3 years. It has worked well. 486-25Mhz Intel, 486DX2-66Mhz Intel, 486DX2-80Mhz AMD I ran the following renders with these results. All were from frame zero single renders to the screen except Plasma which was frame 25. Pentium 100Mhz 80Mhz 66Mhz 25Mhz 57Chevy :40 1:40 1:53 3:41 Birdshow :37 1:38 1:51 3:43 Chopper :14 :39 :42 1:25 OldCity3 :11 :30 :34 1:06 Here is where it gets different. I purchased the Plasma IPAS and ran Plasma2 :05 :18 :14 :27 Spheres :20 :57 :45 2:08 And then this is back to what I would expect. Water5 1:17 3:38 3:47 7:50 Spheres is just a bunch of spheres I made up of different sizes, colors, textures, and bump maps. I believe that Water5 is also from the IPAS I bought. Can anyone explain why the 66Mhz would be faster on two tests than the 80 Mhz? I am trying to decide which to purchase. I cannot afford a Pentium at this time. I am also thinking of a Cyrix 80Mhz chip, but have no data on it. Thanks, Dennis