I have just purchased a new Pentium 4, 1.5 gHz, with the XP Home Edition. Not being able to load the driver for my scanner (new driver versions for XP are not available and will not be), I asked my supplier to install Win98 as a second OS on the system. That should also take care of any potential problems of running Fractint on this new machine. This double OS approach is even suggested on Microsoft's site for users who still want to run older programs which cannot be compatible with XP even with its "compatibility wizard" feature. During the few hours that I managed to 'play' with this new toy, I tried running one of my semi-useless programs performing a calculation and recording the time it takes. This new one took TWICE AS LONG as my current P3-550e! I'm anxious to test if this is due to the XP or the P4. I also intend to test how Fractint speed will be affected. Raymond Filiatreault _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com