I ran Lee's benchmark on my home machine (1.4GHz Athlon, Win98, Fractint 20.2.03). The result was a cool 4m43s, even better than I expected. I actually had to time a run in batch mode because fractint goes weird when I try to leave 1600x1200 graphics mode, so that time includes Fractint startup time and image loading & saving. Back when I bought my machine the Athlon 1.4 and the P4 2.0 were the fastest chips available. Most benchmarks I read gave similar performance for both, with the P4 pulling ahead only when running code optimized for it's new architecture. Also, at the time the price of CPU+Motherboard+RAM for the P4 2.0 system was something like 3x more (!) than the Athlon 1.4 system, so the choice was easy :) It would be interesting to see the same benchmark run on a P4 under Xfractint (the non-ASM version). I would expect it to perform a bit better than the DOS version. Anyone? Now for Guy's speedtst parameter, it finished in 0.86 seconds. That's actually too fast for a useful benchmark I think. Maybe we should pick one of the PARs distributed with Fractint as the (semi-)official benchmark. It would make it easier for people to run tests and compare results. Pedro