Whenever you talk about processors that are different, there is a problem of comparing apples to oranges. Heck, if you look at the BogoMips (I know, not a great marker of speed) for a Pentium 166 versus a Pentium 166 MMX, the MMX chip will have a number twice that of the vanilla chip. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Never say, "Oops!" / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Always say, "Ah, \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) interesting!" [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]