To be honest keef i've not really noticed much difference, but at themoment i don't really have much spare time to do any max or maya.

However i did benchmark my computer when it had the fx 500 in it and got a score of 7990 tested on opengl and directx8. Compared to the fx 1000 running the same test i got a score of 10,780.

Its just a bit quicker at the mometn, but then again i'm not doing anything really intence at the moment.