gster123, regarding the article where the author did a benchmark on Maya thinking that its running on a single logic, I would like to take a look at it if you find the link. Sounds very unlikely to me that a dual core processor would slow things down since Maya has been heavily optimised for systems with multiple cores and processors. gster123 - 'Also I dont think that anyone was questioning that dual core is dual processor' I can't remember why I wrote that...