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Stavos was all geeked about the new 3DMark05 Benchmark lastnight and convinced me to run it on my system. I have an entire section of my site dedicated to system specifications so it would be against my religion not to run a performance benchmark. I thought I'd fair pretty decently considering my recent upgrades but after getting my results I once again confirmed that no matter how current your system is, it's never fast enough. Watching a high-res graphic demo at less than 15 fps brought me back to 1995 when I ran a creative labs demo on my old IBM PS/2 65sx with similar results. Fortunately back then I was locked into the proprietary micro-channel architecture and an upgrade would have literally cost $1,000. Now with better video cards approaching the $200 mark the temptation is there, with my lack of time for quality gaming as the final boundry that will hopefully keep me in the realm of reality (and budgets).