(esp. for 3d gaming, witch is really the only need consumers have for all that FP) Ehm... For 3d gaming you need.... Ehm, oh yeah, a 3d card... Mymy... So that's an extra processor where the current technology has as much processing power as a PIII... That's parallel processing... You give the 3d chip the task for calculating 3d and NOT the CPU... (Okay, for calculating normals you will need the CPU, but with the latest technolgy you don't even bother the CPU with that anymore!) What if we unplug the 3d card... Then there wouldn't be much left of your PIII huh?