Jim,
I am also watching with interest the current thread on the Fractint list about CPU speed, since I plan on soon purchasing a new machine and want to be sure I choose the one that works the best and fastest with Fractint, and not one that can't even display the VESA video modes. <<
I also kept my old Millenium video card which runs 1600x1200 VESA mode. I can't play all these new 3D video games, but I can still run Fractint very fast! I also didn't post the benchmark here on the list because it measures the time to compute the 309th line of a very slow and deep arbitary-precision mandelbrot that took several hundred hours to get to that line. I sent the benchmark image to Pedro who will run it on an AMD Athlon and he will post the results tomorrow. (Running it in batch mode with savetime=-1 will time the line regardless of how long it takes, as savetime only saves at end of the row - a very handy feature for setting the showdot at the beginning of a line and on the next batch run - timing a line.) Lee