Hi mate, Still getting 500+ ppd on your dual clients, so not such a great deal less than the SMP was going to give you. I had similar problems, so I suggest you formally un-install the SMP client and the VMWare player, as you end up with a couple of processes running forever with SMP unless you actively unistall them, or stop them in the control panel/services. There are two services for SMP and a load more for VMPLayer, but I'm not sure which ones they are. Better to clean them out using the uninstallers to leave only the pure client processes and cores in action. Craig...