yep, thats essentially what I've told him. get a dual proc board as the software he is using supports dualies. he'll see more benefit that way. if it DIDN"T support it, then that would be a different story. However, things like what he's using, studio max, SQL, autocad, etc are cpu and memory ('specially sql) dependent. sql will eat up all available memory with the exception of system needed memory and will release back only what is needed.